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flowers with white tubular corollas, at first regular, but soon opening by 

 a slit down the side and forming the shape of a miniature five-lobed fan. 

 Corolla lobes thick and stiff at the middle part, but with the edges thin 

 and more or less toothed and ciliate ; style strongly curved, hairy, pro- 

 truding through the slit in the corolla tube ; stigma with a ciliate cup 

 surrounding it; drupe oblong-globose, lobed, white, crowned with the 

 persistent calyx-segments and containing a bony two-celled stone. These 

 two plants are found on the coasts of many tropical countries. They 

 usually grow close to the edge of the sea. It is evident that they are not 

 necessarily salt-loving species, since they reappear on the high sabanas. 

 They are entirely absent from the forests : the conditions favorable 

 to them seem to be plenty of sunlight, wet soil, and a free sweep of the 

 wind. 



From the top of Santa Rosa we had a view of nearly the entire island. 

 Nearly due east (per pocket compass) we could see Punta Mate ; nearly 

 west, Punta Hilaan ; to the northeast, Punta Anao ; farther to the north- 

 ward, Punta Ivafag ; a little west of north we could make out the point 

 of Taga, below which there is a sandy beach called Talague, or Tarragui, 

 and in the precipitous side ("ladera") a cave ("liyafig"), inhabited by 

 swifts (^Colocalia fucipkaga) , called " Yaydguag " by the natives. The 

 northernmost point of the island, Letegyan (called "Ritidian" on charts), 

 we could not see on account of intervening high land. About west-by- 

 north we could see the Sabana of Mataguak, which we had already 

 visited ; nearly west-southwest, Tomhon, or Tumhun Point ; about 

 southwest-by-south, the rounded hill of Tuyan, or "La Barrigada," 

 shutting out the city of Agaiia from our view, but not Asan point, 

 beyond it. We could also see the Vigia back of Agana, and beyond 

 this the higher mountains near Agat. Nearly due south my com- 

 panions pointed out Punta Luhuiia ; to the south-southeast, Punta 

 Hanom ; and about southeast-by-east a hill close to the sea, near 

 which my guide, Vicente Taitano, has his rancho. Looking toward the 

 southern end of the island along its east coast, we could make out 

 Punta Asiga beyond the Talofofo River, bearing nearly south-southwest ; 

 just inside of this, Punta Ipan, north of the mouth of the Talofofo 

 River ; then Punta Ilig, and, much nearer to us, Punta Pagat ; and 

 about southwest, just to the left of the slope of La Barrigada, Punta 

 Taugan. Down below us to the westward we could see the house of 

 Dofia Joaquina de Kaminga, my guide's god-mother, and a little nearer, 

 on the edge of the treeless sabana, the ranches of Jose Flores and his 

 father, Don Manuel. Don Manuel Flores is the father-in-law of Don 

 Gregorio Perez, our host. The two families are now having a bitter 

 feud over a large tract of land granted to Don Gregorio, situated in the 

 northeastern extremity of the island, lying north of an east-and-west line 



