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Crinum asiaticum. Antidote lily. 



Family Amaryllidaceae. 



Local names.— Piga-palayi (Guam); Bakong (Philippines); Lautalatalo, Lau- 

 tamatama (Samoa). 



A lily-like plant with large white flowers and linear-lanceolate leaves, growing in 

 sandy places near the sea. Bulb large, narrowed into a neck which is clothed with 

 old leaf sheaths; leaves 90 to 150 cm. long and 12.5 to 20 cm. wide, shortly acumi- 

 nate, flat, narrowed into the sheathing base; flower scapes rising from the axils of 

 the old leaves, 45 to 90 cm. long, compressed; bracts 2, spathiform, papery; bracte- 

 oles filiform; flowers growing in umbels of 10 to 50, fragrant at night; pedicels 

 short; perianth tube 7.5 to 10 cm. long, cylindric, slender, the segments linear, 

 recurved; filaments slender; anthers reddish; fruit subglobose, beaked by fleshy 

 base of perianth, usually 1-seeded, rarely 2-seeded. A widely spread strand plant. 

 The large spongy, tuber-like seed of this species was collected in the drift on the 

 strand of one of the Solomon Islands by Doctor Guppy, having evidently been 

 carried there by ocean currents. 



The bulb is bruised and the expressed juice used as an emetic. In some countries 

 the bulb is chewed as an antidote for wounds of poisoned arrows and poisonous rep- 

 tiles, and also as a remedy for sickness caused by eating poisonous fish. « 

 References: 



Crinum asiaticum L. Sp. PI. 1 : 292. 1753. 

 Crossleaf. See Crescentia alata. 



Crotalaria quinquefolia. Rattlebox. Rattlepod. 



Family Fabaceae. 

 Local names. — Cascabeles (Guam, Spanish). 



An erect annual plant with 3-foliate or 5-foliate leaves, yellow flowers, and inflated 

 many-seeded pods. Leaflets subsessile, 2.5 to 3.5 cm. long, oblong-linear, tapering 

 to base, obtuse, thin, glabrous; flowers in very lax terminal racemes, bracts small, 

 lanceolate, acuminate; calyx glabrous, segments narrowly triangular, acute; petals 

 about twice the length of the calyx; pod oblong, glabrous, distinctly stalked, 30 to 

 40-seeded. 



A common weed in Guam. Widely distributed in the Tropics. 

 References: 



Crotalaria quinquefolia L. Sp. PL 2: 716. 1753. 

 Croton, variegated. See Phyllaurea variegata. 

 Cruciferae. See Brassicaceae. 



Cuacuacohan (Philippines). See Abutilon indicum. 

 Cucumber. See Gardens. 

 Cucumis melo. Muskmelon. See Gardens. 

 Cucumis sativus. See Gardens. 

 Cucurbita cerifera. Same as Benincasa cerifera. 

 Cucurbita lagenaria L. Same as Lagenaria lagenaria. 



Cucurbita maxima, C. pepo. Squashes and pumpkins. See under Gardens. 

 Cucurbitaceae. Gourd family. 



Among the representatives of this family growing in Guam are Momordica charan- 

 tia, Citrullus citrullus, Cucumis melo, C. sativus, Lagenaria lagenaria, Cucurbita maxima, 

 C. pepo, and Benincasa cerifera. 

 Culasi or Kulasi (Philippines). See Lumnitzera littorea. 



«See Winkler, Real Lexikon, vol. 1, p. 425, 1840. 



