LIST OF PLANTS. 301 



Ficus nr F. theophrastoides. Seem ] viilgo " Tutubolo." Growing in plan- 

 tations . Probably 10 to 12 feet high. 



Ficus sp. . . vulgo " Uri." A tree eighty to ninety feet high, with buttress 

 roots. Growing on coral islets. 



Ficus sp. . , vulgo " Sii." A banyan growing at or near the coast and on 

 coral islets. Multiple trunks, some cylindrical and erect, others 

 plank-like and arching. Height eighty or ninety feet and over. 



Ficus sp. . . vulf^o " Chim." A banyan often growing on the crest of in- 

 land ridges. The multiple trunks are all cylindrical and erect, and 

 individually smaller than in the case of the Sii : they are also more 

 closely arranged. Height a hundred and fifty feet and over. 



Ficus "? vulgo " Ilimo." A tall forest tree over a hundred feet in height, 

 with magnificent buttresses. 



Artocarpus incisa, L. There appears to be but one variety of the Bread- 

 . fruit tree in the islands of Bougainville Sti'aits. The fruit is 

 stalked, seedless, and I'ough externalh% the leaves pinnatisect, wifli 

 smooth surfaces. Fruit ripens in August. Vulgo " Balia." 



Artocarpus sp. . . vvtlgo " Tafati." Perhaps a variety of the Jack-fruit Tree 



{A. integri folia). Sixty feet high. Fruit larger than the common bread- 

 fruit, but more in-egular in shape : seeded : edible. 



Fleurya interrnpta, Gaud. (F. spicata, var.) 



Elatostemma integrifolium, Wedd. 1 



Elatostemma 1 vulgo " Obu-obu." 



Procris integrifolia, Don 11 



Pellionia sp. . . 



Leucosyke an L. corymbulosa 1 Coast tree fifteen feet high. 



Pipturus velutinus, Wedd? v. P. argenteus] vulgo " Dilipoa." A tree 

 thirty to fifty feet high ; trunk partially ringed ; aerial roots. 



CONIFERS. 



Onctum Gnemon, L. vulgo " Mariwa." 



Gnetum sp. . . : vulgo " Eunuka." A tree sixty feet high, prominently 

 ringed. Kernels of fruits eaten by the natives. 



Casuarina angustifolia F. 



CASUARINE^. 



ORCHIDE^. 



Dendrobium hispidum, Piich. (fide F. v. Mueller). 

 Dendrobium sp. . . near D. dactylodes, R. hi 1 

 Coelogyne sp. . . 

 Cleisostoma sp. . . 



SCITAMIKEjE. 



Alpinia sp. . . vulgo " Karu." 

 Alpiuia sp. . . vulgo " Vitoko." 

 Alpinia sp. . . vulgo "Konkoku." 

 Costus or Alpinia s]) . . vulgo " Makisa." 

 Alpinia Boia, Seem ? v, sp. afif. vulgo " Pai-yang-pipiula." 

 Riedelia curviflora, Oliv ? vulgo "Kokuru." 

 Canna indica, L.] vulgo " Sati." 



Marautacea afF. Phrynio 1 vulgo " Sinoili." Flowers in two collateral pairs 

 in each spathe with linear bracts between the pairs. Ovary shortly 



