376 A MISSION TO VITI. 
Jalapa, Linn.). Prince’s feathers (Amarantus cruentus, 
Linn.), and its congener, Driti damudamu (Amarantus 
tricolor, Linn.), have become perfectly naturalized in 
some districts. Attempts to grow the flowers of colder 
regions have not been so successful. Carnations are kept 
alive with difficulty; roses, though growing and bloom- 
ing freely, possess little or no scent, and are chiefly 
valued from the pleasing associations connected with 
them; dahlias were introduced in 1860, by Dr. Brower, 
but I have not yet learnt the fate that attended them ; 
a species of honeysuckle (Lonicera), noticed on the mis- 
sion premises at Viwa and Bau, concludes the limited 
list of foreign garden plants cultivated in Fiji, a list, 
for any additions to which the inhabitants would feel 
very grateful. 
The natives do not content themselves with merely 
looking at or smelling plants, but profusely decorate 
their persons with them: elegant-formed leaves, passion 
flowers, the bright-red leaves of the dracznas, or the 
bleached ones of the stemless screw-pine, are made to 
grace their heads or turbans. Great aptitude is dis- 
played in making necklaces (taube or salusalu), the ma- 
terials for which are principally furnished by monope- 
talous, white, and odoriferous flowers, strung upon a piece 
of string. I noticed those of the Bua (Fagrea Berteriana, 
A. Gray), Buabua (Gwettarda speciosa, Linn.), Vasa or 
Rewa (Cerbera lactaria, Ham.), and Sinu dina (Leucosmia 
Burnettiana, Bth. = Dais disperma, Forst.). The flowers 
of the Sinu dina, or as it is also termed Sinu damu- 
damu, are capitate, and the necklaces made of them are 
called “ sinucodo,” a term also applying to a chain. The 
