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kind in which the ovules develop into seeds, rendering it probable that this kind is the parent of all the 
others. Leaves with even surface. 
9. Uto rokouta.—Known by that name at Namara, near Bau. Leaves bullate, giving the tree a sickly 
look. ; 
10. Uto balekana.—Known by that name in the Straits of Somosomo and at Ovalau. Leaves with 
even surface; fruit small, but of superior quality, according to the natives. 
11. Uto qio.—Known by that name in Ovalau. Fruit almost as large as that of Ufo buco. “Qio” 
is the name for shark, and was probably given to this fruit from its surface resembling in roughness that 
of the fish. E 
12. Uto vono.—Known by that name at Somosomo. Leaves with even surface, and very large; fruit 
largish. 
III. LEAVES BIPINNATIFID. 
13. Uto kalasai.—Known by that name in Rewa, and by that of Uto sawesawe in the Straits of Somo- 
somo. The leaves, especially when the plant is young, are distinctly bipinnatifid, in which respect this 
kind differs from all others; fruit, according to natives, rather oblong and covered with prickles. Also col- 
lected in Tahiti (Banks and Solander! in Mus. Brit.). 
Ll 
Of the following I know nothing, save the names, taken partly from Hazelwood's Fijian Dictionary, 
partly from a list of breadfruits known at Ovalau, and kindly communieated by the late Mr. Binner, of 
Levuka. Most of them will doubtless prove synonyms of those enumerated above :—Draucoko (=Coko- 
eoko ?), Bucotabua Utoga (— Koqo), Waisea, Utoloa (— Uto lolo ?), Matavesi, Dregadrega (N.B. Drega is 
the name of the gum issuing from the stem), and Buco uvi. The *Bueudo" of Wilkes's Narrative is probably 
RR Buco, though he mentions the latter name spelt * Umbuda;" but what can be meant by his 
“ Botta-bot "7 
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The variety which Forster figures, and of which specimens from Tahiti are preserved at the British 
Museum, has pinnatifid, deeply-cut leaves, with long, narrow segments, I did not meet with in Viti; but 
my var. bipinnatifida was collected in Tahiti by Banks and Solander. Tahiti—indeed, the whole Society 
Islands—seem to be the place where the greatest number ‘of varieties are to be found, Solander enume- 
rating twenty-one, and G. Bennett (Gatherings of a Naturalist, p. 396) even as many as twenty-four, all 
of which bear distinetive names.  Tahitian traditions hint at a time when the tree did not exist in the 
Society Islands, —at least that I suppose to be implied in the following, which I take in substance from 
Ellis's * Polynesian Researches ;'—* In the reign of a certain king, when the people ate red earth, a man 
had an only son, whom he loved tenderly. One day he said to the wife, ‘I pity our son; he is weak and 
unable to eat the red earth. I will die, and become food for him.’ "The wife asked, * How will you bécome 
food ?' He answered, ‘I will pray to my god ; he has power, and will enable me to do it Accordingly he 
repaired to the family marae (temple), and presented his petition to the deity. A favourable answer having 
been given to his' prayer, he called his wife and said, * When I am dead, take my body ; plant my head in 
one place, my heart and stomach in another, etc., and then wait in the house. When you shall hear at first 
a sound like that of a leaf, then of a flower, afterwards of an unripe, and at last of a ripe round fruit falling 
on the ground, know that it is I who have become food for our son. He died soon after, and his wife 
cbeyed his injunctions. After a while, she heard a leaf fall; then the large scales of the flowers; then a 
smali unripe, and afterwards one full-grown and ripe fruit. By this time, it was daylight; she awoke her 
son, and took him out. They beheld a large and handsome tree, clothed with broad shining leaves, and 
loaded with breadfruit. She directed him to gather a number, take the first to the family god and to the 
king; to eat no more red earth, but to roast and eat the fruit of the tree growing before them." 2 
XIX. Trophis, P. Browne, Jam. p. 375. t. 37; Trécul, Aun. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. vol. viii. p. 146. 
Flores dioici. Fl. g : Perigonium 4-fidum, laciniis valvatis, Stamina 4, perigonii foliolis opposita ; 
filamenta filiformia, in zstivatione inflexa ; anthere rotundato-cordatw, introrse, 2-loculares, loculis 
dorso connectivo crassiusculo adnatis, rima longitrorsum apertis. Pistilli rudimentum breve, subob- 
