812 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 
is spread from Malacca to Polynesia, and is recorded by Guppy from the islands of 
Bougainville Strait, Solomon Group. 
REFERENCES: 
Lumnitzera littorea (Jack) Voight, Hort. Suburb. Cale. 39, 1845. 
Pyrrhanthus littoreus Jack, Malay. Mise. 2: 57. 1822. 
Laguneularia purpurea Gaudich. Bot. Freye. Voy. 481, t. 104. 1826. 
Lumnitzera purpurea Presl, Rep. Bot. 1: 155. 1834. 
Lumnitzera coccinea Wight & Arn. Prod. 1: 316, 1834. 
Lumnitzera pedicellata. RED-FLOWERED MANGROVE, 
LocaL NAMES.—Nafia. 
A small tree growing in salt-water swamps, with clusters of crimson flowers. 
Branches terete, dark-colored, wrinkled, alternate, leafy, marked with scars of fallen 
leaves, and bearing spikes of flowers at their tips; leaves 7.5 cm. long and 16 mm. 
broad, alternate, without stipules, obovate-cuneate, emarginate, entire, attenuate 
into a short petiole, very smooth, leathery, rather fleshy, having a rather prominent 
midrib, which reaches the apex; spikes of flowers terminal, occasionally inclining to 
grow in pairs, with the primary branch aborted, and the lateral branches approxi- 
mate, 10 to 15-flowered, simple, erect; rachis scarcely 15 cm, long, smooth, scarred 
where flowers and fruits have fallen off; bracts 1.5 mm. long, ovate, acute, concave, 
ciliate, smooth, colored, fugacious; flowers approximate, alternate, 12 to 14 mm. long, 
smooth, crimson; calyx superior, persistent, 5-parted, divisions leathery, ovate- 
rounded, not veined, ciliate; calyx tube with 2 bracteoles near the base; petals 5, 
three times longer than the calyx, cordate-ovate, obtuse, spreading, alternating with 
the divisions of the calyx, deciduous after flowering; stamens 10, 5 opposite the petals 
and 5 opposite the lobes of the calyx, filaments thread-like, equal, twice as long as 
the petals, anthers cordate-subrotund, attached by the back, 2-celled, longitudinally 
dehiscent; ovary obconical, terete, attenuate into the pedicel so that the line of sepa- 
ration of the two is not apparent; style slightly shorter than the stamens, simple, 
cylindrical, erect, thicker at the apex; stigma truncate; drupe 16 mm. long, oblong, 
many-veined, in the middle two-angled and with two bracteoles, the angles decurrent 
at the base, crowned by the calyx, narrowing into the compressed pedicel, woody, 
dark-brown, nearly smooth, glossy, 1-celled, 1-seeded; seed oblong, terete, pendu- 
lous, twice shorter than the drupe; cotyledons convolute. 
This species was described by Presl from specimens collected in Guam by Haenke 
in 1792, Itis also recorded by Finsch from Tarawa Island, Gilbert Group. 
REFERENCES: 
Lumnitzera pedicellata Presl, Rel. Haenk. 2: 23. 1830. 
Lumot (Philippines). See Algx. 
Lumut (Guam, Malay Archipelago). See Algex. 
Lupinus angustifolius Blanco. Same as Zornia diphylla. 
Luya (Philippines). See Zinziber zingiber. 
Luyaluya (Philippines). See Zinziber zerumbet. 
Luyos (Philippines). See Areca cathecu. 
Lycopersicon lycopersicum. Tomato. 
Family Solanaceae. 
LocaL NAMES.—Tomate (Spanish); Camatis (Philippines); Xit6matl, Gitomate 
(Mexico), 
The tomato has escaped from cultivation in Guam and is found growing wild -in 
waste places and on the sites of abandoned clearings. Two forms occur, one globular, 
or nearly so, and the other oval, each about 2.5 cm. in diameter. Our best varieties 
do not thrive if planted at the beginning of the rainy season, having a tendency to 
