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crowded branchlets, and its crowded, imbricate, minutely puncticulate, small, 
coriaceous leaves which have cartilaginous margins. It is dedicated to 
Mr. W. E. Safford, author of the “Useful Plants of Guam.” 
PHYLLANTHUS SIMPLEX Retz. Obs. 5 (1789) 29. 
G. E. S. 148, McGregor 410, also collected in Guam by Gaudichaud, but 
_ not recorded by Mr. Safford. 
Tropical Asia to Malaya and Polynesia. 
PHYLLANTHUS URINARIA Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753) 982; Safford 352. 
G. E. S. 108. 
Widely distributed in the tropics of both hemispheres. (Mr. Safford 
also records Phyllanthus nivosus Bull. from Guam, from plants introduced 
by himself from Honolulu.) 
RICINUS Linnaeus 
RICINUS COMMUNIS Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753) 1007; Safford 364. 
G. E. S. 291, locally known as agaliya. 
In all warm countries, cultivated or wild, probaly a native of Africa. 
ANACARDIACEAE 
ANACARDIUM Linnaeus 
ANACARDIUM OCCIDENTALE Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753) 888; Safford 182. 
G. E. A. 218, 868, local name casoy. 
A native of tropical America, now widely distributed in most tropical 
countries in cultivation. 
MANGIFERA Linnaeus 
MANGIFERA INDICA Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753) 200; Safford 315. 
G. E. S. 288, local name manga, as in the Philippines from which group 
it was probably introduced into Guam by the Spaniards. 
MANGIFERA ODORATA Griff. Notul. 4 (1854) 417. 
G. E. S. 204, near Piti, known as the “Saipan Mango,” indicating its 
introduction from the neighboring island of Saipan. Widely distributed in 
Malaya. 
CELASTRACEAE 
GYMNOSPORIA Benth. & Hook. f. 
GYMNOSPORIA THOMPSONII sp. nov. 
Frutex inflorescentiis parcissime puberulis exceptis glaber, 
inerme; foliis ellipticis vel ovato-ellipticis, chartaceis vel sub- 
coriaceis, obtusis vel rotundatis, basi acutis, usque ad 9 cm longis, 
margine distanter leviter crenatis, nervis utrinque circiter 7, 
tenuibus; floribus axillaribus, fasciculatis vel depauperato- 
cymosis, 5-meris; capsulis obovoideis, 8 ad 10 mm longis, 3- vel 
4-angulatis, 3- vel 4-locellatis, seminibus exarillatis. 
A shrub, quite glabrous except the minutely puberulent in- 
