DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF PLANTS. 



Ill llu^ followini;- ciitalotiue tlic (iuaiii ii:im(\saiul tlioso of the Hawaiian 

 and Saiiioan Islands are taivcn chiolly from tiio niaiiuscript notes of the 

 autlior. His list of the vernacular names of the plants growing in 

 (luam is supplemented ]>y the lists of several Spanish governors of the 

 island in ofiicial reports to the captain-general of the Philippines, 

 copies of which were found in the archives of Agana, and also }}y the 

 names cited by Chamisso and Gaudichaud in the repoils of the })otany 

 of the expeditions to wliich thev were attaclied. The list of Hawaiian 

 names is sup])lemented l)y a number taken from Hille])rand\s Flora of 

 the Hawaiian Islands, and that of the Samoan names from Rev. Thomas 

 PowelTs list of Samoan plants and their vernacular names published 

 in Seemann's Journal of Botany, 1868, and Rev. George Pratt's 

 Grammar and Dictionary of the Samoan Language, 1893. The Philip- 

 pine names have been taken from Padre Blanco's Flora de Filipinas and 

 Padre Mercado's Libro de Medicinas, supplemented by Mr. Merrill's 

 Dictionar}' of the Plant Names of the Philippine Islands, 1903; the 

 Fijian names from Seemann's Flora Vitiensis; the Tahitian names 

 from Drake del Castillo's Flore de la Polynesie Fran^aise; the Mexican 

 names from Dr. Edward Palmer's manuscript notes and from Dr. Jose 

 Ramirez's Sinonomia vulgar 3" cientitica de las Plantas INIexicanas, 

 1902; the Panama names from Seemann's Flora of the Isthnuis of 

 Panama, published in the Botany of the Voyage of the Herald, 1852 

 to 1857; and the Porto Rico names from Cook and Collins's Economic 

 l)Iants of Porto Rico, supplemented by the first part of Urban's Flora 

 Portoricensis, in Symbolae Antillanae, 1903. 



The Guam names are pronounced in general according to the conti- 

 nental method, the vowels having more or less resemblance to those 

 of the German and Italian languages, and the consonants being like 

 those of the English. It must be observed, however, that g is always 

 hard, as in the English word "go," except in the combination ng; h 

 is always aspirated, even at the end of a sjdlable, very much' like the 

 German ch in "ach" ("ahgao," the name of a tree, is pronounced 

 "ahh-gao"); n is like the Spanish letter in the word "caiion," or ni 

 in the English word "cmion;" ng is like ng in the English word 

 "song" (not like ng in "finger"); y is always a consonant, pro- 

 nounced like the English letter j ("hayo" or "hayu" (wood), corre- 

 sponding to the Mala3'an "kayu," is pronounced "hajyii"). The 

 Chamorro vowels e and i are frequently confused by the natives, as 

 in the name for taro, "sune'' or "suni;" and the same is true of u 

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