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_ hot exclusively based upon the character o 
46 L. H. Gulick on the Climate and Productions of Ponape. ad 
having a dark green stem spotted black, the othet a very light 
een bark even yellowish. I think it is ‘palpably less acrid me 
actively narcotic than the P. methysticum of Kastern Polynesia. 
The natives make most extravagant use of it as a narcotic bev- 
erage. The roots are pulverized, water added, and the juice 
expressed through fibres of the hibiscus bark. Some chiefs 
drink quarts of this daily, yet the only results are a temporary 
drowsiness that passes away after a doze of an hour or two, a 
— appetite, and sometimes a slight nausea and gentle 
retching. Nothing is ever seen of the peculiar ee 
effect upon the cuticle reported as the results of ava-drinking on 
the Hawaiian Islands. I conceive that the peculiar narcotic 
principle of the plant may be less ce in this humid 
climate than in the dryer regions of the Pac 
The Artocarpus, (breadfruit) is the great Sadiebdecing genus 
to the eee + of Ponape. Without it they would starve, or 
be reduced to the dire necessity of slight labor for their suste- 
nance ; with, it no lords of creation are more independent. It 
ogt extensive groves, evefi forests. It is cultivated with 
all the little care it requires, and also grows wild over every 
portion of the island. e months of the northern summer are 
ose d is 
eee amie bear well two successive seasons; ahd: an excess of 
moist as well as drought very sensibly affects it.—I have at 
hand nothitig etiendad on this genus as studied where the spe- 
cies are more numerous than here; but I think the native classi- 
fication of it interesting. They distinguish three principal diyi- 
sions, which may perhaps be termed species, af vie od though 
fruit ; a classifi- 
cation song cannot but think more posal than that 
; and it may be re 
the coral ‘slated of Kast, if not West, Micronesia 
jarak. leaves of the oes number of vari- 
deeply incised, w 
