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I am not snre of the identity of the Guam plant. Its glaucous leaves exceed in 

 strength the Samoan and Hawaiian screwpines referred to this species. There is also 

 considerable difference between the Samoan "fala" and the Hawaiian "hala," both 

 in the texture of the leaves and the color of the drupes. 

 Kepeeences : 



Pandanus tectorius Parkinson, Journ. Voy. to the South Sea in H. M. S. 



Endeavor, 46. 1773. 

 Kmra odorifera Forsk. Fl. ^gypt. Arab. 172. 1775. 

 Pandanus odoraiissimus L. f. Suppl. 424. 1781. 

 Pandanus fasdoularis Lam. Encyc. 1: 372. 1783. 

 Pandanus sp. 



Local names. — Paiiigot (Guam). 

 A species of Pandanus grows in Guam in cultivation, the tender young leaves of 

 which are used by the natives as a pot herb, and as a flavoring for various dishes. 

 They taste very much like artichokes. 

 Fangas (Philippines). See Zindber zingiber. 

 Pangdang (Philippines). See Pandanus. 

 Pangi (Philippines). See Panf/unn edule. 

 Pangium edule. 



Family Flacourtiaceae. 



Local names. — Eauiil, Rauwel (Guam, Yap); Parigi (Malayan, Philippines); 

 Boenger (Sumatra); Ani (Amboina). 

 A large tree, introduced into Guam from the island of Yap, bearing large, round, 

 pulpy, edible fruit with numerotis large seeds. Leaves large, alternate, entire or 

 inclining to be 3-lobed, long-petioled, cordate or round-ovate, acuminate, smooth 

 above, hairy below along the veins; flowers of different sexes; calyx roundish, 

 dividing into 2 or 3 unequal segments; petals 5 or 6, each bearing a scale on the inner 

 surface at the base; male flowers with an indefinite number of stamens, having leaf- 

 like filaments and oval anthers; female flowers with 5 or 6 staminodes alternating 

 with the petals; ovary elongate-ovoid, 1-celled, with 2 to 4 placentas, each bearing 

 an indefinite number of seeds; stigma sessile; fruit a large, rounded or oval capsule, 

 which does not split open, with a moderately hard, brown rind; seeds numerous, 

 large, embedded in a, mass of pulp, transverse, egg-shaped or 3-cornered, with a 

 hard shell, covered with conspicuous branching veins, and a long and large hilum. 

 They grow readily when planted fresh; cotyledons very large, leaf-like. 



The sweetish yellow pulp has an onion-like flavor. The seeds contain prussicacid 

 and are ))oi8onous if eaten fresh. They are edible after the poisonous principle has 

 been removed by continued steeping in water. , In the Malay Archipelago they 

 form an important food staple of the natives. The crushed seeds are antiseptic and 

 are used to preserve fish; the bark is used for stupefying fish. The wood is hard." 

 Keferences: 



Pangium edule Reinvv. Syll. Ratisb. 2: 12. 1828 -(ex Ind. Kew.). 

 Panicum colonum. Same as Echinocldoa colona. 

 Panicum distachyum. 

 Family Poaceae. 

 A grass with branched straggling stems, creeping below, slender, quite glabrous or 

 panicle sparsely hairy. Leaves linear or lanceolate, with rounded base, flat; margins 

 of sheath sometimes ciliate, mouth hairy; spikes rarely more than 4, erect, at length 

 spreading; rachis slender, smooth; spikelets solitary, subsessile in 1 or 2 rows, ellip- 

 soid, glabrous, variable in size, pale green. 



"Warburg, Flacourtiaceae, in Engler und Prantl Nat. Pflanzen familien, Teil 3, 

 Abt. 6a, p. 23, 1895. 



