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these delicate younglings protrude from the base of the innermost 

 leaf. Day by day they unfurl till fully spread out in the sunshine 

 to do their work for food manufacture. All parts of the plant 

 are useful — the young leaves (called luilni or like) and flowers are 

 cooked and eaten as In an or greens. 



Lu'au is made from the delicate inner leaves of tlie kalo top. 

 The outside leaves were only used as wrappers around the bundle 

 of kalo when cooked in a native oven. As the young leaves are 

 picked in an unfurled state, those who wish to sell a poorer quality 

 of older leaves for greens are in the habit of carefully furling or 

 rolling them so as to imitate the genuine article. Since lu'au 

 was an essential part of every native feast, the term In' on has 

 come to be a designation for the feast itself. 



The older, outer leaves are designated la-clc. This is a short- 

 ened form of lau-clc, which is the obsolete original form, and 

 means literally a dark or brown leaf. These tough, weather-worn 

 outer leaves' are not suitable for use as food, as was indicated 

 above. They are used as food for swine ; may be put onto the 

 kalo field for fertilizer ; or may be used as wrappers around the 

 bundle of kalo when cooked in the native oven. When used as 

 fertilizer on the kalo patch they are called kipitlii. 



A KALO LO'I M'AIL)' ri.ASTF.D. 



Note tlic liuli iiKihiiii; the satiiriitcil soil; llic ('iiilmiikiiicnts ()V('i'<ri'<i\vii 

 with coar.si' (jra.sHos and wild Caiiiia. 'I'lic initiMliun w.ilcr ciitiMiicc shows 

 above center of [lictiiro, and exit near lower ri^ht hiind (drncr. 



