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petiole, the upper surface brownish-olivaceous when dry, shining, 
the lower a little paler, shining; lateral nerves 5 or 6 on each 
side of the midrib, distant, slender, anastomosing, the reticu- 
lations slender, fine; petioles about 5 mm long, sometimes a little 
puberulent. Male flowers in axillary, solitary or sometimes 
fascicled racemes, or the uppermost ones in fascicles, the racemes 
few-flowered, 1 to 1.5 cm long, slightly pubescent; pedicels 5 to 
7 mm long, jointed below to the very short, 1 mm long branch, 
each branch bearing a single flower, and each subtended by an 
ovate, 1 mm long bract. Sepals 4, imbricate, ovate, somewhat 
pubescent, obtuse to acute, 2 to 3 mm long, 1.5 to 2 mm wide. 
Stamens indefinite; filaments 1 to 2 mm long; anthers broadly 
elliptic-ovoid, somewhat curved, 0.8 to 1 mm long. 
Guam Experiment Station 466, July, 1912. 
A species differing from most of those in Flacourtia and allied genera 
in its quite entire leaves. It more closely resembles certain species of 
Scolopia in facies than it does Flocourtia, but by definition goes in the 
latter genus. 
CARICACEAE 
CARICA Linnaeus 
CARICA PAPAYA Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753) 877; Safford 215. 
McGregor 335, G. E. S. 420, the common papaya. 
A native of tropical America, now found in all tropical countries. 
CACTACEAE 
NOPALEA Salm-Dyck 
NOPALEA COCHINELIFERA (Mill.) Salm-Dyck Cact. Hort. Dyck. ed. 2 
(1845) 64. 
Opuntia cochinelifera Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 8 (1768) no. 6. 
Opuntia sp.; Safford 338. 
G. E. S. 264, locally known as lengua de vaca, also its common name in 
the Philippines. 
A native of Mexico, now cultivated and sometimes spontaneous in other 
tropical countries. 
Safford records an undetermined species of Opuntia from Guam, citing 
the same native name, which is probably Nopalea cochinelifera. The 
specimens I have examined are in flower, and the generic identification is 
correct. 
THYMELAEACEAE 
WIKSTROEMIA Endlicher 
WIKSTROEMIA ELLIPTICA sp. nov. § Euwikstroemia. 
Species W. indicae affinis, differt foliis majoribus, ellipticis, 
vel ovato-ellipticis, usque ad 6 cm longis et 3 cm latis, utrinque 
