302 LIST OF PLANTS. 



stipitate, ovule erect. Fruit 3-locular, cells 1 -seeded, seeds with. 



crustaceous muricate testa. 

 Heliconia ] vulgo " Kiari." 

 Clinogyue grandis Bth and Hook 1 (near C. dichotoma and aflfs) vulgo- 



" Nini." 

 Scitaminea (dub) : vulgo " Temuli." A plant 1 to 1^ feet high growing 



in the waste ground of plantations. The roots have medicinal ])ro- 



perties, according to the accounts of the nalives, and they have a 



yellow juice which is used for staining. 

 Scitaminea (dubia) : vulgo " Nakia : " a wild ginger. 



AMARYLLIDEiE. 



Crinum sp. . . vulgo " Papau." Grows near the beach. Height four feet. 

 Curculigo sp. , vulgo " Bulami." Growing 2 to 2i feet high on the banks 

 of streams. 



LILIACE.'E. 



Cordyline sp. . . vulgo "Dendiki." Tree twenty feet high; growing near 

 the Coast. 



COMMELY NACE/E. 



Commclyna nud.lloia, L. 



DIOSCOREiE. 



Dioscorea sativa, L. ] vulgo " Alapa." 



JUXCACE.E. 



Flagellaria indica, L. var. 



TACCACE^. 



Tacca pinnatifida, Forst. : vulgo " Mamago." The natives do not appear ta 

 make use of the arrowroot-like starch obtainable from the tubei'S. 



PANDANACE/E. 



Pandanacea : genus novum,'( ^ flowers only and loaf collected). The only 

 locality where I found it was the summit of Faro Island, where it grows 

 to a height of fifty feet, and has along white female branching spadix, 

 tliree to four feet in length. The same, or a near ally, was obtained 

 by Signor Beccari in Jobi Island, off Kew Guinea. ( Vide page 289.) 



The natives distinguish several species of Pandanus trees, of wliich I 

 was only able to obtain the fruit. The " daraslii " " sararaiig," and " pota," 

 grow at the coast, and have a lieight of from thirty to forty feet. Tlie 

 "darashi " has narrow leaves, and, if the ground is not rocky, aerial roots 

 are olten absent : the fruit is smaller than tliat of the two other littoral 

 pandanus trees. The " sararang " has broad leaves, aud always aerial roots : 

 the fruit is often more than a foot in diameter. The "pota" has broad 

 leaves, with contracted acuminate apices, two ijiches long : the fruit is about 

 a foot in diameter : aerial roots are always present, and rise often fifteen 



^ I learn from Professor Oliver that Count Solius confirms the generic distiuctne s. 



