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a number of upright growing shoots, each of which 

 has the dimensions of a tree of more than medium 

 size. In the mountains of Taviuni are many 

 fine specimens of the damanu (calophyllum bur- 

 manni) and dilo-dilo (calophyllum spectable, of 

 the U. S. exploring expedition), as well as other 

 kinds whose dimensions would equal either of the 

 cibicibi, vaivai, and vesi at Kabi. Trees of that size 

 are by no means rare in the virgin forest of Yiti 

 Levu and Vanua Levu, and the dahua (dammara 

 vitiensis), dahua saJu-salu (podocarpus vitiensis), 

 and lewinmmi (dacrydium alatum), may be added 

 to the list of large trees common in these two 

 islands, but not in any of the other islands of the 

 group. In the forests which lie between the wet and 

 dry districts, and also in the mountains in the wetter 

 parts of the latter, trees of the largest size are most 

 numerous. These forests are composed of prime 

 timber trees, such as dahua, dahua salu-salu, lewini- 

 nini, damanu, hau tabua, and several other sorts, 

 whose trunks will give an average diameter of from 

 1-J to 3 J feet on a length of about 40 feet. 



The ivi or " Polynesian chestnut " (inocarpus edulis) 

 is an interesting tree. It is rather larger than an 

 average sized English elm, frequently growing to a 

 height of about 80 feet, and in the outline of its head 

 and habit it is not unlike that tree. Its trunk is a 

 curiosity. It is deeply fluted or rather buttressed all 

 round, and a section of it would not be unlike a cart 

 wheel, minus the felloes; the buttresses, like the 

 spokes, springing from a central part resembling the 

 nave. The diameter between the extremities will 

 range up to 20 feet, that of the central part (nave) 

 perhaps a foot. The daiva (nephelium pinnatum) 



