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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. 

 Eefekences: 



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



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



Xylocarpus moluccenm (Lam. ) Roem. Syn. Hesper. 124. 1846. 

 Yabag (Philippines). See Sophora iomentosa. 

 Yahon-yahon (Philippines). See Centella asiatica. 

 Yam, Chinese. See Dioscorea glabra. 

 Yam, common. See Dioscorea saliva. 

 Yam, Cruinea. See Dioscorea aculeata. 

 Yam, kawai. See Dioscorea aculeata. 

 Yam, kidney -potato. See Dioscorea fasciculala. 

 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 bean, Asiatic. See Vigna sinensis. 

 Yellow-wood, Dlarianne. See Ochrosia mariannensw. 

 Yerba-buena (Guam). See Mentha arvensis. 

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

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

 Ylang-ylang. See Canangium odoratum. 

 YogS, (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. 

 YuquiUo (Porto Eico). See Curcuma longa. 

 Zacate. 



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

 animals. 



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