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36866 to 36887— Continued. 



36870. Canavali sp. 

 "Fiie-lopa." 



36871. Clerodendrum amicori'm Seem. 

 " ' Mamalnpe." 



Distribution. — A white-flowered shrub, often 15 feet tall, found in Samoa 

 and on the adjacent islands. 



36872. Crassina elegans (Jacq.) Kuntze. 

 (Zinnia elegans Jacq.) 



"Maheriha." 



36873. Dioscorea sp. Yam. 

 "Soi, a species of yam." 



36874. Gynopogon bracteolosa (Rich.) Schumann. 

 (Alyxia bracteolosa Rich.) 



"Nau, or Laumaile. , ' : 



36875. Indigofera sp. 

 "Fue. This is one of the many varieties of creeping plants. This one in 



particular is a kind of shrub." (Stearns.) 



36876. Leucaena glauca (L.) Benth. 

 "Lopa. Another of the lopa species." (Stearns.) 



36877. Maba elliptica Forster. Maba. 



"A shrub of 6 feet or more, or a moderate-sized tree, or sometimes a lofty 

 tree; branches slender, cinereous, terete, rather rough; shoots hairy, glabres- 

 cent; leaves elliptical or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse at the apex, cuneate at base, 

 glabrescent, subcoriaceous, 1^ to 4£ inches long by three-fourths to If inches 

 wide. Petioles one-tenth to one-fifth inch long. The fruit is fleshy, peduncu- 

 late, crowded, greenish, ellipsoidal, scarcely 1 inch long by one-half inch 

 thick, pubescent or nearly glabrous, two or three celled; seeds triquetrous. 

 This plant is called Maba by the natives in the Friendly Islands, and Kiharupat 

 in Java, and Anume in the Navigator's Islands. It is eaten by the children and 

 flowers in June or July and in January or February. When young, it is difficult 

 to distinguish from M. rufa, and approaches also in appearance M. buxifolia." 

 (Hiern, Monograph of Ebenacese, in Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical 

 Society, vol. 12, pt. 1, p. 122, 1873.) 



36878 and 36879. Meibomia umbellata (L.) Kuntze. Bush tick trefoil. 



(Desmodium umbellatwn DC.) 



"Lala. A shrub 1 to 2 meters high, growing on the sea beach, with densely 

 downy young branches, 3-foliate leaves, and axillary umbels of whitish papili- 

 onaceous flowers. Branches terete; petioles 2.5 cm. or less long, slightly fur- 

 rowed; leaflets subcoriaceous with raised costate veins, green and glabrous 

 above, thinly gray-canescent or nearly glabrescent beneath, end leaflet larger 

 than side ones, roundi3h, or broad-oblong, 5 to 7.5 cm. long; umbels 6 to 12 

 flowered; pedicels short, unequal; calyx 4 mm. long, densely silky, 4-parted, 

 2-bracted; bracts minute, deciduous; standard of corolla obovate, keel blunt; 

 stamens monadelphous; pod jointed, 3.5 to 5 cm. long, the joints 3 to 5, thick, 

 glabrescent or silky, indented at both sutures. 



"A strand shrub of wide tropical distribution. Common near the beach iu 

 Guam, Samoa, Fiji, and the Malay Archipelago. In Samoa it is used for perches 

 for pet fruit pigeons. The Guam name means ' lizard's bush. ' " ( W. E. Safford, 

 Useful Pla7its of Guam.) 



