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Hawaiian Planters' Monthly - Volume 6 - Page 425 -1887

The names of the various kinds of cocoanuts and their qualities are as follows : Niu Vai — Large .shells, 12 to 1G inches in circumference, used as water containers. Niu Ufa — From ... Niu Utonau — Known as Ihe sugar cocoanut. The husk is ...

Niu Lea — A dwarf cocoanut. It commences to bear when the trunk: is only 3 or 4 feet high, and it grows very slowly, and never attains a. great height. Niu Iiiiita — A profuse bearer, a single stalk having 100 or more nuts. Niu Utonau — Known .