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blunt; stamens 5, included, inserted above the middle of the corolla-tube; filaments 
longer than the anthers, puberulous below, entire, or bearing a tooth above the base; 
berry ovoid-oblong. 
The odor of the flowers is very penetrating. At a distance it resembles that of 
valerian, but at close range it is rank and overpowering, whence the name Cesfrum 
foetidissimum applied to this species by Jacquin. This plant is of West Indian origin; 
it is widely cultivated in the Tropics. It was introduced into Guam many years ago 
from the Philippines. A large bush of it grows on each side of the door of the 
church at Agafia, the odor from which at night is diffused over the greater part of 
the city. 
REFERENCES: . 
Cestrum nocturnum L, Sp. Pl. 1: 191. 1753. 
Cestrum pallidum. INKBERRY. 
Local NAMEs.—Tintan-China, i. e., ‘‘ Chinese-ink berry’? (Guam). 
A glabrous shrub 1.5 to 2.5 meters high. Branches terete; leaves alternate, ellip- 
tical-oblong or oblong-ovate, blunt-pointed, petiolate, green above, paler beneath, 
glabrous, 5 to 10 em. long by 3.5 em. broad; racemes cymose, with rather long 
peduncles, axillary and terminal; flowers nearly sessile, small, about 12 mm. long; 
corolla tubular, clavate, the lobes very short, rounded, recurved; stamens 5 or 6, 
included, alternating with the corolla lobes, inserted near the throat, filaments 
usually about as long as the anthers; pistil 1, style long and slender, slightly 
exserted, stigma capitate; berry ovoid, fleshy, about the size of a poke berry, filled 
with purple juice, few-seeded; calyx campanulate, 5-toothed, the teeth short and 
rounded, ciliolate. 
Iam not quite certain as to the identity of this plant. It corresponds very closely 
with the description given by Grisebach of Cestrum pallidum Lam.© In Guam the 
flowers are white. They are day-blooming and have a slight fragrance of C. noctur- 
num. In De Candolle’s Prodromus it is stated that the berries are poisonous, but 
this is probably a mistake, since they are an important article of food for the pigeons 
and other fruit-eating birds of Guam, by means of which the plant has been spread 
all over the island. It is of comparatively recent introduction. None of the early 
collectors mention it. The berries of the allied Cestrum lanatum of Mexico yield a 
black dye. 
REFERENCES: 
Cestrum pallidum Lam. Eneye. 1: 688, 1783. 
Ceylon moss. See Gracilaria confervoides under Algae. 
Cha. The name in (cuam for tea. 
Cha cimarron (Philippines). See Khretia microphylla, 
Chaca (Guam), Nephrolepis acuta. See under Ferns. 
Chaetochloa glauca aurea. GOLDEN FOXTAIL. 
Family Poaceae. 
A pale-green, erect, annual grass, having a simple, dense, cylindrical, spike-like 
panicle. Spikelets articulated on very short pedicels, 1 or 2 flowered, ovate; glumes 
awnless; first empty glume short; flowering glume and palea obtuse, finally hard 
and shining or tranversely wrinkled; numerous involucral bristles under each 
spikelet. A cosmopolitan grass with flat leaves scabrous on the edges and often ciliate 
with a few long hairs, common in waste places and in the borders of cultivation; 
good for fodder. Collected in Guam by Lesson. 
REFERENCES: 
Chaetochloa glauca aurea (Hochst. ). 
Setaria aurea Hochst. A. Br. Flora. 24: 276, 1841. 
Setaria glauea aurea K. Sch. in K. Sch. & Laut., Fl. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. in 
der Stidsee 180. 1901. 
a@Grisebach, Flora of the British West Indies, p. 443, 1864. 
