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ously throughout the year. The flowers are polygamous, race- 

 mose; the racemes are 2-8 inches long. The pedicels are 1-1.5 

 inches long, subtended by small bracts which are early deciduous. 

 The pedicels, bracts, and other parts of the inflorescence are 

 waxy white. The flowers are .7S inch in diameter and pure 

 creamy white, fragrant. The sepals and petals are not readily 

 distinguishable from each other; the inner sepals are petal-like. 

 There are 4 sepals, 4-5 lines long; the petals are 4, rarely 6-8, 

 oblong, 7-8 lines long. The flowers open one at a time. The 

 stamens are many, free or scarcely united at the base, filiform, 

 with ovate or elongate anthers ; the pollen is bright yellow. The 

 pistil is 2-3 lines long; ovary 1-loculed, with a single erect ovule; 

 style long, filiform; stigma, peltate. The ovary is pink or red. 

 The general color effect of the flower is creamy-white, with 

 spots of yellow and pink. There is an abundance of nectar. 

 The flowers are attractive to bees and other insects, which are 

 present in great numbers in the crown. 



The fruit is a globuse or ovoid drupe, with thin sarcocarp and 

 crustaceous seed-coats. It is about 1 inch in diameter, smooth, 

 almost fleshy, and yellow when mature. The embryo is thick, 

 with minute cotyledons. The dry fruit contains a large amount 

 of buoyant tissue, and the seed-coats are impervious. The seeds 

 are carried by the currents, and are often cast up on the beaches 

 in great quantities. The seeds contain the well-known domba 

 oil, which is used extensively in India and the East Indies for 

 lighting purposes. This oil enjoys a great reputation among the 

 natives of Polynesia ajid Hawaii, as a cure for rheumatism, pains 

 in the joints, and bruises. In tropical Asia it is also known as 

 pinnay, pun, cashumpa, or zvoondel. The oil is yellow green to 

 deep green, fragrant, and non-volatile ; it is very copious, and con- 

 stitutes 30-60% of the weight of the fresh seeds. It hardens 

 when cooled below 50° F. The Samoans use the oil as a remedy 

 for catarrhal affections of the eye. In Micronesia it is used for 

 skin diseases. The Fijians use it for greasing their bodies and 

 polishing their weapons. 



The oil should not be confused with the resin, Tacainahac 

 orienfale, which is obtained by incising the younger parts of the 

 trunk. This resin is pale yellow, inclined to green, slightly 

 translucent, soft and adhesive, of an agreeable odor, and an aro- 

 matic bitter taste. Its medicinal properties are analogous to 

 those of turpentine; it was formerly used internally, but is now 

 used only in ointments and plasters. Both the oil and the resin 

 were used medicinally by the primitive Hawaiians ; neither is 

 now collected commercially in the Islands. 



Among the white people in the Hawaiian Islands the kamani 

 is coming to be recognized as a valuable and beautiful strand tree. 

 Trees now standing are receiving much more care and protec- 

 tion than formerly, and many new plantings are being made. 

 The kamani is a noteworthy horticultural asset, and will be used 

 more and more extensively in Hawaii's landscape gardening, as 

 well as a source of handsome timber. 



