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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; stigmas 

 plumose; grain loosely inclosed in the scale and palet. 



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

 tiacum and Capriola dactylon. 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. 

 Entada scandens. See Lens phaseoloides. 

 Enteromorpha. See Algse. 

 Eperua decandra. Same as Lntsia bijuga. 

 Epidendrum fasciola. Same as Taeniophyllum fasciola. 

 Epidendrum triste. Same as Luisia teretifolia. 



Epiphytal 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. 

 Liuisia teretifolia. — An orchid with inconspicuous flowers. 

 Lycopodium phlegmaria. — Growing in graceful pendent tassels. 

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



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

 Ophiodermis pendulum. — Hanging like ribbons from the branches. 

 Piper sp. P. — A pepper called "podpod" by the natives, mentioned by Gaudichaud. 

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



oak leaf. 

 Taeniophyllum fasciola. — An orchid. 

 Vittaria elong-ata. — 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. a See under Grasses. 

 Eranthemum sp. See under Acanthacese. 

 Erianthus floridulus. Same as Xipheagrostis floridulus. 

 Eriodendron anfractuosum. Same as Ceiba pentandra. 



Erythrina indica. East Indian coral tree. 



Family Fabaceae. 



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

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



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

 with prickles 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, 



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



