346 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 
This grass is eaten by cattle. It was first collected in Guam by Chamisso, 
REFERENCES: 
Panicum distachyumn i. Mant. 1: 183. 1767. 
Panicum gaudichaudii. 
Family Poaceae. 
LocAL NAMES.—Umog, Uuma (Guam), 
A grass with digitate spikes. Smooth; culms growing in tufts, upright, undivided; 
leaves flat; spikes 12 to 16, fasciculate, crowded, ascending; spikelets solitary, biseri- 
ate, hispidulo-scabrous. This species was described from a plant collected on the 
island of Guam by Gaudichaud. 
REFERENCES: 
Panicum gaudichaudii Kunth, Rey. Gram. 2: 385. ¢. 706.1830. 
Digitaria stricta Gaudich. Bot. Freye. Voy. 409. 1826, not Roth, 1821. 
Panoche ((iuam). See under Sacceharwin officinarin. 
Papau or Papao (Guam). 
Caulescent aroids (Alocasia spp.) with cordate leaves growing along the borders of 
streams on the island of Guam. ~The natives distinguish two varieties, papau ‘ipaka 
or “white papau,”? and papau pinto. Their stems, which are very acrid, grow to a 
height of 1 to 2 meters. In early times they were eaten by the natives during the 
periods of famine which followed hurricanes. 
Papaw. See Carict papaya. 
Papaya (Spanish, Philippincs). See Carica papaya. 
Papua (Guam, Philippines). See Nothopanase fruticosum. 
Paraiso (Spanish, Guam). See Melia azedarach, 
Parasites. 
Among the parasitic plants are Cassytha jiliformis, a leafless, wiry plant growing in 
thickets, and adhering to the branches by root-like tubercles by which they derive 
their nourishment; and a species of Balanophora, a low, fleshy, leafless, red plant 
growing on the roots of other plants, common in thickets, especially on the hill 
above San Ramon. 
Pariti tiliaceum. CorKWoop. PLATE LXI. 
Local NAMES.—Pago (Guam); Balibago (Philippines); Baro, Varo (Madagascar); 
Fau (Samoa, Tahiti, Fiji); Au (Rarotonga); Hau (Hawaii); Mahagua, Mahoe 
(W. Indies); Emajagua (Porto Rico); Mahagua, Masagua, Masahua (Mexico): 
Majagua (Panama); Kalau, Kala-hau (Ponape); Gili-fau (Mortlocks); Kal 
(Yap). 
A common seacoast tree with spreading branches, yellow flowers with dark centers, 
and bark which yields a fiber valuable for cordage. Leaves on long petioles, orbic- 
ular-cordate, shortly acuminate, entire or crenulate, white or hoary underneath with 
a close, short tomentum, nearly glabrous above, 7 to 13 em. in diameter; midrib 
with an elongated vaginate nectar gland near its base on the lower surface; stipules 
large, broadly oblong, deciduous; flowers on short peduncles in the upper axils or 
at the ends of the branches; involucre campanulate, divided to about the middle 
into 10 to 12 lobes, about half the length of the calyx; calyx 5-lobed, nearly 2.5 em. 
long, with lanceolate 1-nerved lobes; staminal column bearing numerous filaments 
on the outside below the summit; ovary 5-celled, with 3 or more ovules in each cell; 
style branches 5, spreading, with terminal capitate stigmas; capsule membranous or 
coriaceous; seeds nearly globular, with granular surface. 
In Guam this species is abundant. The natives make cordage of its inner bark, 
nearly every family being provided with rope-making appliances. The ropes are 
used for halters and lines for tethering cattle and carabaos, for harness, and for 
cables for ferrying the bamboo balsas, or rafts, across the mouths of the rivers on the 
