974 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 
hang in graceful tufts from the limbs of forest trees, the curious climbing Humata 
heterophylla (Sm.) J. Sm. (Pl. LIT1), with simple sterile fronds and prettily lobed 
and crenated fertile ones, and the glossy, divided Davallia solida Swartz (known as 
pugua machena) (Pl. IIT), which also climbs the trunks of forest trees and perches 
upon the limbs, associated with the species of Nephrolepis and with Phymatodes 
phymatodes (L.) Maxon. 
No Hymenophyllaceae have been observed in the Marianne Islands. 
Fern allies. 
The Ophioglossales are represented in Guam by Ophioderma pendula (L.) Presl, an 
epiphytal species which hangs from the limbs of forest trees like broad green ribbons, 
by the natives called ‘“‘leston.’? The only representative of the Marattiales recorded 
from the island is Angiopteris evecta Hoffm. (Pl. XX XIII), which grows in the 
woods in damp places, usually on the margins of streams. 
The Lycopodiales are represented by the epiphytal Lycopodium phlegmaria and the 
terrestrial L. cernuum. No Selaginella has been collected nor have any Equisetales 
or Salviniales been found on the island. 
Fetau (Samoa). See Calophylluin inophyllum. 
Fever-nut. See Guilandina crista. 
Fiafiatuli (Samoa). See Portulaca quadrifida, 
Fianiti ((;uam). 
A climbing plant with slender, pliable stems, used for lashing together the frame- 
work of houses; not identified. 
Fiber plants. 
Among the fiber-yielding plants growing in Guam are the following; those 
marked with an asterisk (*) are the most important: 
Abutilon indicum.—Stem yields a fiber suitable for cordage; not utilized in 
Guain. 
Agave vivipara?.—Called by the natives ‘“‘lirio de palo”? or ‘‘tree-lily;’’ leaf 
fiber used to wrap cigars and for thread. 
*Ananas ananas.—The pineapple; leaf fiber, twisted by hand, used for fine fish- 
ing nets. 
Annona spp.—Custard-apples; bark of young twigs tough, resembling that of the 
allied ‘‘papaw’’ of North America (Asimina trifoba); fiber utilized in the West 
Indies, but not in Guam. The strips of bark of Annona reticulata, which grows 
wild on the island, are used for temporary lashings. 
*Artocarpus communis.—The breadfruit; bark tough and leathery; inner bark 
utilized in several islands of Polynesia, and probably by the aborigines of Guam, 
for making bark cloth. 
Areca cathecu.—Betel-nut palm; in some countries the flower sheath used for 
‘aps and dishes and the leaf sheath for cups and bags; in Ceylon strong and 
durable water vessels made of it; not utilized for these purposes in Guam. 
Bambusa spp.—The shoots yield a fiber of which the Chinese make paper; in sev- 
eral countries matting is nade of the split stems; not utilized in Guam for fiber. 
* Boehmeria tenacissima.—The rhea plant, called ‘‘amahadyan’’ by the natives 
of Guam; grows wild in rocky places; not utilized by the natives for fiber. 
Ceiba pentandra.—Kapok tree; the flossy down surrounding the seeds used for 
stuffing pillows and cushions, 
*Cocos nucifera.—The fiber of the husk, called ‘‘coir’? in commerce, so much 
used for sennit and cordage by the Samoans and other Pacific Islanders, is little 
used in Guam, enormous quantities which could be utilized going to waste each 
year, 
Erythrina indica. —Called ‘‘gabgab”’ by the natives; bark yields a fiber suitable 
for cordage; not utilized in Guam. 
Gossypium spp.—Cotton was introdueed about 1866 by the Sociedad Agricola de 
la Concepcion, and laborers were brought from Japan to cultivate it, but the proj- 
ect proved a failure. It is now found in places by the wayside growing as a weed. 
