362 # USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 



Indigenous to Mexico and other parts of tropical America, now spread throughout 

 the warmer regions of the globe. In Guam, as in the Hawaiian Islands, it forms 

 extensive thickets or patches of scrubby growth on abandoned fields and open places. 

 It will not grow in the shade of the woods. The fruit is of good quality, but owing 

 to scarcity of sugar on the island the natives do not utilize it much for making dulces. 

 The wood is sometimes used for making tool handles and for fuel. 



References: 



Psidium guajava L. Sp. PI. 1 : 470. 1753. 

 Psophocarpus tetrag-onolobus. Same as Botor tetragonoloba. 

 Psychotria herbacea. Same as Carinta herbacea. 

 Psychotria mariana. Aploghating. 



Family Rubiaceae. 



Local names. — Aploghating, Aplokhating (Guam). 

 A glabrous shrub or small tree with compressed branchlets and peduncles; leaves 

 ovate-oblong or obovate, rather obtuse, attenuate at the base, subcoriaceous, turning 

 purplish on drying; stipules caducous; terminal cymes peduncled, shorter than the 

 leaves, twice 3-divided; flowers sessile on the divisions of the inflorescence and ter- 

 minating the branches; calyx with limb campanulate, truncate or obtusely dentate, 

 or sometimes irregularly split; corolla short-campanulate, the bud obovate; berries 

 red. Collected on the island of Guam by Haenke and described from type specimen 

 in Haenke' s collection. The wood is durable and is used in the construction of 

 houses. It is included in the list sent by Governor Olive y Garcia to the captain- 

 general of the Philippines. 



References: 



Psychotria mariana Bartl.; DC. Prod. 4: 522. 1830. 

 Pteris. See Ferns. 

 Pua (Banda). See Areca cathecu. 

 Pu' a ( Samoa) . See Hernandia peltala. 

 Puah (Amboina). See Areca cathecu. 

 Puapua (Samoa). See Gueitarda speciosa. 

 Puavai (Samoa). See Jatropha curcas. 

 Pudding-pipe tree. See Cassia fistula. 

 Puga (Guam). See under Oryza satira. 

 Pugua (Guam). See Areca cathecu. 



Pugua machena (Guam). A climbing fern, Davallia solida. 

 Pummelo. See Citrus decumana. 

 Punica granatum. Pomegranate. 



Family Punicaceae. 



Local names. — Granada (Spanish); Dalima (Philippines). 

 A shrub or small tree with oblong, obovate, or lanceolate entire leaves; cultivated 

 in all warm countries for the sake of the refreshing pulp of its fruit. Flowers usually 

 bright scarlet, with a leathery top-shaped calyx divided at the top into 5 or 7 valvate 

 lobes; petals as many as the divisions of the calyx and alternating with them, or 

 in double-flowered varieties numerous; stamens many, inserted around the mouth 

 of the calyx; style long, bent, stigma capitate; fruit usually the size of an apple, 

 globose, bearing the persistent calyx, many-celled, containing very many angular 

 seeds, with coriaceous testa and watery outer coat containing a pelucid red juice of a 

 pleasant acid flavor. A cooling sherbet is made from the juice which is greatly 

 appreciated by those living in warm countries. 



The hard rind of the fruit is astringent and in some countries is used in tanning 

 and in dyeing. The bark is used as a tan and dye for leather, and the astringent 



