374 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 
Setlas (Guam). See Citrus medica. 
Seyaihagon (Guam). See Nervilia arragoana, 
Shaddock. See Citrus decumana., 
Shell-leaf. See Nothopanax cochleatum. 
She-oak, Australian. See Casuarina equisetifolia, 
Shore grass. See Stenotaphrum subulatum. 
Siak (Visayan). See Hveoecaria agallocha. 
Sibucao or Sibukao ((iuam). See Bianeaea sappan. 
Sicoi (Philippines). See Lagenaria lagenaria. 
Sida acuta. BROOMWEED. 
Family Malvaceae. 
LocaL NAMES.—Escobilla (Spanish); Eseobang-haba, Wawalisin (Philippines); 
Malva de caballo (Cuba). 
A much-branched, semi-shrubby, perennial, its branches erect, smooth, or slightly 
rough with minute stellate hairs. Leaves 1.5 to 6.5 em. long, lanceolate-oblong, 
rounded at base, acute or obtuse, sharply serrate or crenate-serrate, glabrous, pale 
beneath, petioles 6 mm. long, thickened at top, slightly stellate-hairy; stipules linear- 
subulate, exceeding petioles, veined, ciliate; flowers yellow, 1.5 em. long, peduncle 
6 to 12 mm. long, stellate-pubescent; calyx nearly glabrous, the segments very 
broadly triangular, acute or acuminate; petals twice as long as calyx; ripe carpels 5 
to 11, rugose on the back, black, with 2 sharp erect beaks. Collected in Guam by 
Lesson. 
Common in waste places. Thestems yield a good fiber. The natives make brooms, 
with which they sweep their houses, of the stems of this and allied species, gathering 
them afresh each morning. In the Philippines, according to Padre Blanco, poul- 
tices are made by boiling the leaves and are applied to ulcers and other sores, In 
India a tonic is made of the plant, which is said to be a good appetizer. 
REFERENCES: 
Sida acuta Burm. {. Fl. Ind. 147. 1768. 
Sida carpinifolia. Same as Sida acuta, 
Sida glomerata. 
This species is said by Gaudichaud to occur in Guam, where, according to his notes, 
the natives call it 7 “hapagu’? meaning ‘poll a gratter’? (hair 
for scratching). It is given by Endlicher in his list of South Sea Island plants as 
occurring in Guam, where it was collected by Lesson. According to Cavanilles’s 
se iad 
escobilla papagu, 
description, the species has ovate-lanceolate, serrate, tomentose leaves, axillary 1- 
flowered very short pedicels, and five 2-beaked carpels. Calyx ciliate. 
REFERENCES: 
Sida glomerata Cay. Diss. 1:18. t..2. /. 6. 17885. 
Sida indica. Same as Abutilon indicum. 
Sida maura. 
In Endlicher’s list of South Sea Island plants, cited above, this species, attributed to 
Link, is said to have been collected by Chamisso in the Marianne Islands. — It is not 
further known. In Link’s Enumeratio plantarum horti regil botanici berolinensis, ? 
I find not S. maura but S. mauritiana, which has the leaves ‘‘ praesertim subtus 
incana. caps. longe birostres.’”’ No locality given. Leaves cordate, crenate, often 
angled. 
REFERENCES: 
Sida maura Endl. Fl. Stidseeinseln, Ann. Wien. Mus. 1: 182. 1836, 
aUber die Flora der Stidseeinseln, p. 182, 1836. 
bVol. 2, p. 205, 1822. 
