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Boerhaavia diffusa. Glueweed. 



Family Nyctaginaceae. 

 Local names.— Dafau, Dafao (Guam); Mata-pavo, Pega-pollo (Spanish). 



A troublesome weed widely spread in the Tropics, diffusely branched, with white 

 or reddish minute flowers growing in heads, which are arranged in terminal or 

 axillary panicles. Leaves linear, ovate, oblong, or rounded, obtuse or acute, the 

 base rounded or cordate; flowers jointed on the pedicel; bracteoles small; perianth 

 tubular, limb funnel-shaped, 5-lobed; stamens 1 to 5, exserted; ovary oblique, 

 stipitate; stigma peltate; fruit 5-ribbed, viscid, top rounded. 



In some parts of India this plant is used as a pot herb. It is fed to hogs and cattle, 

 and is thought to increase the supply of milk. The root is used medicinally, and is 

 recommended as a remedy for dropsy and asthma." The very viscid perianth tube 

 containing the fruit readily adheres to other objects and detaches itself from the 

 plant. Small insects are caught by the secretion, and young chickens and turkeys 

 sometimes die in consequence of their eyes becoming sealed up by the sticky fruits. b 

 References: 



Boerhaavia diffusa L. Sp. PI. 1 : 3. 1753. 

 Boerhaavia glutinosa, B. mutabilis, B. procumbens, B. repens. Same as 



Boerhaavia diffusa. 

 Bokabok (Philippines). See Lobelia koenigii. 

 Bollogo (llocos). See Anacardium occidentale. 

 Bolobotones (Philippines). See Kyllinga monocephala. 

 Boldt (Philippines). See Dioscorea fasciculata. 

 Bombacaceae. Bombax family. 



The only representative of this family in Guam is the silk cotton tree, C'eiba pen- 

 tan dra. 



Bombax orientale, B. pentandrum. Same as Ceiba penlandra. 

 Bonga (Philippines). See Areca cathecu. 

 Boraginfeceae. Borage family. 



In Guam this family is represented by the kou tree or banalo (Cordia subcordata), 

 Tournefortia argentea (called " hunig" by the natives), Ehretia microphylla, and two 

 or three species of Heliotropium. 

 Borona (Philippines). See Zea mays. 

 Borot (Philippines). See Dioscorea fasciculata. 

 Bosboron (Philippines). See Lobelia koenigii. 

 Botoncillo (Guam). See Kyllinga monocephala. 

 Botong (Philippines). See Barringtonia speciosa. 



Botor tetragonoloba. Four-winged bean. 



Family Fabaceae. 



Local names. — Seguidillas (Guam); Camaluson, Seguidillas, Calamismis, Pal- 

 lam, Pallang (Philippines); Goa Bean. 



A twining herbaceous bean bearing edible pods having four longitudinal wings. 

 Roots tuberous; leaves 3-foliate, stipellate; stipules attached above the base, lanceolate 

 each way from the insertion; leaflets large, broad, ovate, acute, glabrous, the base 

 subdeltoid; racemes few-flowered, flowers rather large, lilac; peduncles 7.5 to 15 cm. 

 long; pedicels geminate, as long as the calyx; bracteoles ovate, small; calyx 12 mm. 

 long, glabrous, teeth shorter than the tube, the two upper connate, the side-teeth 

 oblong, the lowest shorter, deltoid; corolla much exserted, the petals equal in length; 



a Watt, Dictionary of the Economic Products of India, vol. 1, p. 485, 1899. 

 &Trimen, Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon, vol. 3, p. 390, 1895. 



