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Show Queer Fijian Plant. There Is nothing under the sun quite so quaint, so weird and witchlike as the pandanus prairies of Fiji. The pandanus, or screw plant, as It Is called, Is a most grotosque specimen of the vegetnble kingdom oven at tho best and In the early stages of Its growth. In Its very young days It Is ot an extraordinary scrttwllke shape, and looks as though some kind of hand .had taken hold of Its long, swordllke leaves and twisted thorn round and round. Laterlt straightens straight-ens out a bit, and from It grow a number of tall wooden stilts. Its fo-Hago fo-Hago la simple, a number of drooping, ragged tufts for all tho world like mops, and very mournful looking. Among these mops hang tho fruit, In shapo llko a pineapple, made up of hard red and yellow kernels, woody and fibrous, and qtilto unpntablo from a European's point of vlow.. |