DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 377 
Starch-yielding plants—Continued. 
Oryza sativa.—Fa’l, or pala, rice. 
Tacca pinnatifida.—Gabgab, or gaogao, Polynesian arrowroot. 
Zea mays.—Maeis, maize or Indian corn. 
Stemmodontia biflora. ROUGH-LEAVED TICKSEED, 
Family Asteraceae. 
Loca. NAMES.—Masigsig (Guam); Ateate (Samoa). 
A yellow-flowered composite. Leaves opposite, rough, petioled, 3-nerved, ovate, 
acuminate, serrate; heads axillary or terminal, | to 3, peduncled; ray-flowers pistil- 
late, fertile, ligule spreading, entire; involucre bracts 2-seriate, oblong or ovate- 
lanceolate often recurved, equaling or exceeding the disk, achenes shortly cuneate, 
3 or 4-angled, rough, the tip broad, truncate; disk flowers hermaphrodite, fertile, or 
the central sterile, tubular, limb elongate, 5-toothed ; anther base entire or subsagit- 
tate; style-branches of hermaphrodite flowers with acute hairy tips. 
A plant widely spread on tropical shores of eastern Asia and on many Pacitic 
islands. 
REFERENCES: 
Stemmodontia biflora (LL. ) 
Verbesina biflora LL. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 2: 1272. 1763, 
Wedelia biflora DC.; Wight, Contrib. 18. 1834. 
Stemmodontia canescens. Hoary TICKSEED. PLATE LXV. 
LocaL NAMES.—Masigsig chunge (Guam). 
A yellow-flowered composite similar to the preceding, but hairy-canescent. Leaves 
ovate or elliptical-lanceolate, serrate, acuminate, hairy-canescent, panicles sub- 
corymbose, involucre with two series of hirsute acuminate scales, and achenes 
blunt 
Common on the island of Guam. 
REFERENCES: 
Stemmodoutia canescens (Gaudich). 
Verbesina canescens Gaudich, Bot. Freye. Voy. 463, 1826. 
Wedelia chamissonis Less. Linnaea 6: 161, 1831. 
Stenotaphrum subulatum. SHORE GRASS. 
Family Poaceae. 
LocaL NAMEs. — Las-‘ga. 
A broadly creeping strand-grass, rooting at the lower nodes with the broad rachis 
of the spike-like panicle notched or pitted to receive the spikelets; spikelets convex 
within, fitting into the alternating pits and flat on the outside; leaves many, lanceo- 
late-acuminate, spreading; axis of rachis with a chaff-like prolongation; spikelets 
2-flowered, the first empty glame small. Described and figured by Trinius from a 
specimen collected on the island of Guam. 
Common along the beach and in damp places. Allied to Stenotaphrum secundatum 
Kuntze (8. americanum Schrank, ¥. glabrum Trin., and S. dimidiatum Trin.), which 
might be introduced with advantage into the island. The present species is valuable 
for lawns and for forage, and is a good sand binder. It is easily propagated by cut- 
tings and will grow inthe shade. It never becomes coarse or hard, but remains suc- 
culent. Cattle are very fond of it. See Lawns and lawn making. 
REFERENCES: 
Stenotaphrum subulatum Trin. Mem. Acad. Petersb. VI. Se. Nat. 3: 190. 1835. 
Sterculiaceae. CACAO FAMILY. 
This family is represented by the indigenous ufa ( Heritiera littoralis), a tree grow- 
ing near the shore; the introduced cacao (Theobroma cacao), Which is successfully 
cultivated in sheltered places; and Waltheria americana, a widely spread tropical 
weed. Kleinhoria hospita, a tree apparently indigenous on many islands of the 
Pacific, has not been observed in Guam, but may possibly occur in the forests of the 
northern part of the island. 
