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Baker, — A Synopsis of the 
N. S. V, 64. Stolopiferous, with a cylindrical trunk, like that 
of M. sapientum. Leaves oblong, 5-6 ft. long, 1 \-2 ft. broad, 
bright green ; petiole 1 |-2 ft. long. Panicle drooping ; upper 
bracts oblong, 3-4 in. long, lower much longer. Flowers 
10-20 to a bract. Calyx i-i| in. long, shortly 5-lobed ; 
outer lobes lanceolate, inner shorter, oblong. Petal ovate- 
lanceolate, l in. long. Fruits quite cylindrical when dry, 
without any angle, straight, coriaceous, under an inch in 
diameter, obtuse at the apex, narrowed suddenly to a slender 
stipe 1 J-2 in. long. Seeds grey, subglobose, in. diam., 
angled in the lower half. Queensland : Mount Elliot, Rock- 
ingham Bay, &c., Herb. F. Mueller ! Very like sapientum in 
stem and leaf, but totally different in fruit. It yields a fibre of 
poor quality. 
21. M. Fehi (Bertero), Vieill. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 1861, 46; M. Fei, 
Nadeaud, FI. Tahiti (1873), 39. Stoloniferous. Trunk cylin- 
drical, 15-20 ft. long, greenish, full of violet juice. Leaves 
larger and firmer in texture than in M. sapientum and para- 
disiaca, with stouter veins ; midrib green ; base unequally 
rounded; petiole i-i| ft. long. Panicle long, erect, slightly 
curved only at the base. Flowers 6-8 in a cluster, sessile. 
Calyx with 5 unequal lobes, split finally nearly to the base. 
Petal short. Fruits many in a bunch, oblong, angled, 5-6 in. 
long by above an inch in diameter, nearly straight, yellow 
when ripe, with a thick skin and moderately firm pulp, not 
very palatable when raw, but excellent when cooked. Seeds 
small, dull black. Common in the forests of Tahiti, where it 
is largely used for food, seedless at the low levels, but bearing 
seeds at an altitude of 3000-3600 feet. Native name Fei. Found 
also sparingly by Vieillard in New Caledonia. Native name 
Daak. We have a young plant at the present time in the 
Kew collection. Probably the Fijian M. See?nanni , F. Muell. 
Fragm. IX, 190 (name only), of which a photograph, sent by 
Sir John Thurston, is reproduced Gard. Chron. 1890, II, 162, 
fig. 28, is the same species. This is M. Uranoscopos, Seem. FI. 
Vit. 290, and M. Troglodytarum , Kurz, in Journ. Agric.-Hort. 
Soc. Ind. N. S. V, 163, in part. We have also leaves from the 
Rev. T. Powell of a plant from Samoa called Laufoo which 
probably belongs here. 
