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Oxalis corniculata. WOODSORREL. 



Family Oxalidaceae. 



LOCAL NAMES. Agsoin, Apson (Guam) ; I'i (Samoa); Koki (Rarotonga); Vina- 

 gera (Cuba); Vinagrillo (Porto Rico). 



A procumbent, herbaceous plant, usually pubescent with appressed hairs, freely 

 branching from the base, often creeping. Leaves trifoliolate, leaflets obcordate, 

 minutely reticulated; stipules united to base of petals; flowers yellow, growing in 

 umbel-like cymes; peduncles 1 to 5-flowered but mostly 2-flowered, pedicels pubes- 

 cent, reflexed; sepals 5, pubescent; petals 5, emarginate; stamens 10, monadelphous 

 at base, 5 longer arid 5 shorter; ovary 5-celled; ovules several in each cavity; styles 

 5, separate, persistent, stigmas terminal; capsule oblong, appressed-pubescent; seeds 

 compressed, transversely ridged. 



Common, in waste places and fields on the island. The plant is antiscorbutic and 

 is used in India as a remedy in dysentery. The Chamorro name signifies "sour" 

 and is also applied to Meibomia triflora (see agsom}. It was first collected in Guam 

 by Freycinet, who recorded it as Oxalis repens. 



Widely distributed in the warmer regions of the earth. 

 REFERENCES: 



Oxalis corniculata L. Sp. PI. 1 : 435. 1753. 

 Ox-eye bean. See fttizolobium giganteum. 

 Pacao or Pakao (Guam). See Guilandina crista, 

 Pachyrhizus bulbosus. Same as Cacara erosa. 

 Pachyrhizus jicamas. Same as Cacara erosa. 

 Pacpac or Pakpak (Guam). 



A small tree mentioned by Governor Olive in his list, from which pikes and 

 handles of garden implements are made; not identified. 

 Paddy (British East Indies). See Oryza saliva. 

 Padi (Malayan). See Oryza saliva. 

 Pago (Guam). See Pariti liliaceum. 



Pahong or Pahon (Guam). See Pandanus and P. dubius. 

 Paingot (Guam). See Pandanus sp. 

 Paipay (Guam). 



A tree included in the list of Don Felipe de la Corte, yielding timbers 4 meters 

 long and 15 cm. in diameter, used for the framework of roofs of houses and handles 

 for fusinos or thrust hoes. It is subject to the attacks of termites, and therefore not 

 so extensively used in Guam as other woods which are immune; not identified. 

 Pajon (Spanish). See Pandanus dubius. 

 Pajuil (Porto Rico). See Anacardium ocddentale. 

 Pakpak langao (Philippines). See Meibomia triflora. 

 Palaga-hilitai or Quelitai (Guam). See Meibomia umbellata. 

 Palai or Palay. The Philippine name for uncooked rice. See Oryza satira. 

 Palang-palang (Philippines). See Canavali enxiformc, and (\ obtusifolium, 

 Palilalia (Guam). See Schychowskya interrupta. 

 Pal-lam or Pallang- (Philippines) . See Botor tetrayonoloba. 

 Palm, betel-nut. See Areca cathecu. 

 Palm, black-fiber. See Saguerus pinnatus. 

 Palm, coconut. See Cocus mud/era. 

 Palm, date. See Phoenix dactylifera. 

 Palm, g-omutu. See ftaguerux pinnatus 



