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. 



Cassytha filiformis. — Mayagas, a wiry leafless parasite, common in thickets. 



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



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



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

 ing on tree trunks. 



Dioscorea spinosa. — 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 gato, 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. 



Lens phaseoloides. — Gage (plant), bayog (seed), a giant climbing leguminous 

 plant, common in forest. 



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

 marshes, twining about reeds and Acrostichum aureum. 



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

 growth. 



Phymatodes 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: 



Antigonon 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. 

 Dolichos spp.— Edible Fabaceae. 

 Lag-en aria lagenaria. — Tagoa, the bottle gourd. 

 Momordica charantia. — Balsamina, the balsam pear. 

 Piper betle. — Pupulo, 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 Reina 

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

 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-fid, 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 first taken to England from 

 the island of Ternate, 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. 

 References: 



Clitoria ternatea L. Sp. L. 2: 753. 1753. 

 Club-rushes. General name for species of Fimbristylis. 



