60 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 
armed with hooked prickles and catches upon the clothing of men and 
the fur of animals, so that these plants are common along roadsides. 
Other wayside plants are the species of Sida, already mentioned, which 
the natives call *‘escobilla” (broom) and gather fresh each day for 
sweeping out their houses. 
The commonest grasses are Andropogon aciculatus, Capriola dae- 
tylon, Centotheca lappacea, Chaectochloa glauca aurea, Dactyloctenium 
aegyptiacum, Eleusine indica, Dimeria chloridiformis, Echinochloa 
colona, Eragrostis pilosa, Eragrostis tenella, Isachne minutula, Ischae- 
mum digttatiun polystachyum, Ischaemum chordatum, Panicum di- 
stachyum, Paspalum scrobiculatum, and Stenotaphrum subulatum. 
Associated with grasses are often found the creeping Commelina 
benghatlensis and Commelina nudiflora, and Zygomenes eristata, with 
scorpioid cymes of blue flowers inclosed in large falcate, inbricating 
bracts. 
Among the sedges are Carex densiflora, Carex fuircnoides, Cladium 
gaudichaudir, Cyperus rotundus, Cyperus difformis, several species of 
Limbristylis, Fuirena wmnbellata, Eleocharis capitata, EF. planta- 
ginoidea, Nyllinga monocephala, Mariscus albescens, and Leynchospora 
corymbosa. 
VILLAGE ENVIRONS. 
Besides the trees mentioned above as growing on the sites of aban- 
doned gardens many others are planted about the villages. Oranges, 
lemons, limes, citrons, shaddocks, and bergamots are common. In 
many gardens grow the pomegranate, atis, or sugar apple (Annona 
squamosa); laguana or soursop (Annona muricata); papaya (Carica 
papaya); Biva orelana, with burs resembling beechnuts and seed sur- 
rounded by a red coloring matter; coffee which vields abundant Crops; 
bananas and plantains of several varieties; vines of betel pepper (/7¢per 
betle) covering trees and walls; bushes of the fragrant henna, or *‘ cina- 
momo” (Lawsonia ‘nermis), which in Jamaica is called the nignonette 
tree; the oleander, crape myrtle, and scarlet hibiscus, planted for the 
sake of their flowers, and ornamental species of Phyllaurea, and of 
Acanthaceae and Araliaceae, planted for the sake of their foliage. 
Along the roadsides are fine mango trees; J/-/ia azedarach, the ‘pride 
of India,” bearing clusters of lavender flowers with dark violet stamens; 
the horse-radish tree (Moringa moringa) (PI. LVIII), here ealled 
‘“marunggai;” the silk-cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra), called **aloodon 
de Manila;” the leguminous Agate grandiflora, called “ katurai” (PI. 
V1), with edible flowers and seed pods; Posnciana pulcherrima, called 
**flower fence” in the British West Indies, bearing racemes of beau- 
tiful red and yellow flowers; the Indian almond (7erminaiia catappa), 
here called ‘‘ talisai,” a handsome tree with a straight trunk, whorls of 
horizontal branches, and large, glossy, deciduous leaves, which turn 
red before falling off. 
