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The plant is probably of West Indian origin, but is now widely spread throughout 
the warmer regions of the world. It is used medicinally in some parts of India, and 
is often planted about pagodas. 
REFERENCES: 
Lochnera rosea (L.) Reichenb, Consp, 134, 1828. 
Vinea rosea L. Syst. ed. 10, 944. 1759. 
Lodtigao (Guam). See Clerodendron inerme. 
Léduson or Lédusong (Ciuam). See Lens phaseoloides. 
Lomaria spicata. Same as Belvisia spicata, See Ferns. 
Loiiga (Philippines). See Sesamum indicum. 
Lonok (Philippines). See /icus sp. 
Looking-glass tree. See Heritivra littoralis. 
Low senna. See Cussia tora. 
Luluhut or lulujut (Guam). 
The name of a small tree, not identified, sometimes used for stakes for inclosures 
and for fuel. It is referred by Gaudichaud to the Rhamnaceae. Common on the 
shore of Rota. 
Luisia teretifolia. 
Family Orchidaceae. 
Loca NaMEs.—Cebollo halom-tano (Guam). 
A tufted epiphytal orchid with cylindrical leaves 10 to 15 cm. long; flowers 
drooping, small, growing in a spike; petals not much longer than the lateral sepals, 
linear-oblong, obtuse; lateral sepals subacute, keel winged; the basal portion of the 
labellum almost square, sack-like, the upper portion broadly cordate. 
Collected in Guam by Gaudichaud. An accurate drawing of the living plant is 
desirable, as there is much confusion in the various descriptions of the coloration of 
the flowers. 
REFERENCES: 
Luisia teretifolia Gaudich. Bot. Freye. Voy. 427. 1.37, 1826. 
Lumbang ((ruam). 
The Philippine name for the candle-nut ( Aleurites moluccana). 
Lumnitzera coccinea W. & A. Same as Lumunitzera littorea. 
Lumnitzera littorea. RED-FLOWERED MANGROVE. 
Family Combretaceae. 
LocAL NAMES.—Nafia (Guam); Culasi, Kulasi, Sagiisa (Philippines). 
A small tree growing in salt-water swamps, associated with mangroves. Leaves 
clustered toward the ends of the branches, alternate, thickly leathery, subsessile, 
narrow-obovate, 2 to 9 em. long; flowers growing in racemes; racemes dense, termi- - 
nal, sometimes 2 or 3 forming a small corymb; calyx tube with 2 adnate bracteoles 
near the base, oblong, narrowed at both ends, produced above the ovary, lobes 5, 
persistent; petals 5, oblong, scarlet, 6 mm. long; stamens 5 to 10, usually 7; twice as 
long as the petals, filaments crimson; ovary inferior, l-celled; style awl-shaped, simple; 
ovules 2 to 5, pendulous from the top of the cell; fruit woody, elliptic-oblong, 12 to 
24 mm. long including the calyx limb, longitudinally striate or nearly smooth; seed 
1, cotyledons convolute. 
The following species should possibly be referred to this one, which was described 
and figured under the name of Laguneularia purpurea by Gaudichaud in 1826 (Voy. 
Uranie 481, t. 104), from specimens collected by him in Guam in 1819. The good, 
heavy, yellowish-brown, fine-grained wood is used in boat building by the natives 
of Kaiser Wilhelmsland. On the Malay Peninsula it is used for axles of carts. It 
