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very small, green, in axillary and terminal panicled slender spikes; bracts usually 

 shorter than the 3 sepals and utricle; stamens 2 or 3; utricle acute, indehiscent. 



This is the species most commonly cultivated in India. The tender succulent 

 tops of the young stems and -branches are cooked as a substitute for asparagus. The 

 various forms growing wild in Guam are not much esteemed, but, like asparagus, 

 would doubtless be improved by cultivation. 



Widely spread in the Tropics, growing as a weed in waste places, not cultivated in 

 Guam, but like the preceding species used as a pot herb when young and tender. 

 REFERENCES: 



Amaranthus viridis L. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 2: 1405. 1763. 

 Amargosa (Spanish). See Momordica charantia. 



Amaryllidaceae. AMARYLLIS FAMILY. 



This family is represented in Guam by the indigenous Crinum asiaticum; by 

 Hypoxis aurea, which grows upon the savannas; and by the introduced tuberose 

 (Polianthes tuberosa), the pretty pink-flowered Atamosco rosea, and the white spider 

 lily, or " seashore daffodil" (Pancratium littorale). 

 Ambulia fragrans. 



Family Scrophulariaceae. 



LOCAL NAMESS. Gege, Guegue, Gege sensonyan (Guam). 



A small, procumbent, very fragrant plant growing in marshy places and stagnant 

 pools near the coast. Leaves sessile, oblong, lanceolate, serrate, with rounded sub- 

 amplexicaul bases; calyx smooth, 5-parted, with lanceolate-subulate segments; struc- 

 ture of the flower similar to the preceding species; corolla scarcely longer than the 

 calyx. 



This plant is much esteemed by the natives for its aromatic fragrance. It is spread 

 among the islands of the Pacific and in the Malay Archipelago, and occurs in north 

 Australia. Gandichaud was the first to collect it in Guam. 

 REFERENCES: 



Ambulia fragrans (Forst. f.) Drake, Fl. Polyn. Franc. 140. 1892. 

 Ruellia fragrans Forst. f. Prod. 44. 1786. 



Limnophila serrata Gaudich. Bot. Freyc. Voy. 448. t. 57. f. 2. 1826. 

 Ambulia indica. 



LOCAL NAMES. Gege, Guegue (Guam); Inata (Philippines). 



A low, glabrous, aromatic plant growing in swamps and on the edges of rice fields. 

 The leaves may be either all whorled and pinnatifid, 6 to 19 mm. long, or in wetter 

 places there may be a few emersed opposite entire ones at the top of the stem and 

 numerous multifid ones at its base; flowers axillary, solitary, pedicelled, rarely sub- 

 racemose, the pedicels longer than the calyx; calyx 5-parted, hemispheric in fruit, the 

 lobes equal, ovate, acuminate, not striate; corolla-tube cylindric, upper lip the outer 

 in the bud, suberect; lower lip spreading, 3-fid; stamens 4, didynamous, included; 

 style deflexed at the tip, stigma shortly 2-lamellate; fruit a capsule, seeds numerous, 

 small, angular, truncate, reticulate. 



This plant is esteemed by the natives for its aromatic odor, which somewhat 

 resembles turpentine. It was first collected in Guam by Gaudichaud. It is found 

 in India, the Malay Archipelago, China, Australia, and tropical Africa. 

 REFERENCES : 

 Ambulia indica (L. ). 

 Hottonia indica L. Syst. ed. 10. 919. 1759. 

 lAmnophila gratioloides R. Br. Prod. 442. 1810. 

 Amiga de noche (Guam). See Polianthes tuberosa. 

 Amigos (Philippines). See Lycopodium cernuum. 

 Amir ay (Philippines). See Boehmeria tenacissima. 



