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sparse sprinkling of ironwood ( Casiwarina equisetifolia), Among the ferns are Gleiche- 
via dichotoma, Blechnum orientale, Odoutosoria retusa, Pleris biaurita, Pteris marginata, 
and Lygodium scandens. The coarse labiate Mesosphacrum capitatum (‘batunes’’ ); 
Glossogyne tennifolia, a composite like Bidens; and the yellow-flowered Stemmodontia 
hiflora and S. canescens occur, the last with thickly canescent leaves. Among the 
shrubs are Lobelia koenigii and Pemphis acidula, and the grasses include Dimeria 
chloridiformis, a small variety of Echinochloa colonum, Panicum distachyum, and Cen- 
totheca lappacea. The little yellow-flowered Hypovis aurea grows on the mountains 
hack of Agana, and on Santa Rosa are patches of Lycopodiimn cernuum. 
Sayafi or sayiafi. 
An urticaceous shrub or small tree resembling Boehmeria. Collected by Gaudi- 
chaud but not identified. Also written “i sedyiati,’’ “i seyafi.” 
Scaevola koenigii. Same as Lobelia hoenigii. 
Scaevola velutina. Same as Lobelia koenigii. 
Schizophyllum. See Punyi. 
Schychowskya interrupta. 
Family Urticaceae. 
Loca, NAMEs.—Palilalia (Guam); Mangeso (Samoa); Salato-nithoro (Fiji). 
An annual nettle-like herb with deep green, long-petioled alternate leaves, which 
are 3-veined at the base, and clusters of small green unisexual flowers borne on long 
slender peduncles. Stem 60 to 120 cm. high, erect, flexuous, branched, furrowed; 
whole plant more or less covered with scattered stinging hairs; leaves 6 to 9 em. 
long, broadly ovate, acuminate, coarsely crenate-serrate, membranous, base cuneate, 
rounded or cordate, 3 to 5-veined, lateral veins 3 to 5 pairs; petiole long, very slen- 
der; stipules connate in pairs; flowers in cymes or spikes which are very variable, 25 
cm. long, bearing rather distant pedicelled clusters of minute flowers; flower branches 
short, or long and very slender; male sepals 4, concave; pistillode minute; female 
flower with pedicel decurved, swollen above; achene cordate, compressed, keeled on 
one side, the keel decurrent on the pedicel. Common in cultivated fields and waste 
places. A weed widely distributed throughout the East Indies, China, Abyssinia, 
and the Pacific islands. Easily distinguished from the following species by its acu- 
minate leaves and the hairs on the stem and leaves. Although this plant bears a 
bad reputation in Fiji, and in Samoa, where its common name signifies “stinging,” yet 
in Guam it is comparatively harmless. It bears a close resemblance to S, aestuans 
( Feurya aestuans Gaudich.), which in Porto Rico is called ‘* picapica.”’ 
REFERENCES: 
Schychouskya interrupta (L.). 
Urtica interrupta L. Sp, Pl. 2: 985. 1753. 
Fleurya interrupta Gaadich. Bot. Freye. Voy. 497. 1826. 
The type species of Fleurya belongs to the earlier genus Urticastrum, and the name 
Fleurya must therefore be abandoned. 
Schychowskya ruderalis. 
An annual glabrous herb with leaves 5-veined at the base. Leaves alternate, 
obtuse, truncate, or subcordate at the base, ovate, scarcely acuminate, coarsely 
crenate-serrate or crenate, 2.5 to 10 em. long; flowers unisexual, in androgynous 
clusters which are shorter or longer than the petiole; tufts loosely flowered, approxi- 
mate; pedicels not dilated; male flowers 3 to 5-sepaled; stamens 3 to 5, inflexed in 
bud; pistillode small; female flowers with 4-lobed or 4-parted perianth, posticous 
lobe largest; ovary oblique, decuryed, style subulate, very short, ovule erect; achene 
half inclosed in the persistent perianth, obliquely ovate, compressed, gibbous, 
pericarp menibranous, endosperm scanty, cotyledons broad, radicle short, straight. 
