206 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 
Caguios (Philippines). See Cajan eajan. 
Cahel (Mexico, Philippines). See Citrus aurantium and C. aurantium sinensis. 
Céhet, Kaéhet (Guam). See Citrus aurantiumn sinensis. 
Cahuas (Mexico). See Capsicum annuum, 
Cajan cajan. PIGEON PEA, 
Family Fabaceae. 
LocaL NAMEs.——-Lenteha fransesa (Guam); Cadios, Kad-yos, Cadius, Caguios 
(Philippines); Dhal, Dhol (India); Gandul (Porto Rico), 
An erect shrub with 3-foliolate leaves on slender gray silky branchlets; leaflets 
oblong-lanceolate, entire, subcoriaceous, thinly silky above, densely so beneath; stip- 
ules minute, lanceolate; flowers yellow, or the standard veined with red, growing in 
sparsely flowered racemes, often forming a terminal panicle; pod 5 to 7.5 em. long, 
finely downy, tipped with the lower half of the style. 
This plant grows spontaneously in the Sudan, and is cultivated in India, Mada- 
gascar, New South Wales, Jamaica, Malabar, Brazil, and other warm countries. 
The seeds are nutritious and are eaten either green or dry, like peas. The plant will 
live several years, and in good soil begins bearing the first year. It was introduced 
into Guam in 1772 by the French ship Castries, whence its local name, which signi- 
fies ‘* French lentil.’ It is planted at the beginning of the rainy season. 
REFERENCES: 
Cajan cajan (L.) Millsp. Field Col. Mus. Bot. Ser. 2:53. 1900. 
Cytisus cajan L. Sp. Pl. 2: 739. 1753. 
Cajanus indicus Spreng. Syst. 3: 248. 1826. 
Cajanus indicus Spreng. See Cajan cajan. 
Cajel, Kahel (Philippines) or Kéhet (Giuam). See Citrus aurantium and C. auran- 
tim sinensis. 
Calabash tree. See Crescentia alata. 
Calabaza amarilla (Spanish). See Cucurbita marina. 
Calabaza blanca (Spanish). See Benineasa ceriferd. 
Calabaza vinatera (Spanish). See Lagenaria lagenaria, 
Caladium colocasia. Taro. PLATE XXVI. 
Family Araceae. 
Local NAMES.—Suni, Sune (Guam); Songe (Madagascar, Réunion); Gabi, Gave, 
Dagmai (Philippines); Talas, Taloes (Sunda); Talo, Taro, Kalo (Polynesia) ; 
Tao (Marquesas); Chaua (Carolines); Yautia (Porto Rico); (uequeste (Mex- 
ico); Otd (Panama); Eddo, Tania, Coco (British West Indies); Tadala, Gahala 
(Singapore); Kachti (India, Bengal); Culcas, Kolkus, Qolkas (Egypt); Egyp- 
tian Arum (Italy); To-no-imo, Aka-imo, Midsu-imo (Japan). 
A succulent plant with edible, starchy, tuberous rootstock, cultivated in nearly all 
tropical countries of the world, Leaves large, very stoutly peltately petioled, ovate- 
cordate or hastate, with a triangular basal sinus; spathe stoutly peduncled, persistent, 
mouth constricted, limb long, narrow, lanceolate; spadix shorter than the spathe, 
stipitate, terminal appendage variable, cylindric or subulate, or lacking; male and 
female inflorescences distant, male above the female with interposed flat neuters, male 
of densely packed cubical anthers or groups of anthers, with immersed cells opening 
by terminal slits; female of crowded, globose, 1-celled ovaries; stigma pulvinate; 
ovules many, orthotropous; berries obconic or oblong; seeds oblong, furrowed, endo- 
sperm copious, embryo axile. 
Several varieties of taro are cultivated in Guam, some of which were growing on 
the island before its discovery. The petioles are stout, 90 to 120 em. long, green or 
violet; peduncles solitary or clustered and connate, much shorter than the petioles; 
spathe 20 to 45 cm. long, caudate-acuminate, erect, pale vellow; female inflorescence 
