THE POLYNESIAN AND HIS PLANTS
Identity of the problems presented by the indigenous plants and the
peoples of the Pacific islands.—The food-plants of the Polynesians and
the pre-Polynesians.—Their weeds.—The aboriginal weeds.—The white
man’s weeds.—Weeds follow the cultivator but are distributed by
birds.—The general dispersion of weeds antedates the appearance of the
Polynesian in the Pacific.—Weeds of little value to the
ethnologist.—Aleurites moluccana.—Inocarpus edulis, Gyrocarpus
Jacquini, Serianthes myriadenia, Leucæna Forsteri, Mussænda frondosa,
Luffa insularum.—Summary
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