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A BOTANICAL TOUR AMONG THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS. 
BY WILLIAM R., GUILFOYLE. 
Il. 
In Vavau's beautiful harbour we next dropped anchor. Vavau is the only 
one of the Friendly Islands we visited. "The a is an exceedingly pic- 
turesque place, and in this respect it may be second only to to Pango Pango 
in Tutuila. The scenery charmed me much, rome in all my rambles— 
and I believe that I walked over the greater portion of the larger islands of 
this group—I found nothing very rare or new in the way of plants. Vavau is 
less mountainous, the einig bring: more of an undulating nature than any 
of the other islands. I think it would be admirably adapted for the te 
heard of more than two. aving collected aes an soon obtained from 
which the natives cut into round pieces about three or four inches in diameter, 
with which mié play a game called **lafo;" Niumea, a very handsome variety, 
with a red ; Ninule,is the variety common throughout Polynesia, the 
nut is the same in size as the last, but of the ordinary colour, and is a re- 
markably strong grower. In a village about two miles inland I came across 
which is only 400 feet above the level of the vh Im with som e very fine spe- 
cimens of the beautiful Barringtonia iosa, w ih is not common in Vavau, 
but is met with very frequently in the Fijis ind the East Indies. Its com- 
ful of ornamental trees. The penn "a is ada covered for a considerable dis- 
tance with its large quadrangulate seed-vessels, which, while in the green state, 
for poisoning fish. About a mile from the burial-place I was not a 
t from. They ans apelangi " —** white man "—had put it 
here. Several varieties of the Orange-tree are plentiful about the villages, but 
the Tahi predominates. also a nd a Lime, the latter 
being the same species that I met with at the Samoas. The Carica Papaya, or 
* Papau apple” (often called * Mammey apple”) is very abundant here. Piper 
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