other Islands of the Pacific it is ahundarit, and may be easily 

 procured. 



*^ Other parts of the dracsena are also useful. The natives 

 frequently plant the roots thickly around their enclosures, 

 interweave the stems of the plant, and form a valuable per- 

 manent hedge. The branch was always an emblem of peace, 

 and in times of war, borne, together with a young plantain 

 tree, as a flag of truce, by the messengers who passed between 

 the hostile parties. The leaves, wove together by their 

 stalks, formed a short cloak, which the natives wore in their 

 mountainous journeys ; they also make the most durable 

 thatch for the sides and roofs of their best houses, are em- 

 ployed in constructing their tents in war, and their tem- 

 porary abodes during their inland excursions." 



The specimen from which our drawing was taken was 

 furnished by Mr. Lambert, in March 1834. 



It is propagated either by seeds or by truncheons of its 

 stem, which when cut down will throw up suckers from its 

 base, just as the Asparagus, when its early shoots are de- 

 stroyed in the spring, will continue to replace them by fresh 

 bourgeons from its bottom. 



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