_Legend attached to Creeper in the Samoan Isles._--Walpole, in his _Four
Years in the Pacific_, mentions a creeper of most singular toughness, to
which the natives attach a legend, which makes it the material employed by
some fabulous ancestor to bind the sun, and which they term _facehere_, or
_Itu's cord_, affirming that it cannot be broken "even by the white man,
clever as he is." Mr. Walpole certainly failed in his attempts to clear a
way through it. Will any of your botanical readers give me the proper name
of the plant? and also of the "Giant Arum," which the same people call the
king or chief of plants?