288 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 



Guava. See Psidium guajava. 



Guayaba, guayava (Spanish). See Psidium guajava; in Guam called "abas." 



Gueg-ue (Guam). See Ambulia indica and A. fragrans. 



Guettarda speciosa. Zebrawood. 



Family Rubiaceae. 



Local names. — Balaiigigan (Philippines); Zebrawood, Tambari-barisa (Mada- 

 gascar); Buabua (Fiji); Puapua (Samoa). 



A small evergreen tree with fragrant white, jasmine-like flowers, growing near the 

 seabeach. Branchlets stout, short; petioles, leaves beneath, and usually the inflo- 

 resence pubescent; leaves opposite or 3 in a whorl, with ovate, pubescent, deciduous 

 stipules between the petioles, broadly obovate, 12 to 25 cm. long by 10 to 18 cm. broad, 

 tip acute, obtuse, or rounded, the base obtuse or cordate, petiole 3.5 cm. long; cymes 

 usually from the axils of fallen leaves, long-peduncled, with spreading dichotomous 

 few-flowered branches; calyx velvety, truncate limb deciduous; corolla imbricate, 

 3.5 cm. long, softly pubescent; limb 2.5 cm. in diameter, segments 4 to 9, obovate; 

 stamens 4 to 9, inserted in the mouth of the corolla, subsessile; drupe woody, globose 

 or depressed; endocarp 4 to 9-celled, with as many grooves and angles, perforated at 

 the top opposite the cells; cells curved, 1-seeded. 



A plant of wide distribution in the Pacific and on the tropical shores of Australia, 

 India, and Eastern Africa. In Samoa and Fiji the natives string the fragrant flowers 

 into necklaces. In India a perfume is extracted from them. They bloom in the 

 evening and drop to the ground before morning. 



It is interesting to note that the seeds of this species are among those collected by 

 Doctor Guppy in the drift on the beach of islands in the Solomon group. Its wide 

 distribution on tropical shores is evidently the result of the fact that the seeds are 

 carried by ocean currents. 

 References: 



Guettarda speciosa L. Sp. PI. 2: 991. 1753. 



Guilandina bonducella. Same as Guttandina a-ista. 



Guilandina crista. Molucca bean. Nickernut. Plate li. 



Family Fabaceae. 



Local names. — Pacao, Pakao (Guam); Unasdegato (Spanish); Guacalote prfeto 

 (Cuba); Anaoso (Samoa); Tataramoa (Rarotonga«); Kakalaioa (Hawaii); 

 Bayag cambing, Calambit ( Philippines) . 

 A shrub with climbing or loosely spreading branches, armed with numerous scat- 

 tered sharp, recurved prickles, especially on the petiole and rachis of the leaves, 

 pubescent or villous in all its parts. Leaves abruptly bipinnate; common petiole 30 

 to 45 cm. long, pinnae in 4 to 6 distant pairs, spreading nearly at right angles, each 

 10 to 15 cm. long; leaflets 5 to 8 pairs to each pinna, oblong, often mucronate, 2 to 2.5 

 cm. long; stipules deciduous; racemes 10 to 15 cm. long, simple or branched in the 

 upper axils; flowers shortly pedicellate and crowded in the upper part; bracts with 

 a long recurved point, deciduous; calyx about 4 lines long; sepals united at the base 

 into a short tube lined by the disk, bearing at its margin the petals and stamens; 

 petals 5, oblanceolate, yellow, little exserted; stamens 10, free; ovary sessile, with 2 

 ovules; pods in crowded clusters, short-stalked, "broadly ovate-oblong, 5 to 7.5 cm. 

 long, coriaceous, covered with very sharp prickles; seeds, mostly 2, large, of a bluish- 

 gray or lead color, smooth, glossy, nearly round and very hard. The cotyledons are 

 closely appressed and do not fill the shell, but leave an air space which gives buoy- 

 ancy to the seed. (See PI. XV. ) 



a The Rarotongan name signifies "cockspur;" the Hawaiian name "thorny." 



