232 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 



Climbing plants — Continued. 



Cacara erosa. — Hikama, the yam bean, a leguminous plant having an edible tuber. 



Calamus sp. — Behuko halom-tano, a climbing palm, like the rattan of commerce, 

 but not utilized. 



Canavali ensiforme. — Akankan, sword-bean, a forest climber. 



Cassytlia flliformis. — Mayagas, a wiry leafless parasite, common in thickets. 



Clitoria tematea. — Bukike, Capa de la reina, the blue pea. 



Cycloph.orus adnascens. — A climbing fern with small, simple, entire fronds. 



DavaUia solida. — Pugua machena, a fern with finely divided glossy fronds, climb- 

 ing on tree trunks. 



Dioscorea sxiinosa. — Gado, a wild yam, armed with wiry branching thorns, form- 

 ing impenetrable thickets. 



Dischidia puberula. — An asclepiad, growing on forest trees. 



Guilandina crista. — Pakao, Unas de gafo, a rambling leguminous shrub, profusely 

 branching, armed with recurved thorns. 



Humata heterophylla. — A fern with simple fronds, the sterile entire, linear- 

 lanceolate, the fertile pinnately lobed. 



Ipomoea spp. — Several species abundant, twining in thickets. 



liens pbaseoloides. — Gagg (plant), bayog (seed), a giant climbing leguminous 

 plant, common in forest. 



liygodium scandens. — Alambrillo, a delicate fern with wiry stems, common in 

 marshes, twining about reeds and AcrosticUum aureum. 



Operculina peltata. — A morning-glory with peltate leaves, twining among under- 

 growth. 



Fhymatodes phymatodes. — A climbing fern with large, leathery, lobed fronds, 

 growing on tree trunks, walls, and tiled roofs. 



Quamoclit quamoclit. — Cabello del angel, scarlet^flowered cypress vine; escaped 

 from cultivation, but well established on the island. 



Stizolobium giganteum. — Sea-bean, a leguminous climber with papilionaceous 

 flowers and brown pods. 



Planted in gardens: 



Antig'onon leptopus. — Cadena de amor, an ornamental plant with rose-colored 



flowers growing in racemes. 

 Botor tetragonoloba. — Seguidillas, a leguminous plant with edible pods, which 



appear to be adorned with four longitudinal frills. 

 Cucurbita spp. — Kalamasas, gourds and squashes. 

 Dioscorea spp.^Dago, Nika, edible yams. 

 Solichos spp.— Edible Fabaceae. 

 Xiagenfixia, lag'enaria. — Tagoa, the bottle gourd. 

 BComordica charantia. — Balsamina, the balsam pear. 

 Piper betle. — Pupdlo, the betel pepper, leaves chewed with Areca nut and lime 



by the natives. 

 Telosma odoratissima. — Mil leguas, a very fragrant asclepiad. 



Clitoria ternatea. Blue pea. 



Family Fabaceae. 



Local names. — Bukike (Guam); Calocanting (Philippines); Capa de la Beina 

 (Spanish); Bejuco de Conchitas (Porto Eico). 

 A twining leguminous plant with pinnate leaves and large showy deep-blue flow- 

 ers. Stems slender, downy; petioles short, leaflets 5 to 7, ovate or oblong, obtuse, 

 subcoriaceous; stipules minute, linear; flowers solitary, bracteoles large, roundish; 

 calyx tubular, 5-fld, lobes lanceolate, half as long as the tube; standard of the corolla 

 bright blue, with orange center; pod linear, pubescent, 6 to 10-seeded. 



A plant widely distributed throughout the Tropics, common in the hedgerows of 

 both the East and West Indies, It has established itself in Guam and is found near 

 the sites of abandoned ranches. It bears transplanting, flowers profusely, and is one 

 ot the most showy plants of the garden. The seeds were flrst taken to England from 

 the island of Temate, one of the Moluccas, from which its specific name is taken. 

 The powdered ripe seeds act as an aperient and the root as a powerful cathartic. 

 Refekences: <■ 



Clitoria tematea L. Sp. L. 2: 753. 17S3. 

 Club-rushes. General name for species of Fimbristylis. 



