548 THE BOTANY OF FUNAFUTI, ELLICE GROUP, 



the Keeling or Cocos Islands, and that by G. Don,* based on a 

 plant collected by Forster in the Sandwich Islands, and I follow 

 Benthamf in considering them a synonym of 0. elliptica, Labill. 

 The Funafuti species (and it appears to be the only one) is the 

 widely diffused 0. horhonica, Gmelin. 



BORAGINEJE. 



CoRDiA SUBCORDATA, Lamk. — Kanava. 



See Tl. Vitiensis,' p. 168, also tab. xxxiv.; the plate appears 

 to be a little highly coloured as regards the flowers of a Funafuti 

 tree. It is the handsomest tree on the island; it is commonest 

 at Fuafatu. 



Bowls and dishes are made of this wood, for which purpose it 

 is much esteemed; also for the wooden boxes called " Turuma," 

 used for the natives to place in their canoes to store small articles, 

 e.g., matches, tobacco, fish-hooks, which are required to be kept 

 dry. The fresh wood smells like violets, resembling in this 

 respect the Myall-wood {Acacia x>endnla) of Australia. 



It is the " Tauanave" of Samoa, and the fruit is eaten in hard 

 times by the natives of that group. 



It is the "Nawanawa" of Fiji, according to Seemann, who 

 states that the seeds are eaten in that group also. 



TouRNEFORTiA ARGENTEA, Linn. — " Tausunu.'"' 



CONVOLVULACE.S:. 



Ipom^a biloba, Forst. (Syn /. Fes-caprce, Roth.) — "Fue." 



Seemann says the leaves are roasted and used for caulking 



canoes in Fiji. 



ACANTHACE5:. 



RuELLiA REPTANs, Forst. — DC, Prod. xi. 145. 

 Observed only on the northernmost islets. Opataia, an intelli- 

 gent native, gave the name as " Kisi Kisi." See Adenostemma. 



* General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants, iv. 99. 

 t B.Fl. iv. 310. 



