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Merrill: Plants of Guam 
SCIRPUS Linnaeus 
SCIRPUS ERECTUS Poir. in Lam. Encycl. 6 (1804) 671. 
G. E. S. 215, along banks of streams. 
Warmer parts of both hemispheres. 
SCLERIA Bergius 
8CLERIA LAXA R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 240. 
McGregor 493, G. E. S. 173. 
The determination has been made from the description only, and I am 
not satisfied that it is correct. Australia. 
SCLERIA M ARGARITI FERA Willd. Sp. PI. 4 (1805) 312. 
McGregor 540. 
Apparently quite the same as Volken’s Yap specimen, so named. Aus- 
tralia and Polynesia. 
TORULINIUM Desvaux 
TORULINIUM FERAX (Rich.) Ham. Prodr. PI. Ind. Occ. (1825) 15. 
Cyperus ferax Rich, in Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris 1 (1792) 106. 
G. E. S. 305. 
Warmer parts of both hemispheres. 
PALMAE 
ARECA Linnaeus 
ARECA CATHECU Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 1189; Safford 187, pi. 35. 
G. E. S. 184, 834, locally known as pugua. 
Of prehistoric introduction in Guam; widely distributed in the Indo- 
Malayan region, cultivated in other tropical countries. 
ARENGA LabillardiMe 
ARENGA GAMUTO (Houtt.) comb. nov. 
Saguerus gamuto Houtt. Handl. 1 (1773) 410, t. 4, f- 2. 
Saguerus pinnatus Wurmb. in Verh. Batav. Genoot. 1 (1779) 351; 
Safford 268. 
Arenga saccharifera Labill. Mem. Inst. Paris. 4 (1801) 209. 
Occasionally cultivated, introduced from the Philippines fide Safford. 
Widely distributed in the Malayan region. 
COCOS Linnaeus 
COCOS NUCIFERA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 1188; Safford 233, pi. S3, 34. 
McGregor 570, G. E. S. 373, locally known as niyog. 
All tropical countries of prehistoric introduction in Guam; probably of 
American origin. 
COELOCOCCUS H. Wendland 
COELOCOCCUS AMICARUM (Wendl.) W. P. Wight ex Safford in Contr. 
U. S. Nat. Herb. 9 (1905) 244, pi. 45, 46. 
Sagus amicarum Wendl. in Bot. Zeit. 36 (1878) 115. 
Coelococcus carolinensis Dingl. in Bot. Centralbl. 32 (1887) 349. 
G. E. S. 257. 
Occasionally planted, recently introduced fide Safford. A native of the 
Caroline Islands. 
