340 A MISSION TO VITI. 
a burning pain similar to that ascribed to the sap of 
Malawaci (Zrophis anthropophagorum, Seem.). Milne 
(Hook. Jour. and Kew Misc. ix. p. 110) states, that “if 
you should be so unfortunate as to sting yourself, you 
will feel the effects for some months. I am suffering at 
this moment,” the writer continues, “from an accident 
which gccurred a monthago. There is no eruption ; 
but it is most painful when exposed to the influence of 
water.” 
The medicinal plants employed by the natives are as 
difficult, perhaps more difficult, to find out than the 
poisonous ones used for illegal purposes. Those who 
profess to be acquainted with their properties—often 
women, and answering to our herbalists—cannot be 
tempted by any presents to disclose secrets which to 
them prove a lucrative source of income for life. It is 
only the virtues of plants generally known that a casual 
inquirer has any chance of learning. The high estima- 
tion in which the oil of the Dilo (Calophyllum inophyl- 
lum, Linn.) is held by the whole population, as an effi- 
caceous remedy for rheumatism and other pains, has 
been mentioned in another place. The leaves of the 
Kura (Morinda citrifolia, Linn.), a middle-sized tree, 
with shining leaves and white flowers, not unlike those 
of the coffee-shrub, are heated by passing them over 
flame, and their juice squeezed into ulcers, whilst the 
leaves themselves are put on the wound as a kind of 
bandage. The bark of the Danidani (Panax fruticosum, 
Linn.), a shrub about eight feet high, and cultivated 
about the native houses on account of its deeply-cut, 
ornamental foliage, is scraped off, and its juice taken 
