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rachis, which is not extended beyond them; flowers perfect or the upper staminate; 

 scales compressed, minutely keeled, scabrous on the keel, the 2 lower empty, the 

 others subtending flowers or the upper empty; stamens 3; styles distinct; stiga-.as 

 plumose; grain loosely inclosed in the scale and palet. 



Common in Guam, growing in sandy places, associated with Dactyloclenium aegyp- 

 tiacum and Capriola daclylon. A grass distributed widely in the tropical and temper- 

 ate regions of the world. Common in North America. 

 References: 

 Eleusine indica Gaertn. Fruct. 1 : 8. 1788. 

 Enredadera (Spanish). 



A general name for climbers. See Climbing plants. 



Entada pursaetha. Same as Lens phaseoloides. 



£ntada scandens. See Lens phaseoloides. 



£iiteroinorph.a. See Algse. 



!Eperua decandra. Same as Intsia bijuga. 



Epidendrum fasciola. Same as Taeniophyllum fasciola. 



Epidendrum triste. Same aa Luisia teretifolia. 



l/^piphytal plants: 



Cyclophorus adnascens. — A climbing fern, with small simple, linear-lanceolate 



fronds. 

 Davallia solida. — A climbing fern, with glossy green divided fronds. 

 Dischidia puberula. — An asclepiad, with small fleshy leaves. 

 Humata heterophylla. — A creeping fern. 

 Luisia teretifolia. — An orchid with inconspicuous flowers. 

 Lycopodium phlegmaria. — Growing in graceful pendent tassels. 

 Neottopteris nidus. — The bird's-nest fern. 



ITephrolepis acuta. — A fern with long, slender, simply pinnate fronds. 

 Ophiodermis pendulum. — Hanging like ribbons from the branches. 

 Piper sp. ?. — A pepper called "podpod" bythe natives, mentioned by Gaudichaud. 

 Phyiuatodes phymatodes. — A climbing fern, with leathery, lobed fronds, like an 



oak leaf. 

 Taeniophyllum fasciola. — An orchid. 

 Vittaria elongata. — Ribbon fern growing in grass-like tufts. 



Eragrostis. 



A genus of grasses distinguished by having the inflorescence in compound or 

 decompound panicles, spikelets 4 to 10-flowered; glumes imbricated in two ranks, 

 the upper reflexed, with the edges turned back; stamens 2 or 3; styles 2, with 

 feathery stigmas; seeds loose, 2-horned, not furrowed. Three species have been 

 collected in Guam: Eragrostis pilosa, E. tenella, and E. plumosa, the last regarded by 

 Hooker as a variety of the preceding species. « See under Grasses. 

 Eranthemum sp. See under Acanthacese. 

 Erianthus floridulus. Same as Xipheagrostis floridulus. 

 Eriodendron anfractuosum. Same as Ceiba peniandra. 

 /^ Erythrina indica. East Indian coral tree. 



Family Fabaceae. 



Local names. — Gabgab, Gapgap, or Gaogao (Guam); Dapdap (Philippines, 

 Malay Archipelago); Gatae, Ngatae (Rarotonga, Samoa); Pinon (Cuba). 

 A moderate-sized, quick-growing tree with straight trunk, which is usually armed 

 with pi'ickles when young, pinnately trifoliolate leaves and dense racemes of large 

 scarlet blossoms; leaflets membranous, glabrous, the end one round-cuspidate, trun- 

 cate, or broadly rhomboidal at the base; calyx oblique, spathaceous, minutely 

 5-toothed at the very tip, finally split to the base down the back; petals very unequal, 



"See Flora Brit. Ind. vol. 7, pp. 315, 323, 1897, where these species are described. 



