Barrau 1962

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• 3.1 Introduction
  • Botanical and ethnographic information and vernacular names
• 3.9 Staple foods: root crops, bananas, breadfruit and sago
  • Root crops
  • Dioscorea bulbifera, potato yam, aerial yam, air potato (Dioscoreaceae)
  • Cyrtosperma merkusii (syn. Cyrtosperma chamissonis, Cyrtosperma edule), swamp taro, giant taro, P kakake, kakama, B wota taro (Araceae)
  • Summary
• 3.10 Green vegetables and figs
  • Saccharum edule, 'coastalpitpit' (in Papua New Guinea), TP, P pitpit, B naviso (Poaceae)
• 3.11 Nut and fruit trees
  • Pandanus spp., screw pines (Pandanaceae)
  • Pandanus tectorius (syn. Pandanus odoratissimus), coastal pandanus (Pandanaceae)
  • Pandanus conoideus, red fruit pandanus, TP marita (Pandanaceae)
  • Parartocarpus venenosa (syn. Parartocarpus involucrata) (Moraceae)
• 3.13 Other cultivated plants
  • Morinda citrifolia, Indian mulberry, yellow wood, P ialotri, Byelotri, noni (Rubiaceae)
  • Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Lagenaria vulgaris, Lagenaria leucantha, Cucurbita siceraria, Cucurbita lagenaria), bottle gourd, TP kambang (Cucurbitaceae)
  • Cucurbita moschata, pumpkin, TP pamken (Cucurbitaceae)
  • Cucumis sativus, cucumber (Cucurbitaceae)