The Plant World 



A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF POPULAR BOTANY 



Official Organ of 

 The Wild Flower Preservation Society 



OF America 



Vol. VI JULY, 1903 No. 7 



Extracts from the Note-Book of a Nat- 

 uralist on the Island of Guam.— VIII.* 



By William E. Safford. 



Sunday, September 24. — Went for a walk this morning across the 

 Agana River in an easterly direction, and then turned south parallel to 

 the riv^er. As I passed through the barrio called San Antonio, noticed 

 many coffee bushes above the houses laden with bright red berries ; yards 

 separated by fences of physic nut {.Jatropha curcas) called ' ' tubatuba ' ' 

 by the natives, the stakes of which had taken root. By the road-sides, as 

 I ascended a slope leading to the plateau, or " mesa," a number of plants 

 of the curious Bryophylht^n calycimim, the leaves of which when broken 

 off or lying on the ground send forth tiny plants at every notch in their 

 coarsely crenated margin. The natives here call it siempre-viva, or 

 " live -forever " ; in Cuba it is called hoja de bnija, or " witch's leaf." 

 Many bananas, coconuts, lemons, papayas (smaller fruit here than in 

 Samoa), silk cotton trees {Ceiba pentandra), and two shrubs called 

 dadangsi, or "bur-weeds." The first of these is the Ure7ia sinuata, 

 called in Porto Rico "dogs-foot weed," on account of its deeply lobed 

 leaves, the malvaceous plant before described with the gland in the mid- 

 rib of the leaf. The second is a species of Triumfetta, a member of the 

 Tiliaceae. The first has rose-purple flowers, which soon wither after 

 opening. The second has small y ellow flowers. Both have bur-like 



•Continued from June issue. Begun in September, igoa. 



