DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 851 
Honolulu Botanical Gardens, were planted in Guam, and were thriving at the time of 
my departure from the island, 
REFERENCES: 
Phoenix sylvestris (L.) Roxb, Hort. Beng. 75, 1814 (ex Ind. Kew.); Fl. Ind. 
3: 787. 1832. 
Elate sylvestris Va. Sp. Pl. 2: 1189. 1758. 
Phragmites communis. Name as Trichoon phragmites. See under Trichoon 
rovburghit. 
Phragmites karka Trin. Same as Trichoonw rocbirghii. 
Phragmites phragmites. Sev under Trichoon rochurghti. 
Phragmites roxburghii. Same as Trichoon rovburghti. 
Phyllanthus gaudichaudii. Same as (ochidion marianum. 
Phyllanthus marianus. PHYLLANTHUS, 
Family Euphorbiaceae. 
A shrub with leaves arranged in two vertical rows; branches compressed, wrinkled ; 
leaves subsessile, ovate, unequal at the base, acute at the apex, membranous, promi- 
nently net-veined; flowers in axillary clusters, shortly pedicelled, very minute, 
numerous; glands of male flowers free; stamens 3, filaments united in a column; 
staminal column entire, anthers erect with vertical slits, free from one another; 
female flowers with three bifid styles; capsule of three crustaceous 2-valved cocel; 
seeds on the back coarsely, transversely undulate-ribbed. 
The type specimen of this species was collected on the island of Guam in 1819 by 
Gaudichaud and placed in the herbarium of De Candolle. The plant is used medici- 
nally by the natives of Guam. 
REFERENCES: 
Phyllanthus marianus Muell. Arg. Linnea 82: 17. 1865. 
Not to be confused with Phyllanthus (Glochidion) marianus Mull. Arg. Flora 48: 
379, 1865, also from Guam, which was first described by Miller in Linniwa, 32: 65, as 
Glochidion marianiwn, a genus which is now recognized as distinct from Phyllanthus.¢ 
Phyllanthus niruri. FLY-RoostT. 
LocaL NaMes.—Maigo-lalo, Maigu-lalo (Gruam ). 
An annual, herbaceous, glabrous weed of wide tropical distribution; stem angular, 
glabrous, 15 to 45 em. high, often branched from the base, with slender leafy angu- 
lar branchlets above. Leaves variable, pale grecn, 6 to 18 mm. long, often imbri- 
eated in two rows, glaucous beneath, elliptic-obovate, oblong, or linear, the tip 
rounded, obtuse, or acute; petiole minute; stipules subulate; flowers very numerous, 
males solitary and in pairs, almost sessile; female twice as large; sepals of male orbic- 
ular, of female narrowly oboyate-oblong with broad white margins, spreading; disk 
of male of minute glands; anthers 3, sessile on a short column, disk of female annu- 
lar, lobed; styles minute, very short, free, 2-lobed; capsule minute, depressed- 
globose, smooth; seeds with equal parallel slender ribs and faint cross strive. 
This plant is very common in Guam, growing everywhere in waste places. The 
native name, signifying ‘sleeping flies,’ or ‘‘fly-roost,’’ is probably applied to it 
from the appearance of the plant when the leaves closing together have the appear- 
ance of a number of two-winged insects clinging to the stem, 
The milky juice of this plant isa good remedy for offensive sores. The bruised 
bitter leaves are applied externally as a cure for the itch and for scabby sores of the 
scalp, and the fresh root isan excellent remedy for jaundice. ? 
REFERENCES: 
Phyllanthiys viruri La. Sp. Pl 2: 981. 1798. 
“ Wooker, Flora British India, vol. 5, p. 306, 1890. 
b Watt, Economic Products of India, vol. 6, pt. 1, p. 222, 1892. 
