270 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 



standard much exserted and exceeding the keel and wings; wings and keel subequal, 

 not more than half as long as the calyx; upper stamen free down nearly to the base, 

 anthers uniform; ovary stalked, many-ovuled; style incurved, beardless; stigma 

 capitate; pod linear, contracted at intervals. 



In Guam the light soft wood of this tree is used for making troughs. Stakes 

 thrust into the ground readily take root, so that the natives use them for making 

 inclosures about their gardens. 



In Samoa the natives often use the wood for the outriggers of their canoes, and, 

 when dead and dry, for keeping fire in their houses, as it will smolder a long time 

 without going out. 



In India an ointment is made by boiling the leaves with ripe coconut, which is 

 applied to venereal buboes and pains in the joints. The leaves are fed to cattle, and, 

 when young and tender, are eaten in curry. 



In Samoa and in other islands of the Pacific the natives reckon the change of sea- 

 sons by the flowering of this tree. 

 References: 



Erythrina indica Lam. Encyc. 2: 391. 1786. 

 Escoba (Central America). See Sida rhombifolia. 

 Escobang-haba (Philippines). See Sida rhombifolia and S. acuta. 

 Escobilla (Guam) . See Sida rhombifolia and S. acuta. 

 Escobilla papagu (Guam). See Sida glomerata. 

 Esi (Samoa). See Carica papaya. 

 Esi fafine (Samoa). The female papaya. 

 Esi tune (Samoa). The male papaya. 

 Eugenia spp.? 



To this genus were referred two plants collected by Gaudichaud in Guam: A tree 

 called by the natives "aaban," or "aabang," with fine-grained hard wood, yielding 

 logs 30 cm. in diameter and 4.5 in. long; and "agatilon/' or "agatelang," the 

 wood of which is strong and is used in the construction of houses and ranchos. 

 Neither of these trees has been identified. 

 Eugenia malaccensis. Same as Caryophyllus malaccensis. \ 

 Eulalia. See under Xiphagrostis. 



Euphorbia atoto. Spuege. 



Family Euphorbiaceae. 

 Local names. — Atoto (Tahiti). 



A dwarf shrub of wide tropical distribution, in the Pacific extending eastward to 

 Tahiti and northward to the Marianne Islands. Stem shrubby, usually prostrate or 

 decumbent, stout, much-branched, glabrous and shining, thickened at nodes; leaves 

 opposite, shortly petiolate, 18 to 25 mm. long, oval or oblong-oval, obtuse at both 

 ends, entire, glabrous, the upper ones not imbricating; flower heads axillary or in 

 small terminal cymes, stalked; flowers monoecious, small, numerous, without a peri- 

 anth, many male and one female arranged in a common perianth-like involucre, with 

 glands at the mouth, these with very narrow appendages; male flower, stamen 1, 

 pediceled; female flower, ovary pediceled, 3-celled with one ovule in each cell; 

 styles 3; capsule glabrous, of 3 nutlets separating from a central axis, and each split- 

 ting both ventrally and dorsally; capsule glabrous; seed smooth. 



Usually growing near the shore. 

 References: 

 Euphorbia atoto Forst. f. Prod. 36. 1786. 

 Euphorbia gaudichaudii. Gaudichaud' s spurge. 



The entire plant (under the lens) crisply velvety ; stem erect, usually simple; leaves 

 petiolate, subcordate at the base, linear-lanceolate or linear, rather acute, sharply 



