266 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 
crowded on a central receptacle; anther cells globose, attached by a connective; 
pistillode minute or wanting; female flowers with 2 to 4-celled ovary; styles free or 
growing together below; ovules 1 in each cell; fruit a capsule. Leaves lobed like 
those of a Vitis or of an Acer. 
The wood of this tree is soft and is used in Guam for making shoe lasts. The 
vernacular name is applied in the Philippines to another species of Mallotus, 
The present species is possibly 2. tiliaefolius ( Mallotus tiliaefolius (Lam.) Muell. Arg. ), 
which extends from southern Asia to the Fiji Islands. In Guam it is used medicinally. 
Eclipta alba. DYEWEED. 
Family Asteraceae. 
LocaL NAMEs.—Tinta-tinta (Philippines). 
A branching annual composite with inconspicuous white flowers, usually pros- 
trate or creeping, sometimes ascending or erect, | foot long or more, sprinkled with 
closely appressed short, stiff hairs; leaves shortly petiolate, from nearly ovate to 
oblong-lanceolate or almost linear, 2.5 to 5 em, long, coarsely toothed or nearly 
entire; peduncles in the upper axils solitary or two together, very variable in 
length, bearing a single flower head about 6 mm, in diameter; involucre of about 2 
rows of ovate, obtuse, herbaceous bracts; scales of chaffy receptacle narrowly linear; 
ray florets female, small, shortly ligulate, narrow, white; disk florets hermaphro- 
dite, usually fertile, tabular, 4-toothed; achenes of the disk with thick, almost corky 
margins, the pappus either quite abortive or reduced to a border of 4 minute obtuse 
teeth, conspicuous chiefly at the time of flowering, 
This plant is widely spread in the Tropies. In India a bluish-black dye is 
obtained from the juice of its leaves, and in some places it is used for tattooing. — In 
Ceylon it is employed as an alterative medicine by the natives. It was first. col- 
lected in Guam by Chamisso (1817) and afterwards by Lesson, the botanist accom- 
panying Dumont D’ Urville in the Astrolabe. It is found growing in wet places. 
REFERENCES: 
Kelipta alba (L.) Hassk. Pl. Jav. Rar. 528. 1848. 
Verbesina alba L. Sp. Pl. 2: 902. 1753. 
wclipta erecta LL. Mant. 2: 286. 1771. 
Eclipta erecta. See Kelipta alba. 
Eclipta prostrata. Same as Helipta alba. 
Eddoes. See Caladium colocasia. 
Edible senna. See Cassia sophera. 
Eggplant. See Solanwm melongena. 
Egyptian privet. See Lawsonia inermis. 
Ehretia buxifolia. Same as Ehretia microphylla, 
Ehretia microphylla. BASTARD CURRANT. 
Family Boraginaceae. 
Local NAMES.—Cha cimarron, Alafgitfigit (Philippines). 
A bush 90 to 120 em, high, branches very numerous, slender, divaricate, the bark 
reddish brown, cracked; leaves small, 6 to 25 mm. long, very numerous, sessile, fas- 
ciculate on suppressed branchlets, obovate-cuneate, acute at base, truncate with a 
few obtuse crenatures at apex, otherwise entire, slightly rough above with short 
bristly hairs (with a white spot round each when dry), shining and polished, paler 
beneath with conspicuous venation; flowers solitary or two together, on very short 
pubescent pedicels, axillary; calyx hairy, 5-parted, segments oblong-spathulate, 
acute, leafy; corolla campanulate-rotate, 6 to 9 mm, in diameter, lobes 5, ovate, 
subacute, spreading or recurved; stamens 5, erect, exserted, inserted on corolla tube; 
ovary 2-celled with 2 ovules in each cell; stvles 2, longer than stamens, undivided: 
drupe small, 6 mm, long, globose, apiculate, shining, scarlet, pyrene 4-celled. Flowers 
white. Collected in Guam by Luis Née, 1792. 
