Tree 10 m tall or more, bark gray-brown to blackish; leaves and inflorescence with a mealy-scurfy whitish to light brown indument; leaves simple and ovate or trilobed or rarely 5-lobed, or sublanceolate, or subdeltoid, acute at apex, rounded, truncate, or subcordate at base, 3-5-nerved from the base, midrib thereafter pin- nately branches; blades mostly 10-20 cm long, on an equally long slender petiole; 2 glands at junction of blade and petiole; flowers small, greenish-white, in panicles, male and female on same plant; panicles 10-15 em long, many-flowered, terminal; petals pubescent, elliptic-spathulate; stamens of unequal lengths; ovary pubescent; fruit globose or bi-globose, 1-2-seeded, olivaceous, glabrescent, 4-6 em long, indehiscent, with bony endocarp and oily seeds. Native in Malaysia and W. Polynesia. A commonly cultivated tree in E. Polynesia. Said to have been introduced to Guam from the Caroline Islands (Safford); "raguar" is a Carolinian word. "Kukui" is the Hawaiian name. "Candlenut" refers to the use of the oily nuts as candles throughout Polynesia. The oil is similar to tung oil, produced from Aleurites fordii of China. This is a handsome tree, but it does not seem to thrive in Guam, and is quite uncommon. It does not occur on limestone but may be seen on farms in south Guam, as near Merizo (3921). The seeds are edible but purgative and cathartic so should be eaten only in small quantities. Seedling and juvenile leaves are mostly lobed; leaves of old trees are often simple, deltoid-ovate.