COOK AND COLLINS—-ECONOMIC PLANTS OF PORTO RICO. 1381 
Cupania sapida. See Blighia sapida. 
Cupania tomentosa. See Cupania americana. 
~Cupei. See Clusia krugiana. 
Cupeillo. See Clusia krugiana and C. acuminata. 
Cupey. See Clusia rosea. 
A tree from all parts of the island; height, 20 to 30 feet (6 to 9 meters); diame- 
ter, 6 to 8 inches (15 to 20 centimeters); wood yellow, rather hard; specific gravity, 
1.058; kills trees to which it attaches itself. (Exp. 1857.) 
Cupey colorado. 
A tree from the interior parts of the island; height, 50 to 60 feet (15 to 18 meters) ; 
diameter, 15 to 20 inches (37 to 50 centimeters); wood hard, red; specific gravity, 
0.874; used in building houses. (Exp. 1857.) 
Cupey de altura. See Clusia gundlachi. 
Cuphea micrantha. CHIAGARI. 
Family Lythraceae; small shrub, 30 centimeters high, growing along the coast. 
The same common name is also applied to Cuphea parsonsia, a smaller species, 
only 15 centimeters high. (Stahl, 4: 125.) 
Curbaril. See Hymenaea courbaril. 
Curcuma longa. TURMERIC. YUQUILLO. 
An introduced zingiberaceous plant running wild in Jamaica, and probably also 
in Porto Rico. The roots are used as an ingredient in curry powders, and also 
produce a yellow dye much used in India. The yellow principle is not developed 
until the roots mature, and in the younger state hey) are used much like arrow- 
root, starch being extracted from them. 
Curia. See Dianthera pectoralis. 
Curima calophylla. Coyure. 
Family Arecaceae: Curima appeared to be especially abundant about Bay- 
amon, but is probably rather generally distributed in the limestone hills of the 
island, perhaps also on other soils. A few trees were seen along the road between 
Utuado and Lares, and numerous others between Isolina and Manati. Sintenis 
collected specimens of what is apparently the same species near Juncos and Hato 
Grande, and young specimens at Maricao. 
As far as Porto Rico is concerned, this palm is very easily recognized by means 
of the curiously truncate leaf divisions, the outer margins of which appear as 
though accidentally injured or eaten away by caterpillars. This feature is, how- 
ever, shared with numerous other West Indian and South American palms, though 
apparently only one, the so-called grigri palm of Martinique, can be referred to 
the present genus with confidence. 
Hill’s statement that the coyure palm is taller than the royal palm does not 
apply to this species, but probably has reference to the lume palm (Aeria atten- 
uata). Neither species is common nor much used. Aeria was pointed out to us 
from the distance as ‘‘ coyure,’’ but when close at hand all agreed that that name 
belongs to the present spiny species. 
Cuscuta americana. DopprER. Fipros. 
A slender parasitic vine, reported by Bello. 
The large dodder of Porto Rico not only covers large masses of vegetation with 
its coarse yellow threads, but it sometimes invades and covers trees of consider- 
able size. 
Custard apple. See Anona reticulata. 
Cycas revoluta. 
Occasional in gardens, growing to large size in the open air. 
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