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This plant varies in the shape of its leaves and the amount of pubescence. It is 

 closely allied to Urena lobata, the "mautofu" of the Samoans. The stem yields a 

 good fiber, of which cordage is made in Japan, but this is not utilized in Guam. 



A common plant in open places; of wide tropical distribution. It blooms the 

 latter part of October. 

 References: 



Urena sinuaki. L. Sp. PI. 2: 692. 1753. 

 TJrticaceae. Nettle family. 



Among the indigenous urticaceous plants are the "amahayan," Boehmeria iena- 

 cissima, which in cultivation produces the celebated rhea fiber; an allied plant 

 with fulvous pubescence called "sayiafl" (not yet identified) ; Pipturus argenteus, the 

 "Queensland grass-cloth plant," called in Samoa "fau-soiiga;" Elatostema peduncu- 

 lata, a plant of the forest, which bears sessile red spherical fruit; the nettle-like 

 Schychowskya interrupta, with coarsely toothed acuminate leaves; the glabrous Schy- 

 chowskya ruderalis; and Pellionia divaricata. 

 TTrtica ar^entea Forst. Same as Pipturus argenteus. 

 TJrtlca interrupta L. Same as Schychowskya interrupta. 

 TJrtica ruderalis Forst. Same as Schychowskya ruderalis. 

 TTrtica tenacissima Roxb. Same as Boehmeria tenacissima 

 Uto (Fiji). See ArtocarpVsS communis. 



Uto-sori (Fiji). See Artocarpus communis; seeded variety. 

 'TJto'uto (Samoa). See Mussaenda frondosa. 

 XTtud or XJtug^ ( Guam ) . See Icacorea sp. 

 tTuma or Ououma. A name referred by Gaudichaud to Panicum gaudichaudii; 



more correctly ' ' umog. ' ' 

 TJvi (Fiji). See Dioscorea alata. 

 Vallisneriaceae. Tapegrass family. 



The only representative of this family in Guam is Halophila ovalis. 

 Vanilla fasciola Gaudich. Same as Taeniophyllum faseiola. 

 Velvetleaf. See Tournefortia argentea. 

 Verbenaceae. Verbena family. 



This? family is represented in Guam by the genera Clerodendron, Vitex, and 

 Premna. 



Verbesina alba L. Same as Eclipia alba. 

 Verbesina argentea. 



In the botany of the Voyage de I'Uranie, Gaudichaud mentions among the plants 

 growing on the hills back of Agana and TJmata, in places where the vegetation was 

 scant, a "Verbesina with silver leaves." This is included in Endlicher's list of South 

 Sea Island plants as " Verbesina? argentea Gaudich. ad Freyc. 464. — Guam archipelagi 

 Mariannae (Gaudich. )." « The plant is not further known. In the locality referred 

 to I have collected two species of yellow composites, both of which are allied to 

 Verbesina, one of them, Slemmodontia canescens, with silvery canescent leaves. It is 

 probable that this is the plant referred to by Gaudichaud as the "silvery-leaved 

 Verbesina." 



References: 



Verbesina argentea Gaudich. Bot. Freyc. Voy. 463. 1826. 

 Verbesina biflora L. Same as Stemmodontia biflora. 

 Verbesina canescens Gaudich. Same as Stemmodontia canescens. 



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