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slick on the Climate and Productions of Ponape. 47 
Socncipal Sharacteristic of this species is the roughness of the 
fruit occasioned by the pointing of the coherent sepals of each 
floweret. The number of distinguishable varieties of the maz’n 
jarak is astonishing. I have the namesof over fifty! Nor are 
the marks of distinction ray fanciful. They are principally 
found in the peculiar qualities of the fruit. 8. The Mai’n iwa 
Its leaves are both lacerated and perfect. The foliage and bark 
are less hirsute, and of a slightly lighter green than those of the 
main jarak, The fruit is more spherical than that of the mai’n 
In the fruit of the maz’n iwa the flowerets are more 
closely blended, both interiorly and exteriorly, than in either of 
the other species. From this results an extreme smoothness 
e rind, and a compactness of the fruit even to the very interior 
fibrous stem of the spike, that are characteristics strikingly dif 
ferent from the fruit of the maz’n jarak, where each floweret is © 
not only distinct at its free extremity on the surface of the fruit, 
ut also again at its base about the interior stem; and most 
especially different from the mai mat, where the degree of adhe- 
sion between the flowerets is at its minimum, there being scarce 
sufficient agglutination to connect the flow erets of a spadix into 
one point. The specific terms incisa and integrifolia, 1 would 
unhesitatingly reject. If the maz’n jarak be not already in- 
cluded in the species mee he hirsuta, (which I suppose not, 
from the two varieties of rough and smooth bread-fruited A. 
weisa being mentioned,) I wala suggest that such names be 
given to the three species as shall designa ate the differing de 
The Mangifera has one representative, in a tree that bears a 
fruit certainly not unpalatable on an island so destitute of tart 
fruits, but which is quite fibrous, and not to be compared to the 
Mango ndica. 
One plant of the genus Citrus grows wild. It bears a fruit 
about two and a half inches in diameter, which no one will be 
liable to confound with the Pomme d’Adam. Its rind is saree 
= aromatic when ripe, and very bitter. The interior is 
, and also somewhat bitter. I know ae ; whether it 
teen: designated as a C. aurantium, or C. bigarad 
Animals. 
- There are only three , Spee of indigenous Mammalia. 1. A 
J, NO ighteen inches in height and propor 
erect. Th e tail as it curves upward are 
peculiarly 1 long, “which gives it aa a bushy appearance. It is 
ion and as food for a degraded race of men, and as fuss 
nishing retreats for the lice their masters deem ‘ich, a delicacy, 
