312 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 



is sprea<l from Malacca to Polynesia, and is recorded by Gnppy from the islands of 

 Hou^'aiiiville Strait, Solomon (iroup. 



IvKl'KKKNCKS: 



Lumnitzera lUtorea (Jack) Voight, Hort. Suburl). Calc. 39. 1845. 

 Pyrrhanthiis littorais Jack, Malay. Misc. 2: 57. 1822. 

 Lmpmadaria purpurea Gandich. Bot. Freyc. Voy. 481. /.ift^. 1826. 

 Littiiiiilzera purpurea Vreti], Rep. Bot. 1: 155. 1834. 

 Lumnitzera cocdnea Wight & Arn. Prod. 1: 316. 1834. 



Iiumnitzera pedicellata. Red-flowered mangrove. 



Local names. — ^'afia. 



A small tree growing in salt-water swamps, with clusters of crimson flowers. 

 Branches terete, dark-colored, wrinkled, alternate, leafy, marked with scars of fallen 

 leaves, and bearing spikes of flowers at their tips; leaves 7.5 cm. long and 16 nun. 

 liroad, alternate, without stipules, obovate-cuneate, emarginate, entire, attenuatt" 

 into a short petiole, very smooth, leathery, rather fleshy, having a rather prominent 

 midrib, which reaches the apex; spikes of flowers terminal, occasionally inclining to 

 grow in pairs, with the primary branch aborted, and the lateral branches approxi- 

 mate, 10 to 15-flowered, simple, erect; rachis scarcely 15 cm. long, smooth, scarred 

 where flowers and fruits have fallen off; bracts 1.5 mm. long, ovate, acute, concave, 

 ciliate, smooth, colored, fugacious; flowers approximate, alternate, 12 to 14 mm. long, 

 smooth, crinison; calyx superior, persistent, 5-parted, divisions leathery, ovate- 

 rounded, not veined, ciliate; calyx tube with 2 bracteoles near the base; petals 5, 

 three times longer than the calyx, cordate-ovate, obtuse, spreading, alternating with 

 the divisions of the calyx, deciduous after flowering; stamens 10, 5 opposite the petals 

 and 5 opposite the lobes of the calyx, filaments thread-like, equal, twice as long as 

 the petals, anthers cordate-subrotund, attached by the back, 2-celled, longitudinally 

 dehiscent; ovary obconical, terete, attenuate into the pedicel so that the line of sepa- 

 ration of the two is not apparent; style slightly shorter than the stamens, simple, 

 cylindrical, erect, thicker at the apex; stigma truncate; drupe 16 mm. long, oblong, 

 many-veined, in the middle two-angled and with two bracteoles, the angles decurrent 

 at the base, crowned by the calyx, narrowing into the compressed pedicel, woody, 

 dark-brown, nearly smooth, glossy, 1-celled, 1-seeded; seed oblong, terete, pendu- 

 lous, twice shorter than the drupe; cotyledons convolute. 



This species was described by Presl from specimens collected in Guam by Haenke 

 in 1792. It is also recorded by Finsch from Tarawa Island, Gilbert Group. 

 References: 

 Lumnitzera pedicellata Presl, Rel. Haenk. 2: 23. 1830. 

 Lumot ( Philippines ) . See A Igse. 

 liumut (Guam, Malay Archipelago). See Algae. 

 Lupinus angustifolius Blanco. Same as Zomia diphylla. 

 Luya (Philippines). See Zinziber zingiber. 

 Luyaluya (Philippines). See Zinziber zerumbet. 

 Luyos ( Philippines) . See Areca cathecu. 



Lycopersicon lycopersicum. Tomato. 



Family Solanaceae. 



Local names. — Tomate (Spanish); Camatis (Philippines); Xit6matl, Gitomate 



(Mexico). 



The tomato has escaped from cultivation in Guam and is found growing wild in 



waste places and on the sites of abandoned clearings. Two forms occur, one globular, 



or nearly so, and tlie other oval, each about 2.5 cm. in diameter. Our best varieties 



do not thrive if planted at the beginning of the rainy season, having a tendency to 



