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Handaramai (Guam). See Pipturus argenteus. 



Haplachne pilosissima Presl. Same as Dimeria chloridiformis. 



Haras (Philippines). See Foeniculum focniculurn. 



Hasmin (Guam). See Jasminum grandiflorum. 



Hasmin dikike (Guam). See Jasminum officinale. 



Hayo or Hayu (Guam). Vernacular word for tree or wood (Malayan "Kayu"). 



Hayun-lago (Guam). 



The name of an introduced tree, mentioned by Freycinet, signifying "foreign 

 wood;" not identified, but evidently belonging to the Fabaceae. 



Hayun-mananas (Guam). 



A tree given in the list of woods forwarded by Governor Olive y Garcia to the 

 captain-general of the Philippines; not identified. 



Hayun-palaoan (Guam). 



Name of a tree in Olive's list, signifying "female tree" or "shewood;" used in 

 house building; not identified. 

 Hedge acacia. See Leucaena glauca. 

 Hedge plants. See Fence and hedge plants. 

 Hedionda (Porto Rico). See Cassia occidenlalis. 

 Hediondilla (Porto Rico). See Leucaena glauca. 

 Hedysarum diphyllum L. Same as Zornia diphylla. 

 Hedysarum gangeticum L. Same as Meibomia gangetica. 

 Hedysarum triflorum L. Same as Meibomia triflora. 

 Hedysarum umbellatum L. Same as Meibomia umbellata. 

 Heleocharis. A modified spelling of Eleocharis. 

 Heliotrope, cultivated. See Heliotropium peruvianum. 

 Heliotrope, Indian. See Heliotropium indicum. 

 Heliotrope, beach. See Heliotropium curassavicum. 



Heliotropium curassavicum. Beach heliotrope. 



Family Boraginaceae. 



Local names. — Hunig-tasi (Guam) ; Cotorrera de la Playa (Porto Rico) ; Alacran- 

 cillo de Playa (Cuba). 

 A much-branched, prostrate, glabrous, and glaucous perennial, often somewhat 

 succulent, spreading sometimes to 60 or 90 cm. Leaves linear-oblanceolate or oblong, 

 usually obtuse and narrowed into a short petiole, or the upper sessile, rarely obovate, 

 rather thick, inconspicuously veined; scorpioid spikes dense, bractless, mostly in 

 pairs; flowers sessile, calyx segments acute; corolla white with a yellow eye, or 

 changing to blue; stigma umbrella-shaped; anthers acuminate; fruit globose. 

 A common weed on sandy seashores. 

 References: 

 Heliotropium curassavicum L. Sp. PI. 1 : 130. 1753. 



Heliotropium indicum. Scorpion weed. 



Local names. — Berbena (Guam); Cotorrera (Porto Rico); Trompa de elefante 

 (Manila); Alacrancillo (Cuba, Mexico); Flor del alacran (Panama). 

 An annual, hirsute, herbaceous weed with dense, elongate, scorpioid spikes of small 

 blue flowers. Stems 15 to 45 cm. long; leaves alternate or subopposite, 2.5 to 10 cm. 

 long; petioled, ovate, subserrate, more or less woolly; spikes 2.5 to 20 cm. long; sepals 

 linear; corolla tube narrow-cylindric; lobes small, round, crenate; stigma conoid- 

 linear; fruit 3.5 mm. long, ovoid, ribbed, soon separating into 2 miter-like nutlets, 

 each nutlet with 2 cavities in addition to the seed-bearing cells. 



