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T am not sure of the identity of the Guam plant. Itss glaucous leaves exceed in 

 strength the Samoan and Hawaiian ^crewpines referred to tiiis species. There is also 

 (■onsideraI>le difference between the Samoan "fala" and the Hawaiian "hala," both 

 in the texture of the leaves and the color of the drupes. 

 References: 



Panddnats tectorius Parkinson, Journ. Voy. to the South Sea in U. M. S. 



Endeavor, 46. 1773. 

 Keura odorifer-a Forsk. Fl. ^Egypt. Arab. 172. 1775. 

 Pandanus odoratmimus L. f. Suppl. 424. 17S1. 

 Pdndanus fascicularis ham. Encyc. 1: o72. 178:5. 



Pandanus sp. 



Local names. — Pairigot (Guam). 

 A species of Pandanus grows in (iuam in cultivation, the tender young leaves of 

 which are used by the natives as a pot herb, and us a llavoriiig for various dishes. 

 They taste very much like artichokes. 

 Pangas (Philipijines). See Zinziher zingiber. 

 Pangdang (Philippines). 8ee Pandmiiis. 

 Pan'g'i (Philippines). See Pam/imn fdule. 



Pangium edule. 



Family Flacourtiaceae. 



Local names. — Raual, Rauwel (Guam, Yap); Paiigi (^lalayan, l'hilip]iines); 

 Boenger (Sumatra); Ani (Amboina). 

 A large tree, introduced into Guam from the island of Yap, bearing large, round, 

 pulpy, edible fruit with numerous large seeds. Leaves large, alternate, entire or 

 inclining to be 3-lobed, long-petioled, cordate or round-ovate, acuminate, smooth 

 above, hairy below along the veins; flowers of different sexes; calyx roundish, 

 dividing into 2 or 3 unequal segments; petals 5 or 6, each bearing a scale on the inner 

 surface at the base; male flowers with an indefinite number of stamens, having leaf- 

 like filaments and oval anthers; female flowers with 5 or 6 staminodes alternating 

 witli the petals; ovary elongate-ovoid, 1-celled, with 2 to 4 {)lacentas, each bearing 

 an indefinite number of seeds; stigma sessile; fruit a large, rounded or oval capsule, 

 which does not split open, with a moderately hard, brown rind; seeds numerous, 

 large, embedded in a mass of pulp, transverse, egg-shaped or 3-cornered, with a 

 hard shell, covered with consijicuous branching veins, and a long and large hilum. 

 They grow readily when planted fresh; cotyledons very large, leaf-like. 



The sweetish yellow pulp has an onion-like flavor. The seeds contain prussic acid 

 and are jioisonous if eaten fresh. They are edible after the poisonous principle has 

 been removed by continued steejjing in water. In the IVIalay Archipelago the>' 

 form an important food staple of the natives. The crushed seeds are antisei)tic and 

 are used to preserve fish; the bark is usetl for stupefying fish. The wood is hard." 



References: 



Panr/iiim ednle Reinw. Syll. Ratisb. 2: 12. lS2cS (ex Tnd. Kew.). 



Panicuni colonum. Same as KcliiiKxhhin co/oiki. 



Panicum distachyum. 

 Family Poaccae. 

 A grass with branched straggling stems, creeping below, slender, quite glabrous or 

 panicle sparsely hairy. Leaves linear or lanceolate, with rounded base, flat; margins 

 of sheath sometimes t'iliate, mouth hairy; spikes rarely more than 4, erect, at length 

 si)reading; racliis slender, smooth; spikelets solitary, subsessile in 1 or 2 rows, ellip- 

 soid, glabrous, variable in size, pale green. 

 — _™ 1 



"Warburg, Flacourtiaceae, in Engler und Pranti Nat. Pflanzen familien, Teil 3, 

 Abt. Ga, p. 23, 1895. 



