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used in garlands. The first Nauruan to plant lantana was reportedly a woman by the name
of Magiroa who stole it from a garden of an expatriate British Phosphate Company
employee, hence the Nauruan name. 2, 3(58599, 58798), 4(101N), 5(42), 6, 7, 8(9563).
Lantana camara L. var. "drap d'or" "cloth of gold lantana"
Recent introduction. Trop. America. Rare. Cultivar with single-colored yellow
flowers. Planted ornamental. 3, 6.
Premna serratifolia L. "premna"
idibiner, idibinerr (N); te ango (K); aloalo, valovalo, te ango (T)
syns. P. obtusifolia R. Br.; P. gaudichaudii Schauer; P. mariannarum Gaud. ex
Schauer; P. in.regrifolia L.; P. tairensis Schauer; P. corymbosa (Burm.f.)
Rottl. & Willd. ; P. alba Lam. ; P. an.gustifolia Lam. ; P. paulobarbata
Lam.
Indigenous. Indopacific. Common. Small, nearly glabrous shrub or small tree, up
to 5 m or higher, with minutely puberulent youngest branches; leaves, 2 to 15 cm long
and 1 to 9 cm wide, opposite, elliptic to oblong-ovate or suborbicular, subacuminate to
blunt, sometimes short-mucronate, base rounded or obtuse to subcordate, chartaceous,
shiny, usually ventrally concave, glabrate or minutely puberulent dorsally on nerves, 4 to
7 pairs of lateral nerves; petioles 0.5 to 6 cm long; inflorescences, terminal, sometimes
also axillary, richly-branched, many-flowered, corymbose clusters, 3 to 10 cm or more
across; peduncles, up to 2 cm long; pedicels, up to 1 mm long; bracts, to 5 mm long,
paired at each node, subulate to narrowly lanceolate, persistent; calyx, 1.5 to 2 mm long
at anthesis, cupular, bilabiate, minutely 4- to 5-toothed or subtruncate, minutely puberu-
lent on both surfaces; corolla, 2.5 to 4 mm long, tubular or short-hypocrateriform to
subrotate, tube up to 2.5 cm long, 4- to 5-lobed, somewhat bilabiate, the longest lobe to
1.5 cm long, greenish; stamens 4 or rarely 5, 1.2 to 2.4 mm long, 2 longer, 2 shorter,
very slightly exserted or included; fruit, 2 to 4 mm across, subglobose, glabrous, green
turning purple-black at maturity. Common tree on coastal strip and in escarpment forest;
common in home gardens. Timber used for house rafters in the past; wood considered to
be among the best firewood for cooking pandanus; leaves boiled with coconut oil to scent
it; flowers used in garlands; young leaves used as poultices to help wounds heal. 1(49.R),
2(8.5), 3(58597, 58633), 5, 6, 7(27810).
Stachytarpheta jamaicensis (L.) Vahl "Jamaica vervain", "blue rat's tail"
edidubai, edidubaiy (N); te uti ("lice")(K)
syns. Verbena jamaicensis L. ; Stachytarpheta indica (L.) Vahl
Pre-World War I1 introduction. Trop. America. Extinct? Erect, sparsely-
branching perennial subshrub, up to about 1 in high; leaves, 4 to 11 cm long and 2.5 to 5