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rachis, which is not extended beyond them; flowers perfect or the upper staniinate; 

 scales compressed, minutely keeled, scabrous on the keel, the 2 lower empty, the 

 others subtendin<i flowers or the upper empty; stamens 3; styles distinct; stigir.as 

 plumose; grain loosely inclosed in the scale and palet. 



Common in Guam, growing in sandy places, associated with Dactyloclenium aegtjp- 

 tiacum and Capriola dartiflon. A grass distributed widely in the tropical and temper- 

 ate regions of the world. Common in North America. 

 References: 

 Eleusine indica Gaertn. Fruct. 1 : 8. 1788. 



Enredadera (Spanish). 



A general name for climbers. See Climbing plants. 



Entada pursaetha. Same as Lens phaseoloides. 



Entada scandens. See Lens phaseoloides. 



Enteromorpha. See Algse. 



Eperua decandra. Same as Intsia hijuga. 



Epidendrum fasciola. Same as Taeniophyllum fasdola. 



Epidendrum triste. Same as Luisia teretifolia. 



Epiphytal plants: 

 Cyclopliorus adnascens.— A climbing fern, with small simple, linear-lanceolate 



fronds. 

 Davallia solida.— A climbing fern, with glossy green divided fronds. 

 Dischidia puberula.— An asclepiad, with small fleshy leaves. 

 Humata heterophylla. — A creeping fern. 

 Luisia teretifolia.— An orchid with inconspicuous flowers. 

 Lycopodium phlegmaria. — ({rowing in graceful pendent tassels. 

 Neottopteris nidus. — The bird's-nest fern. 



Nephrolepis acuta.— A fern with long, slender, simply pinnate fronds. 

 Ophiodermis pendulum.— Hanging like ribbons from the l)ranches. 

 Piper sp.?. — A pepper calle<l "pod pod" by the natives, mentioned by (iaudichaud. 

 Phymatodes phymatodes.— A climbing fern, with leathery, lobed fronds, like an 



oak leaf. 

 Taeniophylluni fasciola. — An orchid. 

 Vittaria elong-ata.— Ribbon fern growing in grass-like tufts. 



Eragrostis. 



A genus of grasses distinguished by having the inflorescence in compound or 

 decompound panicles, spikelets 4 to 10-flowered; glumes imbricated in two ranks, 

 the upper reflexed, with the edges turned back; stamens 2 or 3; styles 2, with 

 feathery stigmas; seeds loose, 2-horned, not furrowed. Three species have l:)een 

 collected in Guam: Eragrostis pilosa, E. tenella, and E. plumosa, the last regarded by 

 Hooker as a variety of the preceding species." See under Grasses. 

 Eranthemum sp. See under' Acanthacese. 

 Erianthus floridulus. Same as Xipheagrostis florididus. 

 Eriodendron anfractuosum. Same as Ceiha pentandra. 



Erythrina indica. East Indian coral tree. 



Family Fabaceae. 



Local names. — Gabgab, Gapgap, or Gaogao (Guam); Dapdap (Philippines, 

 Malay Archipelago); Gatae, Ngatae (Rarotonga, Samoa); Pinon (Cuba). 



A moderate-sized, quick-growing tree with straight trunk, which is usually armed 

 with prickles when young, pinnately trifoliolate leaves and dense racemes of large 

 scarlet blossoms; leaflets membranous, glabrous, the end one round-cuspidate, trun- 

 cate, or broadly rhomboidal at the base; calyx oblique, spathaceous, minutely 

 5-toothed at the very tip, finally split to the base down the back ; petals very unequal, 



«See Flora Brit. Ind. vol. 7, pp. 315, 323, 1897, where these species are described. 



