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sort of food of Bread kind. I did never see of this Fruit any where but here. The 
Natives told us, that there is plenty of this Fruit growing on the rest of the Ladrone 
Islands; and I did never hear of any of it any where else. ¢ 
REFERENCES: 
Artocarpus communis Forst. Char. Gen. 102. 1776. 
Artocarpus incisa L. f. Suppl. 411. 1781. 
Artocarpus incisa. Same as -[rlocarpus communis. 
Arum, Egyptian (Italy). See Caladium colocasia; in Guam called ‘suni.”’ 
Arundo bambos. See under Bambos. 
Arundo tecta. Same as Trichoon rorburghii. 
Arungay (Philippines). see Moringa morimga. 
Arurti (Guam). See Maranta arundinacea, 
Asaua (Samoa). See Gleicheniu dichotoma, 
Asclepiadaceae. MILKWEED FAMILY. 
This family is represented in Guar by Dischidia puberula, a climber peculiar to 
the island, the widely diffused Asclepias curassarica, and the fragrant ‘mil leguas”’ 
(Telosma odoratissima), a garden climber of Chinese origin. 
Asclepias curassavica. CURAGAO MILKWEED, 
Family Asclepiadaceae. 
Locan NAmMeEs.—<Asuncion (Guam); Rosa de Francia (Philippines); Algodoncillo 
(Porto Rico); Wild ipecac (Hawaii) Blood flower (Jamaica); Chocholloxin 
(Maya of Mexico). 
A handsome milkweed, with orange-scarlet flowers, growing erect in solitary, lateral 
umbels. Leaves opposite, oblong-lanceolate, tapering at both ends; stem somewhat 
downy, simple, sometimes a little branched, growing from 30 to 90 em. high. 
The plant is of American origin, but has found its way to almost all tropical coun- 
tries. It is very common in Guam, growing in open fields which were formerly 
cultivated. Its root possesses emetic properties, and the expressed juice of its leaves 
is used as a remedy for intestinal worms. 
REFERENCES: 
Asclepias curassavica LL. Sp. Pl. 1: 215. 1758. 
Ash Pumpkin (Ceylon). See Benincasa cerifera. 
Asisio (Philippines). See Physalis angulata and P. minina. 
Asngod (Guam). See Zinziber zingiber. 
Asngod halom-tano ((ruam). See Zinziber zeruimbet. 
Aspidium. See leris. 
Aspidium dissectum and A. parasiticum. Same as Pryopteris dissecta and 1). 
parasitica, See ferns. 
Asplenium. See Friis. 
Asplenium cultratum Gaud. Same as Aspleniwin faleatum. See Ferns. 
Asplenium nidus. Same as Neotlopleris nidus. See Ferns. 
Asteraceae. ASTER FAMILY. 
Among the representatives of this family are Vernonia villosa and V. cinerea, [lo- 
phantopus scaber and Is. spicatus, Adenostemma viscosum, Ageratum conyzoides, [elipta 
alba, Stemmodontia canescens, Stemmodontia biflora, Artemisia vulgaris (‘hierba de 
Santa Maria’), Synedrella nodiflora, Glossogyne tenuifolia, and Chrysanthemum tndicuin 
(‘‘ manzanilla’’). 
See also Baum, The Breadfruit, reprinted from The Plant World, vols. 6 and 7. 
Washington, 1904. 
