248 USEFUL PLANTS OF QUAM. 
Convolvulus nil L. Same as Pharbitis hederacea. 
Convolvulus maritimus Desr. Same as Tpomoea pes-caprae. 
Convolvulus peltatus L. Same as Operculina peltata. 
Convolvulus pes-caprae L. Same as Ipomoea pes-caprae. 
Convolvulus tiliaefolius Desr. Same as Argyreia tiliaefolia, 
Convolvulus trilobatus Gaud. Same as Ipomoea congesta and Ipomoea mariannensis. 
Coquillo (Panama). See Jatropha curcas. 
Coraceae. See under Lichenes. 
Coral plant. “See Jatropha multifida. 
Coral tree, East Indian. See Erythrina indica. 
Coral-bead vine. See Abrus abrus. 
Coral-bean tree. See Adenanthera pavonina, 
Coralillo (Cuba). See Antigonon leptopus. 
Corallopsis. See under Algz. 
Corazon (Porto Rico). See Annona reticulata, 
Corchorus. BRooMWEED. 
Family Tiliaceae. 
Local NAMES.—Masigsig lahe (Guam). 
Corchorus tomentosus, a plant of Japanese origin, was included in Gaudichaud’s list 
of Guam plants, but the name probably refers to Triumfetta tomentosa, or some allied 
species of that genus. Corchorus differs from Triumfetta in having its fruit in the 
form of a 2 to 5-celled capsule, the fruit of Triumfetta being indehiseent and spiny. 
Flowers 1 to 3 together, small, yellow, opposite the leaves; sepals 5, distinct; petals 
5, distinct; stamens numerous, distinet; ovary 2 to 5-celled, with numerous ovules; 
capsule loculicidal, 2 to 5-valved, with numerous seeds. C. acutangulus, having the 
capsule elongated, glabrous, strongly 3-winged and 6-angled, leaves ovate, rounded 
at base, acute, serrate, the 2 lowest teeth often prolonged into filiform tails, is a wide- 
spread tropical weed, found in the Solomon Islands and, possibly, in Guam. C. tor- 
resianus, collected by Gaudichaud on Rota, the island next to Guam, is not further 
known, and may prove to be identical with some other species. 
Cordia subcordata. Kou. 
Family Boraginaceae. 
LocaL NAMES.—Banalo (Philippines); Kou (Hawaiian Islands); Tou (Tahiti, 
Rarotonga, Marquesas); Nawanawa (Fiji); Tauanave (Samoa); Ikoik 
(Carolines). 
A tree growing near the coast with large ovate leaves and orange or reddish 
funnel-shaped flowers. Leaves alternate, petioled, 7.5 to 15 em. long, obscurely 
3-nerved, base rounded or subcordate, glabrous; flowers in short terminal and lateral 
few-flowered corymbs, nearly glabrous, polygamous: hermaphrodite corymbs fewer- 
flowered than the male; calyx 12.5 mm, long, 3 to 6-parted, the teeth short, triangu- 
lar, villous within; corolla tube 1.5 em. long, 5 to 7-lobed, one lobe external, the 
lobes 15 mm. long, rounded; stamens usually 6; anthers shortly exserted; ovary 
4-celled, glabrous; style terminal, long, 2-parted, its branches again 2-parted, linear- 
spathulate; cells l-ovuled; fruit an ellipsoid, acute, usually 1-seeded drupe, 2.5 em. 
long; seed coarsely muricate, subspinose. 
Not common in Guam, several trees growing near the village of Agat. In Hawaii 
it is called ‘‘kou,”’ etymologically the same as “tou”? of Tahiti. The wood is rather 
soft, but durable. It is much prized by the natives of Hawaii, who make of it cups 
and poi calabashes, showing wavy bands of light and dark color when polished. The 
