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Milkweed family. See Asdepiadaceae. 

 Milky mangrove (Australia). See Excoecarui agallocJia. 

 Millet, Kodo. See Paspaluvi serobiculatum. 

 Milo (Samoa, Hawaii). See Tlu'xpexiti jtopitlnea. 

 Mimosa scandens L. Same as Leii.t jjlum-dln'Kh'i^. 



Mimosaceae. Mimosa family. 



This famih' is represented in (tiiam l)y Ai-acia furnesiami, Adi-niiiillii rn /inniiiiiKi, 

 Leiix i>h<ttieol(>iihs, Leitcnerid (jldiicn, ami I'illiccolnhinnt iluln-. 

 Mint, Chinese. See Meiitlia (irn!iisi.-<. 



Mirabilis jalapa. Fouk-o'cloi k. .Marvel-of-Peri'. 



Family ^yctaginaceae. 



Local names. — Maravilla (Guam); Trompetilla, Don Diego de Noche (Mexico); 



Buenas tardes (Panama); Wundeiblume (derman); Belle de Nuit (French). 



A glabrescent herbaceous plant bearing showy trumpet-shaped tiowers of various 



colors. Leaves ovate or subcordate; flowers apetalous, the perianth consisting of a 



5-lobed corolla-like calyx encircled by a 5-lobed involucre; stamens 5; ovary 1 -celled, 



ovule solitary, style simple. 



The tiowers expand in the afternoon and wither the following morning. In Guam 

 they are often seen in the gardens of the natives; crimson, scarlet, wliite, yellow, 

 and variegated. Some of them are very fragrant, and some are odorless. In Japan 

 the powdered seeds are used as a cosmetic. 

 References: 



Mirabilis jalapa L. Sp. PI. 1: 177. 1753. 



Miscanthus floridulus. Same as Xipltagrostia floridula. 

 Miscanthus japonicus Andere. See under Xiphagrostis floridula.. 

 Mitracarpum hirtum. 

 Family Rubiaceae. 



A herbaceous annual introduced from tropical America. Stem simple or few- 

 branched, hairy at the summit; leaves oblong or lanceolate, subsessile or shortly 

 petioled, opposite, connected Ijy stipules divided into bristles; flower whorls and 

 heads many-flowered; calyx limb 4-parted, ])ersistent, 2 of its segments rigid, 

 subulate-lanceolate, longer than the capsule, the other 2 shorter; flowers small; 

 corolla funnel-shaped, with 4 lobes; stamens 4, inserted on the margin of the tube; 

 ovary 2-celled, adherent to the calyx tube, capsule membranaceous or leathery, 

 circumcissile.« 



To this species should be referred Mltracarpion torresianum Cham. & Schlecht., 

 nillected in Guam by Chamisso in 1818.'' 

 References: 



Mitracarpum hirtum (L.) DC. Prod. 4: 572. 1830. 

 Spermacoce hirta L. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 1: 148. 1762. 

 Mitracarpum torresianum ChauL & Schlecht. Same as Mitriirarpnni hirtum. 

 Moli (Samoa). See Citrus aurantium tiapomtcea. 

 Moli-tai (Samoa). See Ximenia americaua. 



Momordica charantia. Balsam-pear. 



Family Cucurbitaceae. 



Local names. — Balsamina, Amargosa (Spanish); Ampalia ( l^hilippines) ; Cunde- 

 amar (Cuba,, Porto Rico). 

 A clindiing gourd-like vine with palmately 5-lobed leaves and warty, yellow, 



"Schumann, in Engler und Prantl. Die Natiirlichcn Pflanzenfamilifii, Tcil 4, Abt. 

 4, pp. 142, 14(j, lig. 46 U., 1891. 



'' "Legimus in insula Guajan en insulis Marianis." Limi.ta, vol. 3, p. 360. 1828. 



