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Caryophyllus malaccensis. MALAY APPLE. 
Family Myrtaceae. 
LocaL NAMES.—Macupa, Makupa (Philippines and Guam); Kavika (Fiji); 
Nonu-fi’afi’a (Samoa); Ahia (Tahiti); Ohia (Hawaii). 
A tree of medium size, bearing a profusion of white, purple, or red flowers, with 
tufts of stamens of the same color as the corolla, These are followed by an abun- 
dance of fruit having a fragrant, apple-like odor and a delicate flavor. Leaves large, 
glossy, ovate, elliptic or obovate-oblong, attenuate at each end, inflorescence cen- 
tripetal with solitary axillary flowers, or in short racemes (leafless branches), or 
centrifugal in dense terminal cymes; calyx globose or more or less elongate, pro- 
duced beyond the ovary, with 4 or rarely 5 rounded lobes; petals 4, rarely 5; stamens 
many; ovary 2-celled, rarely 3-celled, with several ovules in each cell; style filiform, 
stigma small; fruit nearly round, crowned by the scar of the calyx lobes; seed usu- 
ally 1. 
This tree occurs on nearly all the larger islands of the tropical Pacific and in the 
Malay Archipelago. It has been introduced into Guam comparatively recently and 
is by no means common, In Hawaii, Samoa, and Fiji it is very highly esteemed by 
the natives, more for its beauty than forits fruit. The ancient Hawaiians made their 
idols of its wood, and the tree figures in the myths of the Fijians. The etymological 
identity of the Fijian, Samoan, Tahitian, and Hawaiian names of this tree is interest- 
ing, indicating, as it does, an acquaintance with it before the separation of the various 
divisions of the Polynesians or its introduction from one group of islands to the 
others, together with its name. . 
REFERENCES: 
Caryophyllus malaccensis (1. ). 
Kugenia malaccensis L. Sp. Pl. 1: 470. 1753, 
Jambosa malaccensis DC. Prod. 3: 286, 1828, 
The genus Caryophyllus was published by Linnzeus in 1753 with a single species, 
C. aromaticus, which has since been referred to Jambos Adanson, or Jambosa, as 
written by many authors. Adanson’s name, however, is of later date, and must 
therefore be displaced by the Linnvean name of the genus, 
Casay (Philippines). See Adenanthera pavonina. 
Cascabeles (Spanish). See Crotalaria quinquefolia. 
Cashew. See Anacardium occidentale. 
Casoy (Philippines). See Anacardiwn occidentale. 
Cassava. See Manihot manihot. 
Cassia alata. Same as flerpetica alata. 
Cassia angustissima Lam. Same as Cassia mimosoides. 
Cassia esculenta Roxb. Same as Cassia sophera. 
Cassia fistula. PUDDING-PIPE TREE. 
Family Caesalpiniaceae. 
LocaL NAMEs.—Caflafistula (Guam, Philippines, Mexico); Cafiapistola (Philip- 
pines); Golden shower (Hawaii). 
A tree with smooth, ashy-gray bark, bearing long, pendent, lax racemes of golden- 
yellow flowers, followed by very long, woody, cylindrical pods. Leaves large, even- 
pinnate, the leaflets in 4 to 8 pairs, ovate-acuminate, 5 to 15 cm. long; calyx tube 
very short; sepals 5, obtuse; petals 5, veined, imbricated, obovate, shortly clawed, 
nearly equal; stamens 10; pod black or dark brown, 30 to 60 cm. long, containing 
one-seeded compartments, marked with three longitudinal shining furrows, two of 
them close together and the third opposite them, marking the sutures; seed reddish 
brown, glossy, flattish, ovate, embedded in a blackish-brown sweet pulp; odor 
