384 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 



Tanning — Continued. 

 Lens phaseoloid.es. — Gaye or bayog; a forest liana. 

 Pithecolobium dulce.— Kamachiles; most extensively used of all. 

 Psidium guajava. — Abas, tbe guava; leaves and bark. 

 Punica granatum. — Granada; rind of fruit excellent. 

 Rh.izoph.ora mucronata. — Mangle hernbra, four-petaled mangrove; aerial roots 



crushed and soaked in water, good for curing fish nets. 

 Terminalia catappa. — Talisai; bark and leaves. 



Tapioca. See Manihot manihot. 



Tapuranga (Philippines). See Hibiscus rosa-sinensis. 



Taro. See Caladium colocasia. 



Taro, acrid. See Alocasia indica and A. macrorrhiza. 



Taro, giant. See Alocasia indica and A. macrorrhiza. 



Tartago (Porto Rico). See Jatropha curcas. 



Tarumpalit (Philippines). See Sesuvium portulacastrum. 



Tauanave (Samoa). See Cordia subcordala. 



Tausunu (Samoa). See Tournefortia argentea. 



Tavatava (Philippines). See Jatropha curcas. 



Tea. 



An attempt was made to cultivate tea in Guam, but it was unsuccessful, the plants 

 growing too high and rank. 



Tea, Mexican. See Chenopodium ambrosioides. 



Tea senna. See Cassia mimosoides. 



Telosma odoratissima. Thousand leagues. 



Family Asclepiadaceae. 



Local names. — Mil-leguas (Guam, Philippines); Liane Tonquin (Mauritius); 

 Malati tunkat (Java); Ye-lan-hiang (China). 

 A twining shrub of East Indian origin, with very fragrant, aromatic, greenish 

 flowers growing in umbel-like cymes. Leaves opposite, ovate-cordate, membranous; 

 calyx 5-parted; corolla salver-shaped, tube pubescent within, swollen at the base; 

 lobes oblong, overlapping at the right; stamens growing together so as to form a 

 short fleshy column bearing a ring of scales called the staminal corona, scales mem- 

 branous, growing to the back of the anthers, erect, double, the inner with a long 

 point; pollen masses one in each cell ; stigma capitate; fruit a pod having one suture, 

 lanceolate, about 7.5 cm. long; pericarp thick, glabrous; seeds 8 mm. long, broadly 

 ovate. 



This plant is a great favorite with the natives. They plant it in their gardens, 

 propagating it by cuttings, which readily take root. I have never seen it form fruit 

 on the island. It takes its local name from the great distance to which the aromatic 

 odor of its flowers is carried. On going home I could always tell at a distance of 

 two blocks whether or not there was a boquet of mil-leguas in my house. 

 References: 



Telosma odoratissima (Lour.) Coville. 



Cynanchum odoratissimum Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 1 : 166. 1790. 

 Pergidaria odoratissima Sm. Ic. Pict. t. 16. 1790-93. 

 None of the species currently referred to the genus Pergularia was contained in the 

 original Pergularia of Linnaeus. That author described two species in the genus, 

 one of which was subsequently made by Burmann the type of the Apocynaceous 

 genus Vallaris, while the other also was removed from Pergularia by Robert Brown 

 and, with Cynanchum externum of Jacquin, erected into the genus Daemia. Pergu- 

 laria can not therefore properly be used as the genus name for those plants to which 



