264 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION D. 
Following is the most complete list of Pitcairn Island plants 
available. It is taken from Beechey, I., 106, 119, 130, &c.:— 
Banana ( Musa sapientum ) Tee ( Dracana terminalis ) 
Plantain (Musa paradisaica ) Cloth-plant 
Melons and Pumpkins Sugar-cane 
Yam (Dioscorea sativa) (a) Ginger 
Taro (Caladium esculentunc) (6) Turmeric 
Potatoes No bamboo on the island 
Sweet Potato (15, LOT) 
Arum costatum (c¢) “Tobacco 
2. The Botany of Captain Beechey’s Voyage, &c., by W. J. 
Hooker and G. A. W. Arnott, 1832-1840. 
At Part II., p. 59, the plants collected at the Society Islands 
(including, amongst others, Pitcairn Island) are described, but 
“as many of the plants appear common to the whole group, we 
have rarely thought it necessary to mention the particular 
stations of the species.” Pitcairn Island is not further men- 
tioned, so that it is impossible to say what plants were gathered 
upon it. 
3. Wood, Capt. James, of H.M.S. “ Pandora.” Report dated 
July, 1849. Lady Belcher, at p. 225 of her work, quotes Cap- 
tain Wood’s report, which contains the following list of plants 
observed at Pitcairn :— 
Pandanus Orange 
Banyans Lime 
Cocoa (nut). ‘“Vhe” tree, ‘‘ but it is now 
Breadfruit (a very large tree) very scarce.” (Can this be 
A fern the Vi, Spondias dulcis /— 
The Mountain Plantain J.H.M.) 
Some species of Acacia (sic) 
4. Waldeerave, Capt. W., R.N. Recent Accounts of the Pit- 
cairn Islanders. Journ. Roy. Geog. Soc., II., 156 (1838). 
Comm., John Barrow, 1833. 
Mr. Barrow’s communication includes three contributions :— 
1. Journal of Hon. Capt. Waldegrave, of H.M.S. “ Seringa- 
patam.” He obtained a list of plants found on the island in 
March, 1830, and compiled by Mr. Andrew Mathews, late Chief 
(a) Beechey, i., 119, says the yams are made into “‘pillihey” (cakes); doubtless the 
same word as ‘‘ pill-eye’’ used by me (‘‘ Observations on the Vegetation of Lord Howe 
Island,”’ Proc. Linn. Soc., 1898, 155) for a dish mainly composed of sweet potato. 
(b) Caladium antiquorum. 
(c) Probably a form of Colocasia antiquorum. It cannot well be Arum costatum, Wall: 
a synonym of Arisema costatum, Mart: a Nepalese plant figured by Wallich. As regards 
the vernacular name of this plant, Beechey spells it in no less than three different ways— 
Appai, Yappai, Yappe. Ape is the Tahitian name according to Guppy. Ellis (‘‘ Poly- 
nesian Researches,”’ i., 358) speaks of a large kind of Arum called Ape (Arum costatum), 
which is frequently planted in the dry ground; itis also used in some seasons, but is 
considered inferior to the Taro. 
