DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 3825 
Milkweed family. See cAselepradaceae. 
Milky mangrove (Australia). See Mecoecaria agallocha. 
Millet, Kodo. See Paspalum serobiculatum. 
Milo (Samoa, Hawaii). See Thespesia populied. 
Mimosa scandens |.. Same as Lens plitseoloides. 
Mimosaceae. Mimosa FAMILY. 
This family is represented in’ Guam by .teaera farneso, Adenanthera paroniid, 
Lens phaseoloides, Leucaena glanea, and Pithecolobinin dulce, 
Mint, Chinese. See Mentha arvensis. 
Mirabilis jalapa. Four-o'CLock, MARVEL-Or-PERU, 
‘amily Nyctaginaceae. 
Local NAMES.-—-Maravilla (Guam); Trompetilla, Don Diego de Noche (Mexico ); 
Buenas tardes (Panama); Wunderblume (German ); Belle de Nuit (French). 
A glabrescent herbaceous plant bearing showy trumpet-shaped flowers of various 
colors. Leaves oyate or subeordate; flowers apetalous, the perianth consisting of a 
5-lobed corolla-like calyx encircled by a 5-lobed involucre; stamens 5; ovary 1-celled, 
ovule solitary, style simple. 
The flowers expand in the afternoon and wither the following morning. In Guam 
they are often seen in the gardens of the natives; crimson, scarlet, white, vellow, 
and variegated. Some of them are very fragrant, and some are odorless. In Japan 
the powdered seeds are used as a cosmetic. 
REFERENCES: 
Mirabilis jalapa LL. Sp. Pl. 1: 177. 1753, 
Miscanthus floridulus. Same as Viphagrostis floridula, 
Miscanthus japonicus Anders. See under Niphagrostis florida, 
Mitracarpum hirtum. 
Family Rubiaceae. 
A herbaceous annual introduced from tropical America. Stem simple or few- 
branched, hairy at the summit; leaves oblong or lanceolate, subsessile or shortly 
petioled, opposite, connected by stipules divided into bristles; flower whorls and 
heads many-flowered; calyx limb 4-parted, persistent, 2 of its segments rigid, 
subulate-lanceolate, longer than the capsule, the other 2) shorter; flowers small; 
corolla funnel-shaped, with 4 lobes; stamens 4, inserted on the margin of the tube; 
ovary 2-celled, adherent to the calyx tube, capsule membranaceous or leathery, 
circumeissile. 
To this species should be referred Mitracarpiumn forresianum Cham, & Sehlecht., 
collected in Guam by Chamisso in 1818. ? 
REFERENCES: 
Mitracarpum hirtum (L.) DC. Prod, 4: 572. 1880. 
Spermacoce hirta 1. Sp. PL ed. 2. 1: 148. 1762, 
Mitracarpum torresianum Cham. & Schlecht. Same as Mitracarpune hirtin, 
Moli (Samoa). See Citrus curantiuin saponaced. 
Moli-tai (Samoa). See Viinenia americana. 
Momordica charantia. SALSA M-PEAR. 
Family Cucurbitaceac, 
Local Nawes. —Balsamina, Amargosa (Spanish); Ampalia (Philippines) ; Cunde- 
amar (Cuba, Porto Rico). 
A climbing gourd-like vine with palmately 5-lobed | leaves and warty, yellow, 
eSchumann, in Engler und Prantl, Die Natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien, Teil 4, Abt. 
4, pp. 12, 16, fig. 46 U., 1891. 
b* Legimus in insula Guajan en insulis Marianis.”? Linnea, vol. 8, p. 860. P828,. 
