204 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 
Bugos (Philippines). See Acalypha indica. 
Bukike (Guam). See Clitoria ternatea; also called the ‘‘ queen’s cloak”? (capa de la 
reina). 
Bulak (Philippines). Vernacular for all cottons (Gossypium spp. ). 
Bulakan (Philippines). See Thespesia populnea. 
Bullock’s heart. See Annona reticulata. 
Bululacao (Philippines). See Argyreia tiliaefolia. 
Bunga (Philippines). See Areca cathecu. 
Buntot capon (Philippines). A fern, Asplenium faleatum. 
Burgrass. See Centotheca lappacea. 
Burweed. See the species of Triumfetta; also Urena sinuata. 
Butabuta (Philippines). See Excoecaria agallocha, 
Button sedge. See Ayllinga monocephala. 
Buyo (Philippines). See Piper betle. 
Caballero (Guam). See Poinciana pulcherrima,. 
Cabbage. See Gardens. 
Cabello del angel (Spanish). 
A name applied in Guam to the cypress vine, Quamoclit quamoclit. 
Cabinet woods. 
Among the trees furnishing wood suitable for cabinetwork may be mentioned the 
following: Adenanthera paronina, Artocarpus communis, Barringtonia speciosa, Bru- 
guiera gymnorhiza, Calophyllum inophyllum, Eugenia sp. (‘‘attbang’’), Heritiera lit- 
toralis, Intsia bijuga, Melia azedarach, Ochrocarpus obovalis, Ochrosia mariannensis, 
Premna gaudichaudii, Terminalia catappa, Thespesia populnea. 
Cabo negro (Spanish). See Saguerus pinnatus. 
Cacahuate or Cacaguate (Guam). 
Local name for the peanut, Arachis hypogaea. 
Cacao (Spanish). See Theobroma cacao. 
Cacara erosa. YAM-BEAN. TURNIP-BEAN, 
Family Fabaceae. 
Locat NAMES.—Hikamas (Guam); Jfeama, Cazotl (Mexieo); Kamas, Tfeamas, 
Hicamas, Sincamas (Philippines); Jfeama dulee (Cuba); Ahipa, Ashipa (South 
America); Fan ko (China). 
A climbing herbaceous plant, with trifoliolate leaves and a turnip-like root. Leaf- 
lets large, stipellate, membranous, deltoid-ovate, angular, toothed, pubescent beneath 
or glabrescent; flowers bluish or purplish, in long lax racemes with fascicled pedi- 
cels, the lower nodes often prolonged into short) branches; bracts and bracteoles 
bristle-like, caducous; calyx 2-lipped, the upper lip emarginate, the lower deeply 
3-toothed; corolla much exserted, wings semilunate with a long projection at the 
base, the petals subequal; keel obtuse; stamens diadelphous (1 and 9), filaments 
alternately shorter; style with a crenulate nectarial ring around the base, spirally 
incurved at the apex, almost as in the Phaseoli; stigma large, round, oblique; legume 
linear, turgid, compressed, laterally coatracted between the seeds, of a dark-brown 
color, sparsely hairy; seeds nearly circular, flat, smooth. 
This plant, which Loth in Guam and the Philippines bears its Mexican name, was 
probably brought from Mexico. It is now common in the woods, climbing among 
the bushes and trees and twining about everything with which it comes in contact. 
The young root is much like a turnip in shape and consistency, and is easily peeled 
like aturnip. It is usually eaten raw, and may be prepared with oil and vinegar 
in the form ofa salad. According to Dr. Edward Palmer it is extensively cultivated 
