INDEX. 



439 



Pistacia terebintbus, 377. 



vera, tbe Pistachio nut, 346, 394. 

 Pistia stratiotcs, 395. 

 Pisum arvense, 386. 



sativum, 311, 386. 

 Plane-tree, or Platanus, 382. 

 Planlago psyllium, 405. 



major, 307, 310, 395. 

 Platanus Orientalis, 382. 

 Pleasant Island, a detacbed coral island, 



noticed, 68. 

 Plectrantbus crassifolia, 414. 

 Pleiades, constellation of, 93, 379. 

 Pliny, plants mentioned by, 395. 

 Plum, Prunus, 305, 384. 

 Plumbago, a species, on the Andes of Peru, 

 300. 



Capensis, 364. 



rosea, 364, 

 Plumei'ia, 363. 

 Plutarch, quoted, 383. 

 Poa annua, 311, 339. 



Poetry, aboriginal, of the Polynesians, 92. 

 — See Literature. 



Poi, or prepared taro, 69. — Poi, sometimes 

 made of bread-fruit, 95. 



Poinciana, 319, 326, 335, 361, 412. 



Pokomo Tribe, of East Africa, 193. 



Political institutions, of the natives of Plea- 

 sant Island, 68. — Of the Taheitians, 69. 

 —Of the New Zealanders, 80.— Of the 

 Tonga Islanders, and other Polynesians, 

 87. — Of the Hawaiians, 92.— Of the Ca- 

 lifornian tribes, and other "■aboriginal 

 Americans, 108, 285. — Of the Austra- 

 lians, 141. — Of the Feejeeans, 153, 154, 

 162, 169. — Of the Monomoisy, 196. — 

 Of the Galla, 212.— Of the M'Kuafi, 216. 

 — Of Hindoostan, 263. — Of the Battas of 

 Sumatra, 293. — Of a wild tribe in the 

 Malay Peninsula, 296. 



Polyandry, 270. 



Polyanthes, 348, 405. 



Polygalea;, of the Andes of Peru, 300. 



Polygamy, at Rotuma, 99. — At the Fccjcc 

 Islands, 153, 166. — Among the Ethio- 

 pian tribes, 213, 215. — Among the 



Arabs, 252. — Among the Indian Mus- 

 lims, 258. 

 Polygonum, 316, 328. 



aviculare, 307, 310, 396, 



nigrum, 310. 



persicaria, 312, 409. 



orientale, 409. 



fagopyrum, the buckwheat, 409. 



bistorta, 412. 



tinctai-ium, 412. 

 Polynesians, account of, 53. — Numbers of, 

 at the Feejee Islands, 86, 100. — Origin 

 of the Polynesian arts, 279. 

 Polytheism, 353. 

 Pomegranate, see Punica. 

 Pompeii and Herculaneum, visited, 271. 

 Ponderey Tribe, of Interior Oregon, 34. 

 Poena, a city in the Dekkan, 264. 

 Poplar, see Populus. 



Population of the globe, arranged by races, 

 276. — Of America, origin of the, 287. — 

 Emigration from Africa, 306, 

 Populus alba, 379. 



tremula, 380. 

 nigra, 380. 

 Porpoises, around an uninhabited coral 



island, 64. 

 Portulaca, 322, 327. 



two species, wild on the coral 



islands, 60, 64. 

 oleracea, 336, 347, 392. 

 Potato, cultivation of, communicated to the 

 maritime tribes of Northwest America, 

 24, 310 — and also, to the New Zea- 

 landers, 83. — Tlie potato, cultivated on 

 the Peruvian Andes, 231, 301. — Culti- 

 vated in India, and in Equatorial Africa, 

 345, 347, 363. — In Egypt, 411. 

 Potentilla supina, 408. 



Pottery, manufacture of, unknown among 

 the Polynesians, 98. — Practised by the 

 Feejeeans, 151, 154, 160. 



Precious stones, see Gems. 



Priva lappulacea, 338. 



Privet, see Ligustrum. 



Proas, of the East Indies, 282, 290. 



Property, among the Polynesians, 285. 



