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very small, green, in axillary and terminal panicled slender spikes; bracts usually 
shorter than the 8 sepals and utricle; stamens 2 or 3; utricle acute, indehiscent. 
This is the species most commonly cultivated in India. The tender succulent 
tops of the young stems and branches are cooked as a substitute for asparagus. The 
various forms growing wild in Guam are not much esteemed, but, like asparagus, 
would doubtless be improved by cultivation. 
Widely spread in the Tropics, growing as a weed in waste places, not cultivated in 
Guam, but like the preceding species used ax a pot herb when young and tender. 
REFERENCES: 
Amaranthus viridis L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 2: 1405. 1763. 
Amargosa (Spanish). See Momordica charantia. 
Amaryllidaceae. AMARYLLIS FAMILY. 
This family is represented in Guam by the indigenous Crinwn asiaticum; by 
Hypoxis aurea, which grows upon the savannas; and by the introduced tuberose 
( Polianthes tuberosa), the pretty pink-flowered Atamosco rosea, and the white spider 
lily. or ‘‘ seashore daffodil’? ( Pancratium littorale). 
Ambulia fragrans. 
Family Serophulariaceae. 
Locan Namkss.—Gégé, Guegue, Gégé sensonyan (Guam). 
A small, procumbent, very fragrant plant growing in marshy places and stagnant 
pools near the coast. Leaves sessile, oblong, lanceolate, serrate, with rounded sub- 
amplexicaul bases; calyx smooth, 5-parted, with lanceolate-subulate segments; strue- 
ture of the flower similar to the preceding species; corolla scarcely longer than the 
calyx, 
This plant is much esteemed by the natives forits aromatic fragrance. It is spread 
among the islands of the Pacific and in the Malay Archipelago, and occurs in north 
Australia. Gaudichaud was the first to collect it in Guam. 
REFERENCES: 
Ambulia fragrans (Forst. f.) Drake, Fl. Polyn, Frane. 140. 1892. 
Ruellia fragrans Forst. f. Prod. 44. 1786. 
Limnophila serrata Gaudich. Bot. Freyce. Voy. 448. t. 57. f. 2. 1826. 
Ambulia indica. 
LocaL NAMEs.—Gégé, Guegue (Guam); Inata (Philippines). 
A low, glabrous, aromatic plant growing in swamps and on the edges of rice fields. 
The leaves may be either all whorled and pinnatifid, 6 to 19 mm. long, or in wetter 
places there may be a few emersed opposite entire ones at the top of the stem and 
numerous multifid ones at its base; flowers axillary, solitary, pedicelled, rarely sub- 
racemose, the pedicels longer than the calyx; calyx 5-parted, hemispheric in fruit, the 
lobes equal, ovate, acuminate, not striate; corolla-tube cylindric, upper lip the outer 
in the bud, suberect; lower lip spreading, 3-fid; stamens 4, didynamous, included; 
style deflexed at the tip, stigma shortly 2-lamellate; fruit a capsule, seeds numerous, 
small, angular, truncate, reticulate. 
This plant is esteemed by the natives for its aromatic odor, which somewhat 
resembles turpentine. It was first collected in Guam by Gaudichaud. It is found 
in India, the Malay Archipelago, China, Australia, and tropical Africa. 
REFERENCES: 
Ambulia indica (1.). 
Hottonia indica L. Syst. ed. 10. 919. 1759. 
Limnophila gratioloides R. Br. Prod. 442. 1810. 
Amiga de noche (Guam). See Polianthes tuberosa, 
Amigos (Philippines). See Lycopodium cernunim. 
Amiray (Philippines). See Boehmeria tenacissima. 
