342 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM, 
Palm, Ivory-nut. See Coelococeus ainicarum. 
Palm-lily. See Tactsia terminalis. 
Palm, Nipa. See Nypa fruticans. 
Palm, Rattan. 
A species of climbing Calamus, not identified, called “behuko halom-tano” by 
the natives. 
Palm, sago. See Coelococeus amicaruin. 
Palm, screw. 
General name for the species of Pandanus. (More commonly known as serew- 
pines, but allied to the palms. ) 
Palm, sugar. See Saguerus pinnatus. 
Palma. 
This name is applied generically by many Spanish writers to the various species of 
Pandanus growing on the island. 
Palma brava ((cuam). 
A small, graceful, pinnate-leaved palm with a strong, slender, elastic trunk, of 
which carrying sticks and shafts of carts are made. Introduced, but now widely 
spread on the island; not identified. 
Palma de Marfil (Spanish). See Coelococeus amicarumn. 
Palmeae. See Arecaceae, 
Palo de jagueca (Porto Rico). See Thespesia populnea. 
Palo del Brazil. See Biancaea sappan. 
Palo Maria (Spanish ). 
See Calophyllim inophyllum. 
Panabélong (Philippines). See Lobelia koenigii. 
Panago or Banago ((iuam). See Jusminuin marianum. 
Panao (Guam). 
A tree mentioned by Governor Olive which furnishes boards for construction. 
Unidentified; referred by Gaudichaud to the genus Claoxylon. In the Philippines 
this name is applied to Dipterocarpus hispidus. 
Panax cochleatum. Same as Nothopaniar cochleatuin. 
Panax conchifolium Roxb. Same as Nothopanas cochleatian, 
Panax, cut-leaved. See Nothopanaw friticosun. 
Panax fruticosum. Same as Nothopunasr fruticosum. 
Pancratium littorale. SPIDER LILY. 
Family Amaryllidaceae. 
Local NamEs.—Lirio (Guam); Ahos-ahos nga mapoti (Philippines) ; Seaside 
daffodil (English). 
A bulbous plant growing along the seashore and in moist sandy places, with 
umbels of fragrant white flowers. Perianth with a cylindrical tube and 6 linear 
segments; stamens 6, the filaments free above, but webbed and united into a funnel- 
shaped cup below; anthers narrow, versatile; ovary 3-celled with 2 ovules in each 
cell, bearing a long slender style and capitate stigma; leaves star-shaped. 
This plant is of comparatively recent introduction into Guam. It has spread 
rapidly and covers acres of coast near Agafia. The flowers burst into bloom at about 
half past 4 0’clock in the afternoon. 
REFERENCES: 
Pancratium littorale Jacq. Select. Stirp. Amer. 99. 1763. 
Hymenocallis littoralis Salisb. Trans. Hort, Soc. 1:338. 1812. 
The genus Pancratium as established by Linnieus in Species Plantarum 1: 290, 
1753, and Genera Plantarum ed. 5, 141. 1754, was adopted from the Paneratinm of 
