Report on the agricultural resources and capabilities of Hawaii . ^ lines of light and dark brown colors. Ipomaa Ixitatas (native Uala) is our sweet potato, and next to tareconstitutes the chief article of diet with the natives. They claim alarge number of varieties on the island, difiering in shape, color, andsize of the tuber, as well as in the color and shape of the leaf. Thisplant, like the taro, is still extensively cultivated all over the islands. Broussonetta jKipyrifera^ the paper mulberry, furnishing a bark forkapa cloth, has already been mentioned. (See p. 30.) Artocarpus incisa (nat
Report on the agricultural resources and capabilities of Hawaii . ^ lines of light and dark brown colors. Ipomaa Ixitatas (native Uala) is our sweet potato, and next to tareconstitutes the chief article of diet with the natives. They claim alarge number of varieties on the island, difiering in shape, color, andsize of the tuber, as well as in the color and shape of the leaf. Thisplant, like the taro, is still extensively cultivated all over the islands. Broussonetta jKipyrifera^ the paper mulberry, furnishing a bark forkapa cloth, has already been mentioned. (See p. 30.) Artocarpus incisa (native Ulu) is the breadfruit of commerce andhas accompanied the Polynesian race wherever it has gone. (PI. XIII,fig. 1.) In Hawaii, on account of its temperate climate, it has neversucceeded as well as farther south. It fruits from June to August,and this short season seems not to have justified extensive culture nor House Doc. No. 368. Plate IX. I I. Plate X. FLORA OF THE ISLANDS. 35 the propagation of numerous varieties as elsewhere, for only onevarietY is known in Hawaii against twent}^ or more enumerated inmore southern groups of islands. This one variet} is seedless andhence is propagated by cuttings. In recent 3^ears a seed-bearingvariety has been introduced from the Caroline Islands, and anotherspecies, known as the jack fruit {A. integrifolid) has been added to thecultivated fruits. Ramie {^B. tenacissima or nivect) has been intro-duced since the discovery of the islands and extensiveh^ cultivated, andseveral years ago the government of the islands offered a large prizein money for a machine which would successfully decorticate thisplant. Aleurites moluccana (native Kukui) is the candle-nut tree of the Eng-lish. The natives string the nuts on sticks and burn them for lightingtheir houses. The expressed oil from the seed is also burned in lamps,and used to mix with paints. From the juice of the fleshy coveringof the nut is o
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