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roofs of their houfes : the male-flowers of this plant are flrewed on arts 



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the head in the fame manner as powder is ufed by us, and its agree- sciences 

 able fmell is reckoned a fine perfume for the better fort of people, 

 and called heenanno: the Banians have imported this plant into 



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Arabia or Temen, on account of its odoriferous male-flowers. 

 Forfkal believes they have only the male plant in Yemen, where it 

 is called keura ; one lingle /pike of its flowers is fold for about eight- 

 pence.* The morlnda citrifolia, has, in Taheitee, the name of 

 e-nono, and its fruit is fometlmes eaten by the lower clafs of people, 



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when they can procure nothing better : the roots of the tacca pin^ 

 nattfida, or, as the natives call it, peea ; thofe of the dracontium 



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polyphyllumy or teveh, and of the pferis grandifolia ? or e-nare, are 

 frequently eaten ; the fecond and laft only in cafes of neceflity ; 

 when the leaves, of a kind of purflane (portulaca lutea) called 

 e-atooree 'y thofe of a foianum or poorahatee, together with the 

 flalks of the boerhavia prociimbens, or enoona-noona are alfo eaten, 

 after having been baked: the roots ofthefweet potatoe, (convolvulus 

 hatatas) or e-oojnarro, and of the true yam (diofcorea data & op^ 

 pojitifoliaj or e-oowhe, are regularly planted, and ufed as the befl 

 eatable during the feafon, when the bread-fruit is not to be had : 

 the kernel covering the infide of coco-nuts, is likewife frequently 



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«--M ^ Forfkal Flora iEgyptiaco-AraVica, Havmse, 1775, 4to. page. i;js. 



