382 BOTANY. 



MONCECIA. SYNGENESIA. 



Cucurbita lagenaria. Bottle Gourd. Procumbent 

 and trailing. Flowers pale-yellow or white. Fruit 

 oval or globular, and of large size ; it has, when mature, 

 a yellow and very hard rind, which is used by the Sand- 

 wich Islanders for poe dishes and water vessels. 

 When applied to the latter use, the " calabash' 5 retains 

 the form in which it is grown, (although this is often 

 influenced by artificial means,) and its polished surface 

 is ingeniously carved with black devices. Society and 

 Sandwich groups. 



C. multiflora. Marquesas ; native name kateu. 



Sicynos, two species. The one species is a delicate 

 vine, provided with tendrils, and bearing a spinous peri- 

 carp ; the other is a very abundant and beautiful herb, 

 usually seen entwined around stronger vegetation, which 

 it covers and surmounts, whilst the jungle is bright 

 with the profusion of its scarlet blossoms. The species 

 sometimes grows on open plains, where, for want of 

 extraneous support, it trails over a great extent of soil. 

 The flower is destitute of odour, and is indebted for its 

 brilliant colour to a very ample calyx. 



Coast of California. 



DIOECIA. MONANDRIA. 



Pandanus tectorius et odoratissimus. Screw Pines. 

 These are palms which seldom grow higher than 

 fifteen feet. The leaves of the one species are long, 

 rigid, and sword-shaped, and armed with spines on 

 their margins : they are sessile, and as they grow in 

 a spiral direction, and their bases continue attached 

 after the lower foliage has fallen, they give the trunk of 



