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TABLE OF VERNACULAR NAMES ON PINGELAP AND ADJACENT ISLANDS ( Continued ) 
PLANT SPECIES 
ISLANDS AND LIST OF VERNACULAR PLANT NAMES 
Pingelap 
Ponape 
Truk 
Kusaie 
Marshall Is. 
Asclepias 
curassavica 
*kimeme 
*kepok 
(“kapok), 
*ialu 
(=yellow) 
Messerschmidia 
argentea 
*sesen 
titm 
emoloset, 
amaloset, 
amoneset, 
chen 
sasran, 
*shawshon 
*krin, kirin, 
*kurin, *girin, 
kidrin 
Clerodendrum 
inerme 
*ilau 
Haw 
ulo, apuech, 
apuoch, 
apwoch, etiu, 
pucherik 
*wuletch, 
*wules, ulij 
Premna 
integrifolia 
*sokuk 
topuk, tupuk, 
awr 
lior, 
nior, umukau, 
umukaii 
*fienket, fiankig 
*kar, *gar 
Pseuderanthe- 
mum atropur- 
pureum 
*sarinairam 
kaiwak 
*jemla wulues 
Guettarda 
speciosa 
*eles 
ith 
mosor 
*wudilonaro, 
*wutilumar, 
*wutilomar, 
*wudilomar, 
♦wudinakatche, 
wut 
Ixora 
carolinensis 
*kalesu 
katiu 
atiu, achiu, 
achen 
galusa, kalce 
*kajiru, *gajiru 
Morinda 
citrifolia 
*obul 
’umpul, woipel, 
weipul, kirikei 
nobur, nopur, 
alin, arin, nen 
*ee, e, hi 
*nin, nen 
Scaevola 
frutescens 
*ramek (on 
Woleai Is., 
called: 
ramakaa) 
rarnuk, inuk, 
enat 
not, nat, 
amaloset 
> 
kusros 
*kunnat, 
*kunnat, 
*gunnat, 
konnat, 
*kennat, 
ka-na-ta, 
*kanun, 
mar kinat 
Wedelia biflora 
*kisuwell 
ngkau 
atiwot, atuat, 
atuot, eadiat 
agaia, *ekeh 
*morijetch, 
♦marijetch, 
*marjatch, 
marajej, 
morigides, 
*markibuebue, 
*margkiwewe, 
*margiwewe, 
markueue, 
*buTlibuili- 
kath 
