372 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 
Yollected in Guam by Gaudichaud, This plant is also found in Java, Celebes, New 
Guinea, Kaiser Wilhelmsland and the Marshall Islands. 
REFERENCES: 
Schychowskya ruderalis (Forst.) Endl. Ann. Wien. Mus. 1: 187. ¢. 13. 1836. 
Urtica ruderalis Forst. f. Prod. 66, 1786, 
Fleurya ruderalis Gaudich, Bot. Freye. Voy. 497, 1826. 
Scimitar pod. See Lens phaseoloides. 
Sciophila torresiana. Same as Elatostema pedunculatum. 
Scorpion weed. See Heliotropium indicum. 
Screwpine or screwpalm. General name for the species of Pandanus. 
Scrophulariaceae. FOXGLOVE FAMILY. 
This family is represented in Guam by three low, herbaceous, water-loving plants, 
the fragrant Ambulia gratioloides and A. fragrans, called ‘‘ guegue”’ or ‘‘gégé’’ (pro- 
nounced ‘‘gaygay’’), and the fleshy creeping, blue-flowered water-hyssop, Bacopa 
monniera ( Herpestis monniera). 
Sea-beans. 
Those found in Guan are: Lens phaseoloides, the scimetar-pod bean called ‘‘gayé,”’ 
“Véduson,’’ or ‘‘bayog ;’’ Stizolobium giganteum, the ox-eye bean of the Pacific; 
Canavali obtusifolium, a succulent, glabrous creeper growing on the strand; and 
Guilandina crista, the gray nicker-nut, or ‘“‘ pakao’’ of the natives. See the scientific 
names. 
Sea-coast laburnum. Sce Sophora tomentosa. 
Sea daffodil. See Pancratium littorale. 
Sea-grass. See Muppia maritima. 
Sea-island cotton. See Cossypinimn barbadense. 
Sea purslane. See Sesuriuin portulacastrum. 
Seaside bean. See Canavali obtusifolium. 
Seaside plum. See Vimenia americana, 
Seaweeds. 
See Alge and Halophila ovatis, the latter a flowering plant collected in Guam and 
figured by Gaudichaud. 
Seboyas (Guam). See Allium cepa and Gardens. 
Sedges. See Cyperaceuae. 
Sedyiafi, Seyafi, or Sedyafo. 
Improper spelling of the name of an urticaceous plant, ‘‘Sayafi,’’ or ‘‘Sayiafi.’”’ 
Sedyaihagon or Seyaihagon ((1uam). See Nervilia aragoana. 
Seguidillas (Spanish). See Botor tetragonoloba. 
Senna. See Cassia. 
Sensitive joint vetch, Indian. See cleschynomene indica. 
Sensitive plants. 
The only plant remarkable for its irritability is Averrhoa carambola, a tree belong- 
ing to the Oxalidaceae, called “ bilimbines’’ by the natives. 
Sesame. See Sesaimiin orientale, 
Sesamum indicum. Same as Sesamum orientale. 
Sesamum orientale. SESAME. BENNE, 
Family Pedaliaceae. 
LocaL NAMEs.—AjOnjoli (Spanish); Ahénholi (Guam); Lingd, Lore’, Larigis, 
Lengnga (Philippines); Gingili, Gingelly (I. Indies); Til (Bengal). 
An annual plant which has been introduced into Guam, and is cultivated in some 
