Show quaint fijian plant thare la Is nothing under the sun eun so quaint so weird and al a the prairies of fiji ohp pan danns or screw plant as it it ier called ca ailed Is a most grotesque specimen of tho the vegetable kingdom even at th beat and in the early stages of its growth in its very young days it is of an extraordinary shape and looks as though some unkind hand band biad taken hold of its long leaves and twisted them round and round mund later on it straightens out a bit and from it grow a number of tall wooden stilts its foliage Is ie simple a number of drooping ragged tufts for all the corli liko mops and very mournful looking among these mope hangs the fruit in shape like ille a pine apple made up of hard red and yellow kernels woody and fibrous and quite uneatable from a europeans point M 0 view |