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A NATURALIST IN THE PACIFIC 



TABLE ILLUSTRATING THE DEGREE OF BUOYANCY OF THE SEEDS AND 

 FRUITS OF INLAND FIJIAN PLANTS (continued} 



Canarium sp. 

 sp. 

 Canna mdica. 



Citrus aurantium (3-4 weeks). 

 ,, decumana (i month). 

 ,, limonum (5 weeks). 

 ,, vulgaris, R. (6-7 weeks). 

 Coix lachryma (2-7 days). 

 Commersonia platyphylla. 

 Cordyline sepiaria. 

 Couthovia corynocarpa (a few days). 

 Cucumis acidus (a few days). 

 Cucurbita sp. (several months). 

 Cupania sp. 



Dammara vitiensis (7-10 days). 

 Dioscorea sativa (a few days). 



,, sp. 

 Dracontomelon sylvestre. 



sp. 



Elseocarpus sp. 



sp. (a few days). 



Eranthemum sp. 



Eugenia malaccensis (2-4 weeks), 

 effusa ? (4-7 days), 

 confertiflora ? (10-12 days), 

 rariflora (a few days), 

 corynocarpa (a few days), 

 rivularis (a week). 

 Fagrsea Berteriana (a few days). 

 Ficus HarveyH 



scabra j- (7-10 days), 

 sp. 



Gardenia vitiensis (4-5 weeks). 

 Geissois ternata. 

 Geophila reniformis. 

 Gnetum gnemon. 

 Grewia sp. 



Guettarda sp. (a lew weeks). 

 Hibiscus Abelmoschus (months). 



,, seculentus. 

 Hydrocotyle asiatica (months). 

 Ipomea batatas. 



,, insularis (nil or months). 

 ,, peltata (weeks or months). 



Ipomea turpethum (nil or weeks or 



months), 

 sp. (7-10 days). 



Lindenia vitiensis (weeks or months). 

 Maba sp. (7-10 days). 

 Macaranga sp. (1-2 weeks). 

 Melastoma denticulatum. 

 Micromelum minutum. 

 Momordica Charantia (a few days). 

 Morinda Forsteri. 

 Musssenda frondosa. 



Myli f*} (3-7 days). 

 Myrmecodia sp. 

 Nelitris vitiensis (a few days). 

 Nephelium pinnatum (a few days). 

 Ophiorrhiza leptantha. 

 Phyllanthus sp. 

 sp. 



Piper Macgillivrayi. 

 Pittosporum sp. 

 Pleiosmilax vitiensis. 

 Portulaca (lutea ? ). 



,, quadrifida. 

 Premna serratifolia. 

 Pritchardia pacifica. 

 Psychotria sp. 

 sp. 



sp. 



sp. 



,, sp. 

 Ptychosperma sp. 

 Rhaphidophora vitiensis. 

 .Sapotasp.| (afewdays) 



Scaevola floribunda. 

 Spondias dulcis (a month). 

 Sterculia sp. (seeds //, fruits months). 

 Stylocoryne sambucina (2 or 3 days). 

 Tabernaemontana (orientalis ?) (a few days). 

 Tacca maculata (nil or a few days). 

 Trichospermum Richii (a few days). 

 Urena lobata. 

 Veitchia Joannis. 

 sp. 



NOTE 5 (page 14). 

 THE INLAND FIJIAN PLANTS POSSESSING BUOYANT SEEDS OR FRUITS 



They come under the following heads : 



(a) Plants of the stream-border or the pond-side or of the inland 

 swamp, e.g.,, Lindenia vitiensis and Hydrocotyle asiatica. The extension of 

 the principle by which plants with buoyant seeds or fruits are located, not 

 only at the sea-side but at the water-side generally, is here involved, as 

 explained in Chapter III. 



