DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF PLANTS. 
In the following catalogue the Guam names and those of the Hawaiian 
and Samoan Islands are taken chiefly from the manuscript notes of the 
author, His list of the vernacular names of the plants growing in 
Guam is supplemented by the lists of several Spanish governors of the 
island in official reports to the captain-general of the Philippines, 
copies of which were found in the archives of Agafia, and also by the 
names cited by Chamisso and Gaudichaud in the reports of the botany 
of the expeditions to which they were attached. The list of Hawaiian 
names is supplemented by a number taken from Hillebrand’s Flora of 
the Hawaiian Islands, and that of the Samoan names from Rey. Thomas 
Powell’s list of Samoan plants and their vernacular names published 
in Seemann’s Journal of Botany, 1868, and Rev. George Pratt’s 
Grammar and Dictionary of the Samoan Language, 1893. The Philip- 
pine names have been taken from Padre Blanco’s Flora de Filipinas and 
Padre Mercado’s Libro de Medicinas, supplemented by Mr. Merrill's 
Dictionary of the Plant Names of the Philippine Islands, 1903; the 
Fijian names from Seemann’s Flora Vitiensis; the Tahitian names 
from Drake.del Castillo’s Flore de la Polynesie Francaise; the Mexican 
names from Dr. Edward Palmer’s manuscript notes and from Dr. José 
Ramirez’s Sinonomia vulgar y cientifica de las Plantas Mexicanas, 
1902; the Panama names from Seemann’s Flora of the Isthmus of 
Panama, published in the Botany of the Voyage of the Herald, 1852 
— to 1857; and the Porto Rico names from Cook and Collins’s Economic 
plants of Porto Rico, supplemented by the first part of Urban’s Flora 
Portoricensis, in Symbolae Antillanae, 1903. 
The Guam names are pronounced in general according to the conti- 
nental method, the vowels having more or less resemblance to those 
of the German and Italian languages, and the consonants being like 
those of the English. It must be observed, however, that ¢ is always 
hard, as in the English word ‘‘ go,” except in the combination ng; h 
is always aspirated, even at the end of a syllable, very much like the 
German ch in ‘tach” (‘‘ahgao,” the name of a tree, is pronounced 
‘“‘ahh-gao”); fi is like the Spanish letter in the word ‘* cafion,” or ni 
in the English word ‘‘onion;” fg is like ng in the English word 
**song” (not like ng in ‘‘finger”); y is always a consonant, pro- 
nounced like the English letter j (‘‘hayo” or ‘‘hayu” (wood), corre- 
sponding to the Malayan ‘*kayu,” is pronounced ‘‘hajyu”). The 
Chamorro vowels e and i are frequently confused by the natives, as 
in the name for taro, ‘Ssune” or “suni;” and the same is true of u 
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