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This tree was first described from specimens collected by Gaudichaud in Guam. 

 It closely resembles the manono, or anei, of Tahiti (Claoxylon ta'itense). 

 REFERENCES: 



Claoxylon marianum Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. 15 2 : 783. 1866. 

 Clavellina (Porto Rico). See Poinciana pulcherrima. 



Cleome viscosa. SPIDER-FLOWER. 



Family Capparidaceae. 

 LOCAL NAMES. Mongos paloma (Guam). 



A common weed with clammy stems, 3 to 5-foliolate leaves, and yellow 4-petaled 

 flowers, widely spread in the Tropics. Stems covered with simple viscid-glandular 

 hairs; leaflets ovate or obovate, equaling or shorter than the petioles, upper ones 

 usually subsessile; flowers racemed, long-pediceled; sepals 4; petals imbricate in the 

 bud, reflexed; stamens 12 to 20, sessile on disk; ovary sessile with a short gynophore; 

 style short or wanting; capsule glandular-pubescent, 5 to 8.5 cm. long, striate, nar- 

 rowed to the tip, the two valves separating from the seed-bearing placentas; seeds 

 small, granular. 



The seeds are sold in the bazaars of India, where they are used by the natives in 

 their curries. They are also used medicinally, powdered and mixed with sugar, to 

 expel intestinal worms, and externally as a rubefacient in the form of a poultice, 

 bruised with vinegar, lime juice, or hot water, for the same purposes as a mustard 

 plaster. The whole plant has a sharp taste not unlike mustard and in some parts of 

 India is known as "wild mustard." It is sometimes eaten boiled with red peppers 

 and salt. 



In Guam the natives call it "pigeon pea," from its resemblance to Phaseolus mungo. 

 It was first collected on the island by Lesson, botanist of the Astrolabe, in 1828. 

 REFERENCES: 



Cleome viscosa L. Sp. PL 2: 672. 1753. 



Clerodendrum inerme. SEASIDE CLERODENDRON. 



Family Verbenaceae. 



LOCAL NAMES. Lodiigao (Guam); Baliskug (Visayan); Aloalo-tai (Samoa). 

 A branching, often rambling, evergeen shrub, common near the coast, bearing 

 clusters of white, tubular, honeysuckle-like flowers with exserted stamens. Leaves 

 opposite, rarely ternate, obovate or elliptic, subobtuse, entire, glabrate; cymes axil- 

 lary with small linear bracts; calyx campanulate, minutely 5-toothed, in fruit some- 

 what enlarged, subtruncate, closely embracing the base of the drupe; corolla white, 

 tube long and slender, limb 5-fid, lobes oblong; stamens 4, anthers long-exserted, 

 filaments usually reddish; ovary imperfectly 4-celled, 4-ovuled; drupe separating 

 into 4 woody nutlets; seeds oblong. 



This plant is widely spread in the Western Pacific, the Malay Archipelago, the 

 Andaman Islands, India, Ceylon, and tropical Australia. Its Samoan name signifies 

 "seaside Prerrma." The wood, the root, and the leaves are bitter, and are used by 

 the natives of Guam, the Philippines, and Samoa as a remedy for intermittent fevers. 

 The leaves, made into poultices, applied to swellings, prevent suppuration. 



A second species or variety of Clerodendrum is found in Guam with narrower 

 leaves, possibly Clerodendrum nereifolium Wall. The leaves of this plant are pre- 

 ferred by the natives to the above as a febrifuge. 

 REFERENCES: 



Clerodendrum inerme Gaertn. Fruct. 1 : 271. 1788. 

 Climbing- plants. 

 GROWING WITHOUT CULTIVATION: 



Abrus abrus. Kolalis halom-tano, coral-pea vine, common in thickets. 

 Argyreia tiliaefolia. Aldlag (plant), Abubo (flower), twining among bushes, 

 a lavender-flowered morning-glory. 



