:\\)4 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 



Tufa:iii. Togui ( I'liilijipiiu's). A y:un. See />(osror«f ami I>. faaciculata. 



Tug-tii-tugviian ( l'liili|i|iiiies). See Ipcnnora vinriannenmf:. 



Tulip tree, Indian. See Theupcsia populnca. 



Tung-o (l'liilii)]iine.s). The spiny yam. See Dio.trnrrn .yiivosa. 



Tupe (Samoa). See Lena phascoloiilfs. 



Tupo, Tupu (Guam). Sugarcane, ^t'e Sm-cldinnti (/jJiciiKirtdii. 



Tupun ayuyu (Guam). 



" li()l)l)er-cral)'s sugar cane," a pucculent ]ilant witli leaves having 'A longitudinal 

 nervey, not identified; said to be eaten Ly the ayuyu. 

 Tupun-neti (Guam). See XipJiagmstis tli>ri<liilti. 

 Turmeric. See Curcumn longa. 

 Turnip-bean. See Cacara erosa. 

 Twig-rush. ( 'hulium gaudicJimulii. 



XJbe, TJbi (Pliilijipines, Java, INL'Uay Archipelago). See Dloscorea, 1). dlnta. 

 TJchaga lahe ((iuam). See Elfochdrls jdinildf/inoidea. 

 Ufa (Guam). Vernacuhir name for IhrUlcrd litloralis. 

 TJfi (Samoa). See DUm'.oren (ihila. 

 'Ulu (Samoa, Hawaii). See Arlocarpus communis. 

 'TJlu-ma'a (Samoa). See Arlocarpus commuvh, seeded variety. 

 'Uniala (Samoa). See Ipomocd haUttai^. 

 Umbrella tree. See Tliespesia jjopulnea. 



Umog (Guam). 



A name applied to several grasses with digitate spikes, including Panicum guudi- 

 chaudii and the introduced Eleusine indica. 

 Umog sensonyan, " swamp grass," (Guam). See Ceralopte7'if< Ihalictrokles. 



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 miiis. Growing in Tinian on 

 rocks. See Pisotila e.rcdsa. 



Unas de gate (Spanish). 



"Cats-claws;" a name applied in Guam to the nickernut {Guilandina crista) on 

 account of the sharp, recurved spines of the branches and leaves. 



Uom (New Lanenberg). See Pandamik duhius. 



Upo. (Philippines). See Lagenaria lagenaria. 



Urena sinuata. Dog's-foot burweed. 



Family Malvaceae. 



Local names. — Dadangsi, Dadanse (Guam); Cadillo pata-de-perro (Porto Rico); 

 P)Ondenkiva (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 lo])es, which are again lobed or pin- 

 natilid, 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; bracteolea 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 .«essile; ovary 5-celled, cells 1-ovuled; stigmatic branches 10; stigmas capi- 

 tate; ripe carpels covered with pubescence and set with hooked bristles. 



