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Yams (Dioscorea spp.).—Several varieties are cultivated by the natives; one 
species grows wild. They are planted in April, the soil having been previously 
dug deeply. The crop will be ready about December. The maturity of the 
tubers is indicated by the turning yellow of the leaves. Yams are left in the 
ground, to be dug as required for use. They will not keep like sweet potatoes, 
and are therefore not suitable for taking on long voyages. For methods of 
propagation see under Dioscorea alata. 
Yam-beans. Grow readily. 
Garlic. See Gardens. . 
Gasés6 (Guam). See Colubrina asiatica, 
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Gatae or Ngatae (Rarotonga, Samoa). See Erythrina indica. 
Gauay (Philippines). See Lycopodium cern. 
Gdnaygdnay (Philippines). See Agati grandiflora. 
Gdusali (Guam). See Cormigonus mariannensis. 
Gavo (Philippines). See Caladium colocasia, 
Gayé, Gadyé, or Gayi ((Giuam). See Lens phaseoloides. 
Gégé (Guam), See Ambulia indica and A, fragrans. 
Geophila reniformis. See Carinta herhacea. 
Gingelly, Gingelly oil. See Sesamum orientale; in Guam called ‘‘ajénjoli’’ or 
‘ahdnholi.”’ 
Ginger. See Zinziher zingiber. 
Ginger, wild. Zinziher zerumbet. 
Gingili. See Sesamuim orientale. 
Gleichenia dichotoma. SAVANNA FERN. PLATE L. 
Loca NAMES.—Mana (Guam); Asaua (Samoa). 
A fern growing on the sabanas, or upland, grassy regions. In some islands of 
Malanesia the wiry stipes are split and braided into baskets and into armbancs or 
other ornaments. In places where the sabanas have been burned over the stiff, erect 
stipes project a few inches above the surface, and often cause wounds in the feet of 
the natives, even when the latter are protected by leather sandals. 
REFERENCES: 
Gleichenia dichotoma Hook. Sp. Fil. 1: 12. 1846, 
Globe amaranth. See Gomphrena globosa. 
Glochidion marianum. CHosao. 
‘amily Euphorbiaceae. 
Local NAMES.—Chosgd, Chosgu (Guam). 
A smooth evergreen shrubby plant with alternate, oblong-elliptic, entire, shortly 
petioled leaves arranged in two rows, closely veined beneath and shortly pointed at 
sach end. Flowers small in axillary clusters, shortly pedicelled, apetalous, without 
disk scales or glands; calyx of both sexes of 2 large and 3 minute sepals, that of the 
female flower larger than that of the male; male flower without pistillode; anthers 
3, growing together in an oblong sessile column, female flower with 5-celled, globose, 
smooth ovary; styles growing together in an elongated, subcylindrical column, grad- 
ually narrowing from the base to the apex, 3 or 4 times as long as the ovary, the 
apex shortly 5-toothed; capsule depressed globular, finally 5-lobed. This species 
has also been collected in Samoa and in the Aru Islands.¢ Its wood is fine-grained 
and very strong, and is used by the natives for cart shafts. 
The type specimen of this species is from the island of Guam, where it was col- 
lected in 1819 by Gaudichaud. It was described by Muller of Aargau, first in Lin- 
«Warburg, Beitriige sur Kenntniss der Papuanische Flora, Engler’s Bot. Jahrb., 
vol. 18, p. 355, 1890-91. 
