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or more species of drymispermum and lcucosmia, 

 locally termed sinu dina, sinu danu, and niataiavai, and 

 the peculiar scented uci salu-salu (evodia liortensis), 

 whose leaves when crushed emit a pungent odour 

 resembling peppermint. With the flowers of the 

 bua, sinu dina, mataiavia, makosoi (cananga odorata), 

 bua siu (lindenia vitiensis), some species of dolicholo- 

 bium, buabua (guettarda speciosa), jasminums, wa 

 vatu, the vasa (cerbera lactura), and hoyas, iva-bibi, tlie 

 Fijians make wreaths, necklaces, sashes, and belts or 

 bands. The sashes go over the shoulder, cross the 

 chest, and pass under the arm, and the belts are worn 

 round the body. The flowers are strung upon a 

 cord, made from the bark of the vau (hibiscus tilia- 

 ceus), or a bit of a tough climbing plant, and the 

 corolla tube of one flower is inserted into the corolla 

 tube of the flower next below it. Sometimes chaplets 

 wreaths, &c, are made of the wa kalo (lygodium 

 scandens), and the fronds of other delicate ferns, 

 artistically woven or plaited together, along with 

 the red leaves of dracsenas, and those of odoriferous 

 plants as the cevuga (amomum augustif olium) , or 

 a graceful mixture of foliage and flowers, is not un- 

 frequently used. 



The native, in ornamenting himself with gay 

 flowers, seems to study his own taste, and takes 

 delight in being adorned differently from his neigh- 

 bour. 



They also profusely anoint their heads and bodies 

 with oil to which a fragrance has been imparted by 

 the gratings of sandalwood, macoua, the bark of 

 cinnamomum pedatinervum, and some other species 

 of the same genus ; — The flowers of the maketa 

 (parinarium laurinium), makosoi, laga kali (my 



