IX, 6,2 Merrill: The Plants of Guam 119 
RHIZOPHORA MUCRONATA Lam. Encycl. 6 (1804) 189; Safford 364, 
pl. 64. 
G. E. S. 404, locally known as mangle. 
Distribution of the preceding; readily distinguished by its much longer, 
several flowered peduncles. 
COMBRETACEAE 
TERMINALIA Linnaeus 
TERMINALIA CATAPPA Linn. Mant. 1 (1767) 128; Safford 385. 
McGregor 498; said by Safford to be very common, not only along the 
seashore but also inland, locally known as talisai. 
Of wide distribution in the tropics of the eastern hemisphere, introduced 
into tropical America. 
TERMINALIA SAFFORDII sp. nov. § Catappa. 
Arbor ut videtur alta, ramulis junioribus inflorescentiis ex- 
ceptis glabra vel subglabra; foliis breviter petiolatis, late obo- 
vatis, subcoriaceis, usque ad 13 cm longis, apice rotundato- 
truncatis vel latissime rotundatis, basi angustatis, obtusis, subtus 
2-glandulosis; fructibus 1.5 ad 2 cm longis, 6 ad 8 mm diametro, 
oblongo-ovoideis vel lanceolato-ovoideis, glabris, acuminatis, 
leviter compressis, non carinatis. 
A tree, size not indicated. Branches rather stout, the ultimate 
ones about 7 mm in diameter, glabrous, the branchlets marked 
with scars of fallen petioles more or less densely fulvous-pubes- 
cent. Leaves very broadly obovate, 10 to 13 cm long, 8 to 10 
em wide, subcoriaceous, the apex broadly rounded or rounded- 
truncate, narrowed below, the base obtuse or rounded, shining, 
the upper surface entirely glabrous, the lower slightly paler, 
glabrous, or the midrib more or less fulvous-villous, and with 
a gland near the insertion of the petiole on each side of the 
midrib; lateral nerves about 9 on each side of the midrib, rather 
slender, spreading, laxly anastomosing, the reticulations slender, 
distinct; petioles fulvous-pubescent, 10 to 12 mm long. Racemes 
in the upper axils, simple, in fruit up to 8 cm long, more or 
less pubescent. Fruits oblong-ovoid to lanceolate-ovoid, smooth, 
glabrous, 1.5 to 2 cm long, 6 to 8 mm wide, slightly compressed, 
not at all keeled or winged, acuminate, base obtuse, when dry 
brownish and somewhat glaucous. 
Guam Experiment Station 440, July 1912, locally known as talisai ganee. 
The foliage is somewhat similar to that of Terminalia catappa L., but 
the leaves are much smaller and relatively broader. The fruits are en- 
tirely different, somewhat resembling those of the Philippine Terminalia 
edulis. It may be most closely allied to the Polynesian Terminalia lito- 
ralis Seem. — 
