342 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 



V Palm, Ivory-nut. See Coelococcu'i amicarum. 



Palm-lily. See Taetsia teDitinali-i. 

 j/Palm, Nipa. See yiipafruticans. 



Palm, Rattan. 



A species oi climbing Calamus, not itleutifieil, calleil "l«-huko balom-tano" by 



the natives. 



Palm, sago. See Coeloi-occus amictn-uiii. 



Palm, scre'w. 



General* name for the species of Pandanus. (More commonly known as screw- 

 pines, but allied to the palms. ) 

 Palm, sugar. See Saffuerus phmalux. 

 Palma. 



This name is applied generically by many Spanish writers to the various species of 

 Pandanus growing on the island. 

 Palma brava (Guam). 



A small, graceful, pinnate-leaved palm with a strong, slender, elastic trunk, of 

 which carrying sticks and shafts of carts are made. Introduced, but now widely 

 spread on the island; not identified. 

 Palma de Marfil (Spanish). See Coelococcn.t amicarum. 

 Palmeae. See Arecaceae. 



Palo de jagueca (Porto Eico). See Tlie-tpesia papulnea. 

 Palo del Brazil. See Biancaea sappan. 

 Palo llaria (Spanish). 



See Calophylhtm inophylltim. 

 Fanabdlong (Philippines). See Lobelia koenigii. 

 Fanago or Banago (Guam). See Jasminum mariamim. 

 Panao (Guam). 



A tree mentioned by Governor Olive which furnishes boards for construction. 

 Unidentified; referred by Gaudichaud tti the genus Claoxylon. In the Philippines 

 'this name is applied to Dipterocarpus hispidus. 

 Panax cochleatum. Same as XoOwpaiiax cochkatum. 

 Panax concliifolium Roxb. Same as Xolliopanaj: cochleatum. 

 Panax, cut-leaved. See Xothopanax fruiicosum. 

 Panax fruticosum. Same as Xothopnnax fniticosum. 



Pancratium littorale. SpmEB lilt. 



Family AmaryUidaceae. 



Local names. — Lirio (Guam); Ahos-ahos nga mapoti (Philippines); Seaside 

 daffodil (English). 



A bulbous plant growing along the seashore and in moist sandy places, with 

 umbels of fragrant white flowers. Perianth with a cylindrical tube and 6 linear 

 segments; stamens 6, the filaments free above, but webbed and united into a funnel- 

 shaped cup below; anthers narrow, versatile; ovary 3-celled with 2 ovules in each 

 cell, bearing a long slender style and capitate stigma; leaves star-shaped. 



This plant is of comparatively recent introduction into Guam. It has spread 

 rapidly and covere acres of coast near Agana. The flowere burst into bloom at about 

 half past 4 o'clock in the afternoon. 



REPEHEXCiS: 



Pancratium littorale Jacq. Select. Stirp. Amer. 99. 1763. 

 HipnenocalHs littoralis f^nYii-h. Trans. Hort. Soc. 1:338. 1812. 

 The genus Pancratium as established by Linujeus in Species Plantarum 1: 290. 

 1753, and Genera Plantarum ed. 5. 141. 1754, was adopted from the Pancratium of 



