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Naunau (Samoa). See Carinta herbacea. 
Neckera. See Muosses. 
Negro coffee. See Cassia occidentalis, 
Nephrodium dissectum. Same as Pryopteris dissect. See Ferns. 
Nephrodium parasiticum. Same as Dryopleris parasitica, See bers. 
Nephrolepis. See /vrin. 
Nerium oleander. 
The well-known oleander, an introduced plant cultivated by the natives for the 
sake of its flowers and called in Guam ‘‘adelfa’? or ‘rosa laurel.” 
REFERENCES: 
Neriwn oleander (.. Sp. Pl. 1: 209. 1753, 
Nervilia aragoana. W ATER-ROOT. 
Family Orchidaceae. 
LocAL NAMEsS.—Sevafhagon or Sedyafhagon, Maisa ulu, 
An orchid closely allied to Pogonia, collected by Gaudichaud in Guam and named 
by him for Arago, the draftsman of Freycinet’s expedition. Leaves subrotund- 
cordate, repand, of uniform color, many-nerved, smooth, plicate when young, with 
deep basal sinus and acute apex, usually solitary, sometimes in pairs, rising from a 
spheroid tuber about 12 mm. or more in diameter; flowers arranged in form of a 
‘single head,’’ (Guam). 
raceme on an erect leafless scape 17 to 80 em. high, greenish, shortly pedicelled, at 
first erect, afterwards nodding; perigonium half-open, persistent, divisions lanceolate- 
linear, acuminate, subequal; median lobe of the three-lobed lip broader than the 
lateral, obtusely crenulate, slightly villous within; stigma broader and lower than in 
Pogonia, column elongated, 
The natives of Guam frequently chew the firm, fleshy, juicy tuber as they walk 
through the woods, to quench their thirst, especially in the northern part of the 
island, where there are no springs nor streams. This species is figured in the Botany 
of the Uranie. A detailed description is given by Blume in Flora Javie, Orchidaceae, 
p. 130, tab. 56, under the name of Pogonia nervilia, 
Nervilia ovata Gaudich. is a species collected by Gaudichaud on the adjacent island 
of Rota, or Luta. 
REFERENCES: 
Nervilia aragoana Gaudich, Bot. Freye. Voy. 422. 6.35, 1826. 
Nervilia ovata. See under Nervilia aragoana. 
Nete or Neti (Guam). See Niphagrostis floridula: also under Grasses, 
Nettle family. See (rticaceae. 
Negatae (Samoa). See Krythrina imdica, 
Nickernut. See Giilandina crista. 
Nicotiana tabacum. ToBAcco. 
Family Solanaceae. 
LocAL NAMES.—Chupa (Guam); Tabaco (Spanish). 
Tobaeco was introduced into Guam by the Jesuit missionaries very shortly after 
their arrival. The natives soon became very fond of it, learning to smoke the leayes in 
the form of cigars, and some of them chewing it either alone or in combination with 
their areca nut and betel pepper. So popular was its use that the wages of the natives 
working for the missionaries and for the government were paid in tobacco leaves, as 
the archives at Agana will show. 
Though it is cultivated in a variety of situations, on the lowlands, on the coral plat- 
form or mesa, and in alluvial valleys, yet the natives recognize that the best results 
are obtained from tobacco planted on recently cleared land. The regions known as 
Santa Rosa, Yigo, Yomia, Matiguag, Finagudyog, and Magéi are all celebrated for their 
