394 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 
Tugui, Togui (Philippines), A yam. See Dioscorea and D. fasciculata. 
Tugui-tuguian (Philippines). See Ipomoea mariannensis. 
Tulip tree, Indian. See Thespesia populned. 
Tungé (Philippines). The spiny yam. See Dioscorea spinosa, 
Tupe (Samoa). See Lens phaseoloides. 
Tupo, Tupu (Guam). Sugarcane. See Saccharum officinarum. 
Tupun ayuyu ((uam). 
“ Robber-crab’s sugar cane,’’ a succulent plant with leaves having 3 longitudinal 
nerves, not identified; said to be eaten by the ayuyn. 
Tupun-neti ((ruam). See Niphagrostis floridula, 
Turmeric. See Curcwma longa. 
Turnip-bean. See Cacara erosa. 
Twig-rush. (ladium gaudichaudii. 
Ube, Ubi (Philippines, Java, Malay Archipelago). See Dioscorea, D. alata. 
Uchaga lahe (Guam). See Mleocharis plantaginoidea. 
Ufa (Guam). Vernacular name for Heritiera littoralis. 
Ufi (Samoa). See Dioscorea alata. 
*Ulu (Samoa, Hawaii). See Arfocarpus communis. 
*Ulu-ma’a (Samoa). See Artocarpus communis, seeded variet y. 
’Umala (Samoa). See Ipomoca hatatas. 
Umbrella tree. See Thespesia populied. 
‘Umog (Ciuam). 
A name applied to several grasses with digitate spikes, including Panicum gaudi- 
chaudii and the introduced Kleusine indica. 
Umog sensonyan, ‘‘ swamp grass,’”? (Guam). See Ceratopteris thalictroides, 
Umumo, Umumu (Guam). 
A tree mentioned by Governor Olive in his report to the captain-general of the 
Philippines, from the trunks of which sugar troughs are sometimes made, Called 
“umumu’? by Gaudichaud, who referred it to Pisonia mitis. Growing in Tinian on 
rocks. See Pisonia excelsa, 
Unas de gato (Spanish). 
“Cats-claws;’? a name applied in Guam to the nickernut (Guilandina erista) on 
account of the sharp, recurved spines of the branches and leaves. 
Uom (New Lanenberg). See Pandanus dubius. 
Upo. (Philippines). See Lagenaria lagenaria. 
Urena sinuata. Doa’s-roor RURWEED. 
Family Malvaceae. 
Local NAMES.—Dadangsi, Dadanse (Guam); Cadillo pata-de-perro (Porto Rico); 
Bondenkiva (Japan); Mautofa (Samoa). 
An erect branched hairy weed, growing to a height of about a meter, with pal- 
mately lobed downy leaves, small pink mallow-like flowers, and bur-like fruit. 
Stem and branches covered with spreading stellate hairs; leaves very variable, 4 to 
8 cm. long, usually deeply palmately cut into 5 lobes, which are again lobed or pin- 
natifid, serrate, stellate, hairy on both sides, and having a gland beneath on the 
midvein near its base and sometimes similar glands on 2 lateral nerves; flowers clus- 
tered; bracteoles 5, adnate to the 5-cleft calyx, linear-oblong, nearly as long as the 
calyx; petals 5, united to the base of the tube formed by the stamens; anthers 
nearly sessile; ovary 5-celled, cells 1-ovuled; stigmatic branches 10: stigmas capi- 
tate; ripe carpels covered with pubescence and set with hooked bristles. 
