Plant Records from Caroline Islands — Glassman 
299 
70. Oplismenus compositus (L.) Beauv., 
Ess. Agrost., 54. 1812. 
"Moh-long,” 2603. In coconut grove, 
common. 
71. Paspalum vaginatum Sw., Prodr. Veg. 
Ind. Occ., 21. 1788. 
’'Olee-sakai,” 2630. In coconut grove, 
common. 
72. Saccharum officinarum L., Sp. PL, 54. 
1753. 
'Tuh.” Observed as a cultivated plant. 
73. Thuarea involuta (Forst. f.) R. Br., 
Prodr., 197. 1810. 
"Muhkarak,” 2390. In coconut grove, 
common. 
Additional species, not collected or ob- 
served by the writer, for which tentative 
names are given by St. John from native 
names recorded by Murphy: 
Barringtonia asiatica (L.) Kurz. "We.” 
Barringtonia racemosa (L.) BL "Kan- 
ge.” 
Intsia bijuga (Colebr.) O. K. "Kebuk.” 
Ochrosia oppositifolia (Lam.) K. 
Schum. "Kacshpar.” 
PINGELAP 
Pingelap Atoll (Fig. 1) is situated at 6°13'N, 
160°E, and is about 60 miles southeast of 
Mokil and 144 miles northwest of Kusaie. 
It is 2 miles in length and 1.5 miles in width. 
The atoll consists of three islets, Tugulo, 
Takai, and Pingelap. Only the last islet was 
visited by the writer. 
Pingelap, also referred to as Musgrave, 
MacAskill, Pelelep, and Pingoulap, was dis- 
covered by Musgrave with the ship "Sugar 
Cane” in 1793 (U. S., 1944). Moss (1889) 
gave a brief account of the vegetation of Pin- 
gelap which he visited while touring Micro- 
nesia in 1886; and in 1899 Christian men- 
tioned Pingelap plants in his account of the 
Caroline Islands. Thilenius (1927) and Filers 
(1934) included some information on the 
vegetation and listed a number of plants 
based on a general survey of the Caroline 
Islands made by the Germans between 1908 
and 1910. In 1949 Murphy reported on the 
agriculture of the island. The first detailed 
paper on the vascular plants of Pingelap was 
written by St.John (1948) who listed 57 spe- 
Fig. 9. Pingelap. Mangrove swamp showing seedlings of Rhizophora mucronata and surface roots of Sonneratia 
caseolaris. 
