DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 291 
Handaramai (Guam). See Pipturus argenteus. 
Haplachne pilosissima Pres]. Same as Dimeria chloridiformis. 
Haras (Philippines). See Foeniculun foeniculum. 
Hasmin (Guam). See Jasminum grandiflorum. 
Hasmin dikike (Guam). See Jasminwin officinale. 
Hayo or Hayu (Guam). Vernacular word for tree or wood (Malayan “Kayn’’). 
Hayun-lago (Guam). 
The name of an introduced tree, mentioned by Freycinet, signifying ‘foreign 
wood;”’ not identified, but evidently belonging to the Fabaceae. 
Hayun-mananas ((iuam). 
A tree given in the list of woods forwarded by Governor Olive y Garcia to the 
captain-general of the Philippines; not identified. 
Hayun-palaoan (Guam). 
Name of a tree in Olive’s list, signifying ‘“‘female tree’’ or “‘shewood;’’ used in 
house building; not identified. 
Hedge acacia. See Lencaena glauca. 
Hedge plants. See lence and hedge plants. 
Hedionda (Porto Rico). See Cassia oecidentatis. 
Hediondilla (Porto Rico). See Leucaena glaned. 
Hedysarum diphyllum L. Same as Zornia diphylla. 
Hedysarum gangeticum L. Same as Meihomia gangetica, 
Hedysarum triflorum L. Same as Meihomia triflora. 
Hedysarum umbellatum L. Same as Vethomia wmbellata. 
Heleocharis. <A modified spelling of Meocharis. 
Heliotrope, cultivated. See Heliotropiuin peruvianum. 
Heliotrope, Indian. See /eliotropinumn indicum. 
Heliotrope, beach. See Heliotropium curassavicum. 
Heliotropium curassavicum. BEACH HELIOTROPE, 
Family Boraginaceae. 
Loca, Names.—Hunig-tasi (Guam); Cotorrera de la Playa (Porto Rico); Alacran- 
cillo de Plava (Cuba). 
A much-branched, prostrate, glabrous, and glaucous perennial, often somewhat 
succulent, spreading sometimes to 60 or 90cm, Leaves linear-oblanceolate or oblong, 
usually obtuse and narrowed into a short petiole, or the upper sessile, rarely obovate, 
rather thick, inconspicuously veined; scorpioid spikes dense, bractless, mostly in 
pairs; flowers sessile, calyx segments acute; corolla white with a yellow eye, or 
changing to blue; stigma umbrella-shaped; anthers acuminate; fruit globose. 
A common weed on sandy seashores. 
REFERENCES: 
Heliotropium curassavicum L. Sp. Pl. 1: 180. 1753. 
Heliotropium indicum. SCORPION WEED. 
LocaL NAMES.—Berbena (Guam); Cotorrera (Porto Rico); Trompa de elefante 
(Manila); Alacrancillo (Cuba, Mexico); Flor del alacran (Panama). 
An annual, hirsute, herbaceous weed with dense, elongate, scorpioid spikes of small 
blue flowers. Stems 15 to 45 em, long; leaves alternate or subopposite, 2.5 to 10 em. 
long; petioled, ovate, subserrate, more or less woolly; spikes 2.5 to 20 em. long; sepals 
linear; corolla tube narrow-cylindric; lobes small, round, crenate; stigma conoid- 
linear; fruit 3.5 mm. long, ovoid, ribbed, soon separating into 2 miter-like nutlets, 
each nutlet with 2 cavities in addition to the seed-bearing cells. 
