330 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 
On the upper face of this polea strong knife with a wooden handle is firmly attached 
by means of a pivot. The handle is attached by a spring to the roof above or the 
branch of a tree, and by a line or rattan toa treadle below, which can be worked 
by the foot of the operator. The spring above holds the edge of the knife against 
the pole or a block with a uniform pressure, while the strip is drawn between it and 
the pole or block. By means of the treadle the pressure is released. The fineness 
and whiteness of the fiber is enhanced by drawing the strips several times. This ix 
accompanied by considerable waste, which is in part compensated for by an increase 
in value of the fiber.” 
REFERENCES: 
Musa tectilis Née, Anal. Cienc, Nat. 4: 128. 1801. 
Mussaenda frondosa. 
Family Rubiaceae. 
LocaL NAMES.—Agboy (Philippines); ’Uto’uto, Aloalo-sina, Fau-uta (Samoa); 
Bovu (Fiji). 
A handsome shrub, with yellow flowers, having one of the divisions of the calyx 
expanded into a white, leaf-like, petioled appendage. Leaves oblong or ovate- 
acuminate, opposite or in whorls of three; stipules solitary or in pairs between the 
petioles; flowers in terminal cymes; bracts and bracteoles deciduous; calyx-tube 
oblong or turbinate; calyx-teeth 5, deciduous almost immediately after flowering, 
one modified into a large, white, petioled leaf; corolla tubular, funnel-shaped above, 
tube silky, throat hairy; lobes 5, broadly ovate, acute or acuminate; stamens 5 on the 
throat of the corolla, filaments short, anthers linear; ovary 2-celled; style filiform; 
stigmas 2, linear; ovules numerous on peltate fleshy placentas; berry obovoid, glab- 
rous, fleshy, with a broad areole on the top; seeds minute, testa pitted. 
This plant is of wide tropical distribution, being found in Polynesia, Melanesia, 
the Malay Archipelago, and India. In Bombay the white leaf-like segment of the 
‘alyx is eaten as a vegetable. The white leaves are given in milk asa remedy for 
jaundice in India, and the root is used as a remedy for leprosy. 
REFERENCES: 
Mussaenda frondosa 1. Sp. Pl. 1: 177. 1753. 
Mustard (Indian). See Brassica juncea. 
Mutha (India). See Cyperus rotundus, 
Myrobalan family. See Combretaceue. 
Nagao (Guam). 
The vernacular name for a ripe coconut in which the water has become absorbed. 
Naju (Panama). See Abelimoschus eseulentus. 
Name (Panama). See Dioseorea alata. 
Namulenga (Samoa). See Vitex trifolia. 
Nafia (Guam). See Limnitzera littorea and L. pedicellata. 
Nafia ((iuam). See Lunnitzera pedicellata. 
Nanago (Guam). See Gynopogon torresianus. 
Nanaso ((iuam). See Lobelia koenigii. 
Nangka (Guam). 
The Phillipine name for the Jak-frait (Artocarpus integrifolia); iin Guam applied to 
the edible seed of the fertile breadfruit, Artocarpus communis, or “dugdug.” 
Naranjo (Spanish). See Citrus aurantium, and its variety sinensis. 
Nardo (Guam). Name applied in the island to Atcamosco rogec. 
“See Gilmore, Commercial fibers of Philippines, Bur. Agr. | Philippines], Farmers’ 
Bull. No. 4, pp. 11-12, 1903. 
