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leaves and fruit. The Tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum, 
Mill.), as a tropical production, is quite at home. The 
Cajan, pigeon-pea or pea-tree (Cajanus Indicus, Spr.), 
introduced from the United States, is cultivated success- 
fully. Its seeds, when young, make a tolerably good 
substitute for green peas, acceptable in a country well 
supplied with both wild and tame ducks. The Dra- 
lawa (Lablab vulgaris, Savi) grows in great abundance 
about Somosomo, covering whole acres of ground, and 
if not indigenous, has at all events become perfectly na- 
turalized in that and various other parts of the group. 
It seems to bear without interruption throughout the 
year, its numerous white flowers being always seen 
wherever the plant has established itself. The beans 
are extremely tender, and after having been boiled in 
water and salt, oil and vinegar will convert them into 
an excellent salad. A species of Dolichos was noticed 
at Levuka, in the garden of a French settler. Indian 
corn (Zea Mays, Linn.), termed “Sila ni papalagi” 
(7. e. foreign Sila), from its resemblance in habit and 
foliage to the indigenous Sila (Coir Lachryma, L.)— 
our Job’s tears—has as yet been raised sparingly, as 
the Fijians and Polynesians in general have never been 
accustomed to grow any grain whatever, and most of 
the white settlers are English, ignorant of the innu- 
merable uses to which the Americans apply it. There 
is only one rather inferior kind, a small yellow-grained 
one, and the introduction of the larger and better sorts 
would be a boon easily conferred upon the islands. The 
settlers sadly complain that their domestic fowls (toa) 
become wild, and instead of keeping near the houses 
