394 rSEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 



Tugui, Togui (Philippines). A yam. See Dioscorea and D. fasciculata. 



Tugnii-tugTiiaii (Philippines). See Ipomoea mariannensis. 



Tulip tree, Indian. See Thespesia populnea. 



Tn^6 (Philippines). The spiny yam. See Dioscorea spiripsa. 



Tupe (Samoa). See Lens phaseoloides. 



Tupo, Tupu (Guam). Sug3r cane. See Sacchanim ofpcinaTutn. 



Tupun ayuyu (Guam). 



"Robber-crab's sugarcane," a succulent plant with leaves having 3 longitudinal 

 nerves, not identified; said to be eaten by the a^-uyu. 

 Tupun-neti (Guam). See Xiphagrostis floridula. 

 Turmeric. See Curcuma longa. 

 Turnip-bean. See Cacara erosa. 

 Twig-rush. Cladium gawlichaudii. 



TTbe, TJbi (Philippines, Java, Malay Archipelago). See Dioscorea, D. alata. 

 TTchaga lahe (Guam) . See Eleorharis planlaginoidea. 

 Ufa (Guam). Vernacular name for Heriliera lilloraUs. 

 TTfi (Samoa). See Dioscorea alata. 

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

 'Xriu-ma'a (.'^amoa). See Arlocarptts communis, seeded variety. 

 'TJniala (Samoa). See Ipomoea batatas. 

 Umbrella tree. See Thespesia populnea. 

 Umog (Guam). 



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

 chaudii and the introduced Eleusine indica. 



Umog sensonyan, " swamp grass," (Guam), ^ee CcrcUopteris Ihaliclroides. 

 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 mitis. Growing in Tinian on 

 rocks. See Pisonia excelsa. 

 Unas de gato (Spanish). 



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

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

 Uom (New Lanenberg). See Pandanus dubius. 

 Upo. (PhiUppines). See Lagenaria lagenaria. 



Urena sinuata. Dog's-foot burweed. 



Family Malvaceae. 



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

 Bondenkiva (Japan); ilautofa (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 lobes, which are again lobed or pin- 

 natifid, serrate, stellate, hairy on both sides, and having a gland beneath on the 

 mid vein near its base and sometimes similar glands on 2 lateral nerves; flowers clus- 

 tered; bracteoles 5, adnate to the .5-cleft calyx, linear-oblong, nea.rly as long as the 

 calyx; petals 5, united to the base of the tube formed by the stamens; anthers 

 nearly sessile; ovary 5-celled, cells 1-ovuled; stigmatic branches 10; stigmas capi- 

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



