DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF PLANTS. 



In the following- catalogue the Guam names and those of the Hawaiian 

 and Samoan Islands are taken chiefly from the manuscript notes of the 

 author. His list of the vernacular names of the plants growing in 

 Guam is supplemented by the lists of several Spanish governors of the 

 island in official reports to the cap tain -general of the Philippines, 

 copies of which were found in the archives of Agana, and also by the 

 names cited by Chamisso and Gaudichaud in the reports of the botany 

 of the expeditions to which they were attached. The list of Hawaiian 

 names is supplemented b}^ a number taken from Hillebrand's Flora of 

 the Hawaiian Islands, and that of the Samoan names from Rev. Thomas 

 Powell's list of Samoan plants and their vernacular names published 

 in Seemann's Journal of Botany, 1868, and Rev. George Pratt's 

 Grammar and Dictionary of the Samoan Language, 1893. The Philip- 

 pine names have been taken from Padre Blanco's Flora de Filipinas and 

 Padre Mercado's Libro de Medicinas, supplemented by Mr. Merrill's 

 Dictionary of the Plant Names of the Philippine Islands, 1903; the 

 Fijian names from Seemann's Flora Vitiensis; the Tahitian names 

 from Drake del Castillo's Flore de la Polynesie Francaise; the Mexican 

 names from Dr. Edward Palmer's manuscript notes and from Dr. Jose 

 Ramirez's Sinonomia vulgar y cientifica de las Plantas Mexicanas, 

 1902; the Panama names from Seemann's Flora of the Isthmus of 

 Panama, published in the Botany of the Voyage of the Herald, 1852 

 to 1857; and the Porto Rico names from Cook and Collins's Economic 

 plants of Porto Rico, supplemented by the first part of Urban's Flora 

 Portoricensis, in Symbolae Antillanae, 1903. 



The Guam names are pronounced in general according to the conti- 

 nental method, the vowels having more or less resemblance to those 

 of the German and Italian languages, and the consonants being like 

 those of the English. It must be observed, however, that g is always 

 hard, as in the English word "go," except in the combination fig; h 

 is always aspirated, even at the end of a syllable, very much like the 

 German ch in u ach" ("ahgao," the name of a tree, is pronounced 

 "ahh-gao"); n is like the Spanish letter in the word " canon," or ni 

 in the English word u onion;" fig is like; ng in the English word 

 "song" (not like ng in "finger"); y is always -a consonant, pro- 

 nounced like the English letter j ("hayo" or "hayu" (wood), corre- 

 sponding to the Malayan "kayu," is pronounced "hajyu"). The 

 Chamorro vowels e and i are frequently confused by the natives, as 

 in the name for taro, "sune" or "suni;" and the same is true of u 

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