DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 311 



The plant is probably of West Indian origin, but is now widely spread throughout 

 the warmer regions of the world. It is used medicinally in some parts of India, and 

 is often planted about pagodas. 

 REFERENCES: 



Lochnera rosea (L.) Reichenb. Consp. 134.1828. 

 Vinca rosea L. Syst. ed. 10. 944. 1759. 

 Lodiigao (Guam). See Clerodendron inerme. 

 Loduson or Lodusong (Guam) . See Lens phaseoloides. 

 Lomaria spicata. Same as Belmsia spicata. See Ferns. 

 Longa (Philippines). See Sesamum indicum. 

 Lonok (Philippines). See Ficus sp. 

 Looking-glass tree. See Heritiera littoralis. 

 Low senna. See Cassia tora. 

 Luluhut or lulujut (Guam). 



The name of a small tree, not identified, sometimes used for stakes for inclosures 

 and for fuel. It is referred by Gaudichaud to the Rhamnaceae. Common on the 

 shore of Rota. 

 Luisia teretifolia. 



Family Orchidaceae. 



LOCAL NAMES. Cebollo halom-tano (Guam). 



A tufted epiphytal orchid with cylindrical leaves 10 to 15 cm. long; flowers 

 drooping, small, growing in a spike; petals not much longer than the lateral sepals, 

 linear-oblong, obtuse; lateral sepals subacute, keel winged; the basal portion of the 

 labellum almost square, sack-like, the upper portion broadly cordate. 



Collected in Guam by Gaudichaud. An accurate drawing of the living plant is 

 desirable, as there is much confusion in the various descriptions of the coloration of 

 the flowers. 



REFERENCES: 



Luisia teretifolia Gaudich. Bot. Freyc. Voy. 427. t.37. 1826. 

 Lumbang (Guam). 



The Philippine name for the candle-nut (Aleurites moluccana). 

 Lumnitzera coccinea W. & A. Same as Lumnitzera littorea. 



Lumnitzera littorea. RED-FLOWERED MANGROVE. 



Family Combretaceae. 

 LOCAL NAMES. ftafia (Guam); Culasi, Kulasi, Sagasa (Philippines). 



A small tree growing in salt-water swamps, associated with mangroves. Leaves 

 clustered toward the ends of the branches, alternate, thickly leathery, subsessile, 

 narrow-obovate, 2 to 9 cm. long; flowers growing in racemes; racemes dense, termi- 

 nal, sometimes 2 or 3 forming a small corymb; calyx tube with 2 adnate bracteoles 

 near the base, oblong, narrowed at both ends, produced above the ovary, lobes 5, 

 persistent; petals 5, oblong, scarlet, 6 mm. long; stamens 5 to 10, usually 7; twice as 

 long as the petals, filaments crimson; ovary inferior, 1-celled; style awl-shaped, simple; 

 ovules 2 to 5, pendulous from the top of the cell; fruit woody, elliptic-oblong, 12 to 

 24 mm. long including the calyx limb, longitudinally striate or nearly smooth; seed 

 1, cotyledons convolute. 



The following species should possibly be referred to this one, which was described 

 and figured under the name of Laguncularia purpurea by Gaudichaud in 1826 (Voy. 

 Uranie 481, t. 104), from specimens collected" by him in Guam in 1819. The good, 

 heavy, yellowish-brown, fine-grained wood is used in boat building by the natives 

 of Kaiser Wilhelmsland. On the Malay Peninsula it is used for axles of carts. It 



