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Other edible fruits, some of delicious flavour, are met 

 with throughout the group, either perfectly wild or in 

 a state of cultivation. Most of them have been in Fiji 

 from time immemorial, and only a few, such as the pine- 



witli a smooth surface, and supported on stalks, four or five inches long, 

 nodding from the first. 



3. Uto buco. Known by that name throughout the group. Leaves with 

 an even surface. Fruit ovate obtuse, larger than that of most sorts, des- 

 titute of seeds, and with a smooth surface when ripe. 



4. Uto Jcoqo. Known by this name throughout the group, but in some 

 dialects called Oqo and Qoqo. Leaves bullate ; fruit without seeds, and 

 as large as that of Uto dina, smooth on surface. 



5. Uto votovoto. Known under this name throughout the group. Leaves 

 with an even surface ; fruit oblong without seeds, and covered with prickles 

 three-quarters of an inch long. 



6. Uto varaqa. Known by this name in Rewa and Bau ; Uto varaJca 

 in some dialects. Leaves larger than those of any other kind ; fruit 

 roundish, of middle size, without seeds, and with a rough surface. 



7. Uto boJcasi. Known by that name in Rewa and Ovalau. Leaves with 

 even surface ; fruit obovate, with a smooth surface, without seeds, erect 

 when young, nodding when ripe, and arriving at maturity early in the 

 season. 



8. Uto sore. Known by that name in Eewa, by that of Uto valca sorena 

 in Ovalau, Uto asalea in the Straits of Somosomo, and Uto maliva at Nu- 

 kubalaon. Uto sasaloa may also prove a synonym. " Sore " or " Sorena" 

 signifies a seed ; hence Uto sore, or Uto valca sorena, is the seed-bearing 

 breadfruit ; the only kind in which the ovules develope into seeds, render- 

 ing it probable that this kind is the parent of ail the others. Leaves with 

 even surface. 



9. Uto rokouta. Known by that name at Namara, near Bau. Leaves 

 bullate, giving the tree a sickly look. 



10. Uto balekana. Known by that name in the Straits of Somosomo and 

 at Ovalau. Leaves with even surface ; fruit small but of superior quality, 

 according to the natives. 



11. Uto qio. Known by that name in Ovalau. Fruit almost as large 

 as that of Uto buco. " Qio " is the name for shark, and was probably 

 given to this fruit from the surface its resembling in roughness that of 

 the fish. 



12. Uto vonu. Known at Somosomo. Leaves . . . ; fruit largish. 



III. LEAVES BI-PINNATIFID. 



13. Uto Tcalasai. Known by that name in Eewa, and by that of Uto 



