Fiji Archipelago

Miller, J. M. 1988. A new species of Degeneria (Degeneiiaceae) from the Fiji Archipelago. J. Arnold Arbor. 69 231-236. 

The makaluvamines are a series of about 20 closely related derivatives that are similar to batzelline D and isobatzelline E. The generic term makaluvamine derives from Maka-luva Island in the Fiji Archipelago, where these sponges of the genus Zyzzya were collected (Radisky et al, 1993)... 

Ipomoea obscura (L.) Ker-Gawl., or obscure morning glory, is a slender climber common on fences. It is native to tropical East Africa, the Mascarene Islands, tropical Asia, throughout the Malay Archipelago, to northern Australia and Fiji. The leaves are cordate to 5 cm long and the flowers are infundibuliform and creamy white (Fig. 35). 

In Fiji, kava is known by a wholly different word, yaqona, which evidently has no affinity to the Polynesian term. In Fijian orthography, the letter q stands for the sound ng and hence yaqona is pronounced as yangona. Lester (1941) reports that the word qma was used on the northwest coast of the main Fijian island of Viti Levu to denote both beverage and bitter. He suggests that this may indicate that it was to this part of Fiji that kava was first introduced and that local people supplied the name yaqona which is now used throughout the Fijian archipelago. 

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