214 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 
Capsicum annuum grossum. BELL PEPPER. 
LocaAL NAMEsS.—Doni (Guam); Chile ancho (Mexico); Chile de Castilla (Philip- 
pines). 
This plant has long been cultivated in Guam. Its flesh is not pungent, and the 
natives frequently prepare it for the table by stuffing it with minced meat and then 
cooking it. It grows here almost like a shrub to the height of 90 em., and bears 
prolifically. Fruit oblong or truncate, about 10 em. long by 4 em. in diameter, often 
lobed and usually with a basal depression, Cultivated in every garden on the island. 
REFERENCES; 
Capsicum annuum grossum (L.) Sendt. Mart. Fl. Bras. 10: 147. 1846, 
Capsicum grossum L. Mant. 1:47. 1767. 
Capsicum baccatum. Same as Capsicum frutescens baccatum; see under Capsicum 
Srutescens. 
Capsicum frutescens. SPUR PEPPER. CAYENNE PEPPER. 
LocaL NAMES.—Doni (Guam); Ajf (Spanish). 
A shrubby perennial, 90 to 180 em. high, with prominently angled or somewhat 
channeled stem and branches; leaves broadly ovate, acuminate; peduncles slender, 
often in pairs, usually longer than the fruit; calyx cup-shaped, embracing the base of 
the fruit; fruit red, obtuse or oblong-acuminate, very acrid. It is possible that the 
original form from which this plant has developed through cultivation is that known 
as Capsicum miamun Roxb., to which, according to Engler, the allied varieties revert 
when left to themselves. The bird pepper (Capsicum frutescens baccatum) has round 
or ovate fruit about 6 mm. in diameter. In the Philippines it is called ‘ chileng 
bundok.”’ 
REFERENCES: 
Capsicum frutescens L. Sp. Pl. 1: 189. 1753. 
Capsicum grossum. Same as Capsicum annuum grossum, 
Capulao (Philippines). See Herpetica alata. 
Carambola. See -Averrhoa carambola. 
Carapa moluccensis. Same as Vylocarpus granatum. 
Cardiospermum halicacabum. BALLOON VINE. 
Family Sapindaceae. 
Local NAMES.—Farolitos, Bombillas (Spanish). 
A climbing herb, with wiry stem and branches, and alternate biternate leaves; leaf- 
lets coarsely dentate; flowers irregular, polygamo-dioecious, in axillary racemes, 
‘white, very small; lowest pair of pedicels developed into spiral tendrils; sepals 4, 
concave, the two outer ones small; petals 4, in pairs, the 2 greater lateral ones usually 
adhering to the sepals; stamens 8, excentric; ovary 3-celled; style short, trifid; 
ovules solitary; fruit an inflated, broadly pear-shaped capsule. 
This plant is widely distributed throughout the Tropics. Its root given in decoc- 
tion is said to be aperient. On the Malabar coast the leaves are administered in 
pulmonary complaints. In the Moluccas the leaves are cooked as a vegetable. 
It was collected by Gaudichaud on the island of Rota. 
REFERENCES: 
Cardiospermum halicacabum LL. Sp. Pl. 1: 866. 1753. 
Carex densiflora. SEDGE. 
Family Cyperaceae. 
A sedge with numerous dense, lanceolate spikelets, arranged in a branching, 
bracted spike; spikelets androgynous, staminate above, pistillate below; scales tipped 
with a bristle, the female nearly round, the male ovate-lanceolate, bristles rough; 
ovary inclosed in an oblong, compressed, striate perigynium, contracted at the top, 
with a small bidentate opening through which protrudes the 2-cleft style; perigyn- 
