894 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 



Tugui, Togui (Philippines). A yam. See Dioscorea and D. fasciculata. 



Tugui-tuguian (Philippines). See Ipomoea mariannensis. 



Tulip tree, Indian. See Thespesia populnea. 



Tungo (Philippines). The spiny yam. See Dioscorea spinosa. 



Tupe (Samoa). See Lens phaseoloid.es. 



Tupo, Tupu (Guam). Sugarcane. See Saccharum officinarum. 



Tupun ayuyu (Guam). 



" Robber-crab's sugar cane," a succulent plant with leaves having 3 longitudinal 

 nerves, not identified; said to be eaten by the ayuyu. 

 Tupun-neti (Guam). See Xiphagrostis floridula. 

 Turmeric. See Curcuma longa. 

 Turnip-bean. See Cacara erosa. 

 Twig-rush. Cladium gaudichaudii. 



Ube, Ubi (Philippines, Java, Malay Archipelago). See Dioscorea, D. alata. 

 Uchaga lahe (Guam) . See Eleocharis plantaginoidea. 

 Ufa (Guam). Vernacular name for Ileritiera littoralis. 

 TJfi (Samoa). See Dioscorea alata. 

 'TJlu (Samoa, Hawaii). See Ariocarpus communis. 

 'Ulu-ma'a (Samoa). See Ariocarpus communis, seeded variety. 

 'Umala (Samoa). See Ipomoea batatas. 

 Umbrella tree. See Thespesia populnea. 

 Umog (Guam). 



A name applied to several grasses with digitate spikes, including Panicum gaudi- 

 chaudii and the introduced Elcusine indica. 



Umog sensonyan, " swamp grass," (Guam). See Ceratopteris ihaliciroides. 

 Umumo, Umumu (Guam). 



A tree mentioned by Governor Olive in his report to the captain-general of the 

 Philippines, from the trunks of which sugar troughs are sometimes made. Called 

 "umumu" by Gaudichaud, who referred it to Pisonia milis. Growing in Tinian on 

 rocks. See Pisonia excelsa. 

 Unas de gato (Spanish). 



"Cats-claws;" a name applied in Guam to the nickernut (Guilandina crista) on 

 account of the sharp, recurved spines of the branches and leaves. 

 Uom (New Lanenberg). See Pandanus dubius. 

 Upo. (Philippines). See Lagenaria lagenaria. 



Urena sinuata. Dog's-foot bueweed. 



Family Malvaceae. 



Local names. — Dadangsi, Dadanse (Guam); Cadillo pata-de-perro (Porto Rico); 

 Bondenkiva (Japan); Mautofa (Samoa). 



An erect branched hairy weed, growing to a height of about a meter, with pal- 

 mately lobed downy leaves, small pink mallow-like flowers, and bur-like fruit. 

 Stem and branches covered with spreading stellate hairs; leaves very variable, 4 to 

 8 cm. long, usually deeply palmately cut into 5 lobes, which are again lobed or pin- 

 natifid, serrate, stellate, hairy on both sides, and having a gland beneath on the 

 mid vein near its base and sometimes similar glands on 2 lateral nerves; flowers clus- 

 tered; bracteoles 5, adnate to the 5-cleft calyx, linear-oblong, nearly as long as the 

 calyx; petals 5, united to the base of the tube formed by the stamens; anthers 

 nearly sessile; ovary 5-celled, cells 1-ovuled; stigmatic branches 10; stigmas capi- 

 tate; ripe carpels covered with pubescence and set with hooked bristles. 



