DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 845 
I am not sure of the identity of the Guam plant. Its glaucous leaves exceed in 
strength the Samoan and Hawaiian screwpines referred to this species. There is also 
considerable difference between the Samoan ‘fala’? and the Hawaiian ‘‘hala,’’? both 
in the texture of the leaves and the color of the drupes. 
REFERENCES: 
Pandanus tectorius Parkinson, Journ, Voy. to the South Sea in HH. M. 8. 
Endeavor, 46. 1778. 
Keura odorifera Forsk. Fl. Agypt. Arab, 172. 1775. 
Pandanus odoratissimus Li. t. Suppl. 424. 1781. 
Pandanus fascicularis Lam. Encye, 1: 372, 1785. 
Pandanus sp. 
LocaL NAMES.—Paingot ((ruam). 
A species of Pandanus grows in Guam in curtivation, the tender young leaves of 
which are used by the natives asa pot herb, and as a flavoring for various dishes. 
They taste very much like artichokes. 
Pangas (Philippines). See Zinziher ziigiber. 
Pangdang (Philippines). See Pandanis. 
Pangi (Philippines). See Panginin edule. 
Pangium edule. 
Family Flacourtiaceae. 
Locat NaMeEs.—Rauidl, Rauwél (Guam, Yap); Pangi (Malayan, Philippines); 
soenger (Sumatra); Ani (Amboina). 
A large tree, introduced into Guam from the island of Yap, bearing large, round, 
pulpy, edible fruit with numerous large seeds. Leaves large, alternate, entire or 
inclining to be 3-lobed, long-petioled, cordate or round-ovate, acuminate, smooth 
above, hairy below along the veins; flowers of different sexes; calyx roundish, 
dividing into 2 or 3 unequal segments; petals 5 or 6, each bearing a scale on the inner 
surface at the base: male flowers with an indetinite number of stamens, having leaf- 
like filaments and oval anthers; female flowers with 5 or 6 staminodes alternating 
with the petals; ovary elongate-ovoid, l-celled, with 2 to 4 placentas, each bearing 
an indefinite number of seeds; stigma sessile; fruit a large, rounded or oval capsule, 
which does not split open, with a moderately hard, brown rind; seeds numerous, 
large, embedded in a mass of pulp, transverse, egg-shaped or 3-cornered, with a 
hard shell, covered with conspicuous branching veins, and a long and. large hilum. 
They grow readily when planted fresh; cotyledons very large, leaf-like. 
The sweetish yellow pulp has an onion-like flavor. The seeds contain prussic acid 
and are poisonous if eaten fresh. They are edible after the poisonous principle has 
been removed by continued steeping in water. In the Malay Archipelago they 
form an important food staple of the natives. The crashed seeds are antiseptic and 
are used to preserve fish; the bark is used for stupefying fish. The wood is hard.“ 
REFERENCES: 
Panginm edule Reinw. Syl. Ratisb, 2: 12. 1828 (ex Ind. Kew.). 
Panicum colonum. Same as Mehinochlow colon, 
Panicum distachyum. 
Family Poaceae. 
A grass with branched straggling stems, creeping below, slender, quite glabrous or 
panicle sparsely hairy. Leaves linear or lanceolate, with rounded base, flat; margins 
of sheath sometimes ciliate, mouth hairy; spikes rarely more than 4, erect, at length 
spreading; rachis slender, smooth; spikelets solitary, subsessile in 1 or 2 rows, ellip- 
soid, glabrous, variable in size, pale green. 
«Warburg, Flacourtiaceze, in Engler und Prantl Nat. Pflanzen familien, Teil 5, 
Abt. 6a, p. 28, 1595. 
