342 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 



Palm, Ivory-nut. See Coclocorcus nnilcanini. 

 Palm-lily. Siv Tuitsiit liTmiimlin. 

 Palm. Nipa. Si'O .Xi/im fruHcans. 



Palm, Rattan. 



A siK'cit's 111' (•liiuhiii'r Cahumi.s, not identilii'tl, ctillt'"! "]H'huko luildiii-tano" l)y 

 till' natives. 

 Palm, sago. See Coelocomis (tniicdnini. 



Palm, screw. 



General name lor tlie .species of randanus. (More eoiniiioiily known as .•^crew- 

 pines, l)nt allieil to the palms.) 

 Palm, sugar. See S(tgiieruK pinnalas. 



Palma. 



This name is applied <,'enerieally by many S]ianish writers to the various species of 

 I'ainlanns >;ro\vin<ion the island. 



Palma brava (Guam). 



A small, graceful, pinnate-leaved palm with a strong, slender, elastic trunk, of 

 which carrying sticks and shafts of carts are made. Introdnced, hut now widely 

 spread on the island; not identified. 

 Palma de Marfil (Spanish). See Coehx-nrciix iiiHininnn. 

 Palmeae. See Arecaceae. 



Palo de jagueca (Porto Rico). See The-fpesia populnea. 

 Palo del Brazil. See Biancaea nappan. 

 Palo Maria (Spanish). 



See ('alophiflliim Inophi^Uum. 

 Panabolong (Philippines). See Lobelia koenigii. 

 Panago or Banago (Guam). See Jcmninuin inaricwum. 



Panao (Guam). 



A tree mentioned by Governor Olive which furnishes Ijoards for construction. 

 Unidentified; referred by Gaudichaud to the genus Claoxylon. In the Philippines 

 this name is applied to Dipterorarpas liixj^idus. 

 Panax cochleatum. Same as Xothopana.c coddeatum. 

 Panax conchifolium Roxb. Same as Nothopana.r rtM-hlentum. 

 Panax, cut-leaved. See Nothopanax frut icomuji . 

 Panax fruticosum. Same as Nothojxtnax fruticosuni. 



Pancratium littorale. Spider lily. 



Family Amaryllidai-eae. 



Local names. — Lirio (Guam); Aho.s-ahos nga mapoti (PhiliiJijines) ; Seaside 

 daffodil (English). 

 A bulbous plant growing along the seashore and in moist sandy places, with 

 umbels of fragrant white flowers. Perianth with a cylindrical tube and (> linear 

 segments; stamens 6, the tilameuts free above, but webbed and united into a funnel- 

 shaped cup below; anthers narrow, versatile; ovary 3-celled with 2 ovules in each 

 cell, bearing a long slender style and capitate stigma; leaves star-shaped. 



This ])lant is of comparatively recent introduction into (tuam. It has spread 

 rapiilly and covers acres of coast near Agana. The flowers burst into ])loom at about 

 half past 4 o'clock in the afternoon. 

 References: 



Pancratium littorale Jacq. Select. Stirp. Amer. 99. 17()3. 

 Hymenocallifi liftoralix Salisb. Trans. Ilort. Soc. 1:338. 1812. 

 The genus Pancratium as established by Linn;eus in Species Plantarura 1: 290. 

 1753, and Genera Plantarum (•<!. .">. 141. 17r)4, was adopted from the Pancratium of 



