DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 269 
rachis, which is not extended beyond them; flowers perfect or the upper staminate; 
scales compressed, minutely keeled, scabrous on the keel, the 2 lower empty, the 
others subtending flowers or the upper empty; stamens 3; styles distinct; stign-as 
plumose; grain loosely inclosed in the seale and palet. 
Common in Guam, growing in sandy places, associated with Dactyloctentum aegyp- 
fiveum and Capriola dactylon, A grass distributed widely in the tropical and temper- 
ate regions of the world, Common in North America. 
REFERENCES: 
Eleusine indica Gaertn, Fruct. 1:8. 1788. 
Enredadera (Spanish). 
A general name for climbers. See Climbimg plants. 
Entada pursaetha. Same as Lens pheaseoloides, 
Entada scandens. See Lens phaseoloides. 
Enteromorpha. See Alge. 
Eperua decandra. Same as Intsia Iijuga. 
Epidendrum fasciola. Same as Taeniophyllum fasciola. 
Epidendrum triste. Same as Luisia teretifolia. 
Epiphytal plants: 
Cyclophorus adnascens.— A climbing fern, with small simple, linear-lanceolate 
fronds. , 
Davallia solida.—A climbing fern, with glossy green divided fronds, 
Dischidia puberula.— An asclepiad, with small fleshy leaves. 
Humata heterophylla.—<A creeping fern. 
Luisia teretifolia.—An orchid with inconspicuous flowers. 
Lycopodium phlegmaria.—Growing in graceful pendent tassels. 
Neottopteris nidus.—The bird’s-nest fern. 
Nephrolepis acuta.—A fern with long, slender, simply pinnate fronds. 
Ophiodermis pendulum.— Hanging like ribbons from the branches. 
Piper sp.?.— A pepper called ‘ podpod”’ by the natives, mentioned by Gaudichaud. 
Phymatodes phymatodes.—A climbing fern, with leathery, lobed fronds, like an 
oak leat. 
Taeniophyllum fasciola.—An orchid. 
Vittaria elongata. —Ribbon fern growing in grass-like tufts. 
Eragrostis. 
A genus of grasses distinguished by having the inflorescence in compound or 
decompound panicles, spikelets 4 to 10-flowered; glumes imbricated in two ranks, 
the upper reflexed, with the edges turned back; stamens 2 or 3; styles 2, with 
feathery stigmas; seeds loose, 2-horned, not furrowed. Three species have been 
collected in Guam: Eragrostis pilosa, E. tenella, and E. plumosa, the last regarded by 
Hooker as a variety of the preceding species. See under Grasses. 
Eranthemum sp. See under Acanthacex. 
Erianthus floridulus. Same as Nipheagrostis floridulus. 
Eriodendron anfractuosum. Same as Ceiba pentandra. 
Erythrina indica. East INDIAN CORAL TREE. 
Family Fabaceae. 
LocAL NAMES.—Gabgab, Gapgap, or Gaogao (Guam); Dapdap (Philippines, 
Malay Archipelago); Gatae, Ngatae (Rarotonga, Samoa) ; Pifion (Cuba). 
A moderate-sized, quick-growing tree with straight trunk, which is usually armed 
with prickles when young, pinnately trifoliolate leaves and dense racemes of large 
scarlet blossoms: leaflets membranous, glabrous, the end one round-cuspidate, trun- 
cate, or broadly rhomboidal at the base; calyx oblique, spathaceous, minutely 
5-toothed at the very tip, finally split to the base down the back; petals very unequal, 
“See Flora Brit. Ind. vol. 7, pp. 315, 323, 1897, where these species are described. 
