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affected parts. It is also recommended for coughs and 
colds, in common with an Acanthaceous herb inhabiting 
swamps (Adenosma triflora, Nees), which shares its aro- 
matic properties. The people of Somosomo declare 
that the leaves of the Vulokaka (Vitex trifoliata, Linn.), 
with which their beach is thickly lied, when reduced 
to a pulp by chewing, are employed by them for stuffing 
hollow teeth. The leaves and bark of another sea-side 
shrub, the Sinu mataiavi (Wikstremia Indica, C. A. 
Meyer), are employed for coughs, the bark alone for 
sores. 
Through a native connected with the Wesleyan mis- 
sion, I succeeded in purchasing a knowledge of the drugs 
employed about Bau for procuring abortion. It appears 
there are five plants which furnish them, two Mal- 
vacee, a Biittneriacea, a Convolvulacea, and a Liliacea 
—namely, the Kalakalauaisoni (Hibiscus diversifolius, 
Jacq.), a spiny shrub, growing in swamps; the Waki- 
waki (Hibiscus [Abelmoschus| moschatus, Moench), 
closely resembling the latter, and bearing large yellow 
flowers like it, but being destitute of spines, and inva- 
riably preferring dry ground; the Siti (Grewia pruni- 
folia, A. Gray), a small tree, abounding in the groups, 
and producing a fruit eaten by the Fijian bat; the Wa- 
vuti (Pharbitis insularis, Chois.), a blue-flowering sea- 
side creeper, and the Ti Kula, Te Kula, or Va sili da- 
mudamu (Dracena ferrea, Linn., var.). Of the Kalaka- 
lauaisoni, Wakiwaki, and the Wa buti, the juice of the 
leaves,—of the Ti kula, that of the heart of the leaves 
and surface of the trimk, are used. The Ti kula is held 
to be the most efficacious, and only administered when 
