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‘TACCACE. 
Tacca pinnatifida, Linn.: Yields an arrowroot. 
DI0SCORIDE#. 
5. Dioscorea sativa, Linn.: “ Arrowroot.” The common yam. 
LILIACE®. 
Cordyline (Dracena) terminalis, Kunth: “Ti.” Beechey (i., 130) 
speaks of its leaves as affording the common food of hogs and 
goats, and wrappers for cooking ; the root affords a very saccha- 
rine liquor, resembling molasses, which is obtained by baking it 
in the ground; the islanders also made a tea from the root. 
This is undoubtedly the best known plant of the island, and 
M‘Coy, one of the original settlers, who in early life was em- 
ployed in a distillery in Scotland, introduced the practice of pre- 
paring a fiery liquor from the root which was known as “ rum,” 
and which was the means of causing much trouble in the island 
for a long period of years. For an account of the distillation in 
other Polynesian islands see Ellis 1., 229. 
PALME. 
64. Cocos nucifera, Linn.: ‘Coco Nut Palm.” For an 
admirable account of this plant in Polynesia, see Ellis’s Poly- 
nesian Researches, 1., 364, et seq. 
PANDANE. 
Pandanus odoratissinus, Linn. f. Beechey calls this ‘ Pawalla.” 
The Tahitian name is, however, “ Fara,” the name “ Ara” being 
used over a wider area. See Wyatt Gill, p. 183. 
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CoMMELYNE. 
16. Commelyna sp.: ‘* Wandering Jew.” 
AROIDE®. 
Colocasia antiquorum, Schott. One of the cultivated forms of 
this species yielding the ‘‘ Taro” of Polynesia was sent to me 
under the name of Arum giganteum. Ante p. 264. 
CYPERACEX. 
18. Cyperus sp.: ‘* Cow Grass,” near C. hamatodes, Endl., but 
a poor specimen. 
GRAMINESX. 
10. Sorghum halepense, Pers.: ‘ Broom Grass.”’ 
Panicum sanguinale, Linn.: ‘‘ Ladies’ Grass.” 
Setarta glauca, Palis.: ‘* Fox-tail Grass.” 
55. Hleusine indica, Gaertn.: ‘* Dog Grass.”’ 
Oplismenus compositus, Palis.: ‘‘ Grass from Tonga.” 
