344 BOTANY. 



the recent leaves afford the most valuable sea-stock 

 of fodder for cattle that the South Sea Islands can 

 supply. 



Pitcairn Island. Society, Marquesas, and Sandwich 

 Groups. Native name ti. 



D. Sandvicensis. leaves erect, ensiform, emerging 

 from the root. Flowers small, white, and borne as a 

 panicle on the summit of the stalk. Fruit, three- 

 celled berries of a dark-olive colour. 



Oahu, Sandwich Isles. 



D. Sp. Herbaceous. Leaves erect and sword- 

 shaped. Flowers supported by a scape. Berries large, 

 of a rich-purple colour. 



Sandwich group ; native name uki. 



Loranthus Sp. This plant grows on the branches of 

 the Californian Plum Tree, and so closely does the 

 stem of the parasite resemble the branch to which it is 

 fixed, and so completely are they incorporated, that it 

 is almost impossible to say where the one commences or 

 the other terminates. The leaves are slender, cylindrical, 

 and succulent. The flowers are scarlet, fleshy, and 

 borne in superb clusters ; the filaments of the stamens 

 and the style of the pistil are also scarlet ; of the six 

 stamens four are invariably shorter than the other two. 



Cape St. Lucas, California. 



Achras sapota. Timor. 



Tacca pinnatifida.* South Sea Arrow-root. Leaves 



* Forster (Characteres Generum Plantarum Mans Australia) assigns 

 to this plant the class and order Dodecandria Trisynia ; (giving two 



