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apple, the papaw, the custard-apple, and the Chinese 
banana, have been introduced of late years. The most 
prominent place among the native fruits undoubtedly 
belongs to the Wi (Evia dulcis, Comm., = Spondias 
dulcis, Forst.). The tree appears to be self-sown, and is 
met with in abundance about towns and villages. It is 
often sixty feet high; the bark is smooth and whitish, 
the leaves pinnate, glabrous, and of a dark green, form- 
ing a fine contrast with the yellow oval-shaped fruits 
with which the tree is heavily laden. The fruit has a 
fine apple-like smell, and a most agreeable acid flavour, 
rendering it highly suitable for pies; indeed, the Wi is 
the only Fijian fruit which recommends itself for that 
purpose. At Rewa I weighed and measured several 
highly developed ones, and found the largest to be ex- 
actly one foot in circumference, and one pound two 
ounces in weight. The natives are as fond of Wis as 
the white settlers, and quite content to make their 
dinner of Taro and Wis. The Dawa (Nephelium pin- 
natum, Chamb., = Pometia pinnata, Forst.) is more 
plentiful than the Wi; entire forests of it are frequently 
sawesawe in the Straits of Somosomo. The leaves, especially when the 
plant is young, are distinctly bi-pinnatifid, in which respect this kind dif- 
fers from all others ; fruit, according to natives, rather oblong and covered 
with prickles. 
Of the following I know nothing, save the names, partly taken from 
Hazelwood’s Dictionary, partly from a list of breadfruits known at Ovalau, 
and kindly communicated by Mr. Binner, of Levuka. Most of them will 
doubtless prove synonyms of those enumerated above :—Draucoko (= Co- 
cocoko?), Bucotabua, Utoga (== Kogo), Waisea, Utoloa (— Uto lolo?), 
Matavesi, Dregadrega (N.B. Drega is the name of the gum issuing from 
the stem), “Buco uvi.” The “Bucudo” of Wilkes’s Narrative, and is 
probably identical with Buco, though he mentions the latter name spelt 
“Umbuda;” but what can be meant by his “‘ Botta-bot ”’? 
