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Hufa (Guam). See Heritiera littoralis. 

 Huisache (Texas). See Acacia farnesiana. 



Humata heterophylla. Umata fern. Plate liii. 



Family Polypodiaceae. 

 A creeping fern with dimorphous fronds, the sterile ones ovate-lanceolate or 

 lanceolate, entire or slightly lobed at the base, the fertile ones narrower, deeply 

 sinuate-pinnatifid, the lobes coarsely crenate; sori 2 to 10 to a lobe; involucre 

 ample, coriaceous, suborbicular or reniform, attached by a broad base, the apex 

 and sides free. This genus was founded by Cavanilles on specimens collected by 

 Nee, who visited Guam in company with Haenke with the Malaspina expedition. 

 It was named for the village of Humata (or Humatag), now called Umata, on the 

 west coast of the island south of the peninsula of Orote. 

 References: 

 Humata heterophylla (Sm.) J. Sm. Hook. Journ. 3: 416. 1841. 

 Davallia heterophylla Sm. Act. Taur. 5 : 415. 1793. 

 Humata pinnatifida Cav . Prael. no. 679, 1801. 

 Humata pinnatifida. Same as Humata heterophylla. 

 Hunig or Hunik (Guam). See Tournefortia argentea. 

 Hunig-tasi (Guam). See Heliotropium curassavicum. 

 Hydrocotyle asiatica L. Same as Centella asiatica. 

 Hygrolejeunea. See Hepaticse. 



Hymenocallis littoralis. Same as Pancratium littorale. 

 Hypnum. See Mosses. 



Hypoxis aurea. Golden star-grass. 



Family Amaryllidaceae. 

 A small hairy plant with grass-like leaves and yellow, star-like flowers. Rootstock 

 tuberous; leaves radical, narrowly linear; scape filiform, hairy, with one or two 

 flowers; bracts setaceous; perianth rotate, 6-parted, yellow within, sessile on the top 

 of the ovary, persistent; ovary and perianth lobes externally hairy, 3 outer lobes 

 green on the back; flowers dioecious; stamens 6 on the base of the segments, fila- 

 ments short, anthers sagittate; ovary clavate; capsule at length 3-valved, crowned 

 with the erect perianth-lobes; seeds black, tuberculate. 



Common in Guam on the treeless sabanas, especially on Mount Makahna near 

 Fonte, back of Agafia. 

 The species is widely spread in the Philippines, India, Java, China, and Japan. 

 References: 

 Hypoxis aurea Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 200. 1790. 



Hyptis capitata. Same as Mesosphaerum capitatum. 

 Hyptis pectinata Poit. Same as Mesosphaerum pectinatum* 



Icacorea sp. 



Family Myrsinaceae. 



Local names. — Otot, Otud, Utud, Utug (Guam). 

 A low shrub with simple, alternate, lanceolate leaves, bearing racemes of small, 

 red, globose berries of a pleasant acid flavor like that of tamarinds. The berry con- 

 tains a single hard globose seed, flattened at the base, with its envelope covered with 

 longitudinal or radiating striations. 



The berries have a pleasant acid flavor like barberries. Birds are fond of them, 

 but they are not usually eaten by the natives. 



If (New Guinea), Ifi (Samoa). See Bocoa edulis. 



Ifi-lele (Samoa). See Intsia bijuga. 



