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few-flowered, lax, the pedicels slender, about 5 mm long. 
Perianth campanulate, 8 to 10 mm long. Calyx 5 mm long, the 
teeth ovate, 1 to 1.5 mm long. Corolla-lobes oblong-ovate, obtuse, 
5 mm long, 3 mm wide, margins slightly short-ciliate, the corolla- 
tube villous inside. Stamens 3; filaments glabrous 2 mm long; 
anthers orbicular, one about 2 mm in diameter, the other two 1.5 
mm in diameter, apices rounded-truncate, short-ciliate, the con- 
nectives broad. Fruit fleshy, globose, about 1 cm in diameter, 
glabrous, somewhat glaucous and much wrinkled when dry. 
Seeds numerous, flat, thickened, elliptic-obovate, rounded, base 
subacute, about 4 mm long, 2 mm wide, and 0.5 mm thick, the 
margins obscurely thickened. 
Guam Experiment Station 11, Tumon, November, 1911. 
A species in vegetative characters strongly resembling Melothria mucro- 
nata Cogn., but not closely allied to that species. Its distinguishing char- 
acters are its being monocious, its comparatively large male flowers, its 
lax, few-flowered racemes, and its globose fruits. It does not appear to 
be very closely allied to any described species. 
MOMORDICA Linnaeus 
MOMORDICA CHARANTIA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 1009; Safford 326. 
G. E. S. 21, McGregor 1^68, locally known as almagoso. 
In all tropical countries, cultivated and wild. 
GOODENIACEAE 
SCAEVOLA Linnaeus 
SCAEVOLA FRUTESCENS (Mill.) Krause in Engl. Pfianzenreich 54 
(1912) 125. 
Lobelia frutescens Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8 (1768) no. 1. 
Scaevola koenigii Vahl Symb. 3 (1794) 36. 
Lobelia koenigii W. F. Wight ex Safford in Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 9 
(1905) 310. 
McGregor U01, G. E. S. 8i, local name nanaso. 
Mr. W. F. Wight, on the principle of generic types, has referred this 
species to Lobelia, and proposes to refer the species of Lobelia of modern 
authors to Rapuntium, but Mr. Wight’s proposition has not been considered 
by Dr. Krause in his recent monograph of the Goodeniaceae. I have dis- 
cussed the matter previously, and prefer to retain the species under Scae- 
vola. Both of the Guam specimens have softly velutinous leaves. 
Along the seashore, India to Polynesia. 
COMPOSITAE 
AGERATUM Linnaeus 
AGERATUM CONYZOIDES Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 839; Safford 176. 
McGregor i8i, G. E. S. 1. 
A native of tropical America, now in all tropical countries. 
