360 A MISSION TO VITI. 
the hair and for painting native cloth black, or mixed 
with a certain red earth to make a brown pigment. 
Amongst the lower classes it is employed for tatooing 
women instead of the juice of the Lauci fruit (Aleurites 
triloba, Forst.), resorted to by ladies of rank: the skin 
being punctured with thorns of the shaddock tree. 
Besides the Dammara Vitiensis, Seem., there are five 
other cone-bearing trees, all of which yield valuable 
timber, viz. the Kau solo, the Gagali, the Kuasi, the 
Kau tabua, and the Leweninini. The Kau solo repre- 
sents a new genus peculiar to Fiji, and growing abun- 
dantly in the southern parts of Viti Levu, where it 
attains from sixty to eighty feet in height and nine feet 
in girth. It has the appearance of the Yew,—dark, lan- 
ceolate leaves, about an inch long, and solitary nuts at 
the ends of the branches. The Gagali (Podocarpus po- 
lystachya, R. Br.) is common on the banks of rivers. It is 
never seen higher than thirty or forty feet, and on the 
Navua I noticed that during the season when the river 
overflows its banks, the trees must often be under water, 
as dead twigs, leaves, and herbage, carried down by the 
tide, were lodged in their crowns. The wood is pecu- 
liarly elastic, and would probably do well for keels of 
boats and schooners. The Kuasi (Podocarpus elata, R. 
Br.) is confined to the summits of mountains, and forms 
the chief vegetation of Voma peak, Viti Levu. Its wood 
is used for outriggers of canoes. Another cone-bearing 
tree is the graceful Kau tabua (Podocarpus cupressina, 
R. Br.), common in the mountains of the Indian Archi- 
pelago, and in Aneitum. Milne found it in Viti Levu. 
Its native name is derived from the wood (Kau), re- 
