60 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 



armed with hooked prickles and catches upon the clothing of men and 

 the fur of animals, so that these plants are common along roadsides. 

 Other wayside plants are the species of Sida, already mentioned, which 

 the natives call ' ' escobilla" (broom) and gather fresh each day for 

 sweeping out their houses. 



The commonest grasses are Andropogon acicidatas, Capriola dac- 

 tylon, Centotheca lappacea, Chaetochloa glauca aurea, Dactyloctenium 

 aegyptiacum, Eleusine indica, Dimeria chloridiformis, EcliinocJdoa 

 colona, Eragrostis pilosa, Eragrostis tenella, Isachne minuttda, Ischae- 

 mum digitatum polystachyum, IscJiaemum, chordattim, Panicum di- 

 stachywn, Paspafotm serobiculatum, and Stenotaphrum subulatum. 

 Associated with grasses are often found the creeping Com.melina 

 benghalensls and Commelina nudiflora, and Zygomenes cristata, with 

 scorpioid cymes of blue flowers inclosed in large falcate, imbricating 

 bracts. 



Among the sedges are Carex densiflora, Carex fuirenoides, Cladium 

 gaudic/iaudii, Cyperus rotundus, Cyperus difformis, several species of 

 Fimbristylis, Eulrena umbellata, Eleocharis capitata, E. planta- 

 ginoidea, Kyllinga monocephala, Mariscus albescens, and Pynchospora 

 corymbosa. 



VILLAGE ENVIRONS. 



Besides the trees mentioned above as growing on the sites of aban- 

 doned gardens many others are planted about the villages. Oranges, 

 lemons, limes, citrons, shaddocks, and bergamots are common. In 

 many gardens grow the pomegranate, atis, or sugar apple (Annona 

 squamosa); laguana or soursop {Annona muricata); papaya (Carica 

 papaya); Bixa orellana, with burs resembling beechnuts and seed sur- 

 rounded by a red coloring matter; coffee which yields abundant crops; 

 bananas and plantains of several varieties; vines of betel pepper (Piper 

 beile) covering trees and walls^ bushes of the fragrant henna, or ; ' cina- 

 momo" (Lawsonia inermis), which in Jamaica is called the mignonette 

 tree; the oleander, crape myrtle, and scarlet hibiscus, planted for the 

 sake of their flowers* and ornamental species of Ph3*llaurea, and of 

 Acanthaceae and Araliaceae, planted for the sake of their foliage. 

 Along the roadsides are fine mango trees; Melia azedarach, the "pride 

 of India,"' bearing clusters of lavender flowers with dark violet stamens; 

 the horse-radish tree (Moringa moringa) (PI. LVIII), here called 

 "marunggai;" the silk-cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra), called '"algodon 

 de Manila;"" the leguminous Agati grandiflora. called "katurai" (PI. 

 VI), with edible flowers and seed pods; Polnciana pidckerrima, called 

 "flower fence" in the British West Indies, bearing racemes of beau- 

 tiful red and yellow flowers; the Indian almond (Terminalia catappa), 

 here called " fcalisai," a' handsome tree with a straight trunk, whorls of' 

 horizontal branches, and large, glossy, deciduous leaves, which turn 

 red before falling off. 



