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bark is red and flakes off. It is used as a remedy in dysentery. In Guam the wood 

 is used for making spokes of wheels and for floors of small houses. It is fine-grained, 

 heavy, hard, durable in water, and of a red or brown color. . Logs 4.5 meters long 

 and 30 cm. in diameter may be obtained. The tree yields a resin and from the seeds 

 a whitish semi-solid oil is expressed which becomes fluid at a high temperature. 

 This is used in India for burning, and in some places as a hair oil. 

 REFERENCES: 



Xylocarpus granatum Koen. Naturf. 20: 2. 1784. 



Carapa moluccensis Lam. Encyc. 1: 621. 1783. 



Xylocarpus moluccensis (Lam.) Roem. Syn. Hesper. 124.1846. 

 Yabag 1 (Philippines). See Sophora iomentosa. 

 Yahon-yahon (Philippines). See Centella asiatica. 

 Yam, Chinese. See Dioscorea glabra. 

 Yam, common. See Dioscorea saliva. 

 Yam, Guinea. See Dioscorea aculeata. 

 Yam, kawai. See Dioscorea aculeata. 

 Yam, kidney-potato. See Dioscorea fasciculata. 

 Yam, negro. See Dioscorea saliva. 

 Yam, Papuan. See Dioscorea papuana. 

 Yam, prickly. See Dioscorea aculeata. 

 Yam, round-stemmed. See Dioscorea saliva. 

 Yam, spiny. See Dioscorea spinosa. 

 Yam, square-stemmed. See Dioscorea alata. 

 Yam, ubi or uvi. See Dioscorea alata. 

 Yam, wild. See Dioscorea spinosa. 

 Yam, wing-stemmed. See Dioscorea alata. 

 Yam, white. See Dioscorea alata. 

 Yam-bean. See Cacara erosa. 

 Yampong- (Philippines). See Abutilon indicum. 

 Yard grass. See Eleusine indica. 

 Yard-long 1 bean, Asiatic. See Vigna sinensis. 

 Yellow-wood, Marianne. See Ochrosia mariannensis. 

 Yerba-buena (Guam). See Mentha arvensis. 

 Yerba de Clavo (Porto Rico) . See Centella asiatica. 

 Yerba de Santa Maria (Guam, Philippines). See Artemisia vulgaris. 

 Ylang-ylang. See Canangium odoratum. 

 Yog, (Guam). 



A large forest tree with buttressed trunk, bearing a bluish fruit like a large grape 

 in appearance, dry and insipid, but-eaten by birds. Wood not very durable; some- 

 times used for oars. Also written " joga," the Guam Y being pronounced like the 

 English J. According to Governor Perez it yields logs 12 to 14 meters long. 

 Yovas (Philippines). See Graptophyllum pictum. 

 Yuka (Guam). See Manihot manihot. 

 Yuquillo (Porto Rico). See Curcuma longa. 

 Zacate. 



A name applied in Guam, Mexico, and the Philippines to grass, hay, or forage for 

 animals. 



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