814 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 
Lygodium scandens. CLIMBING LYGODIUM. 
Family Schizaeaceae. 
Loca NAMEs.—Alambrillo (Guam); Nito (Philippines); Ngiungiu (Yap). 
A climbing fern common in the swamps of Guam, where it twines among the 
reeds and Acrostichum aureum. Stems wiry, slender, twining, glabrous, or slightly 
pubescent; fronds pinnate, inserted on the common stem in divaricate pairs; pin- 
nules 5 to 10 or more, varying in shape from cordate-ovate to oblong-lanceolate or 
hastate, 12 to 36 mm, long, often shortly lobed at the base, and always articulate on 
a slight thickening of the apex of the petiolule, which persists on the common rachis 
after the pinnules have fallen off. Veins forked, free, radiating from the petiolule, 
with a more or less distinet central nerve; sori protruding from the margins of pin- 
nules similar to the barren ones, sometimes all very short, with 3 to 6 pairs of spore 
cases; sometimes in the same specimen 8 to 10 lines long, with 12 to 15 pairs of spore 
cases. 
This species is widely distributed in the Tropics. The form in Guam, described as 
Lygodium microphyllum R. Br., is referred to this species as a variety (1. scandens micro- 
phyllum) and is recorded from New Pomerania, Bismarck Archipelago, by Schumann 
and Lauterbach, the natives there making baskets of the wiry stems.¢ In the Philip- 
pines the natives make from them hats and bags for their betel nuts.” Other species 
of Lygodium recorded from Guam are 1. dichotomum Sw. and L. longifolium, which 
is referred by Baker to L. pinnatifidum Sw. 
REFERENCES: 
Lygodium scandens (1..) Sw. Schrad. Journ. Bot. 18002: 106, 1801. 
Ophioglossum scandens L. Sp. Pl. 2: 1063. 1753. 
Lythraceae. LOOSESTRIFE FAMILY. 
This family is represented in Guam by Pemphis acidula, Lawsonia inermis, Ammannia 
coccinea, and Lagerstroemia indica. 
Macromitrion. See Mosses. 
Macupa or Makupa (Philippines, Guam). See Caryophyllus malaccensis. 
Madagascar periwinkle. See Lochnera rosea. 
Maguay, Maguey (Philippines). See Agave vivipara. 
Mahlog-hayo or Majlok-hayo (Guam). 
A tree, not identified, the wood of which is used for fuel. 
Mai (Rarotonga). Fermented breadfruit. See Artocarpus communis, 
Maigo-lalo, Maigu-lalo (Guam). 
‘“*Fly-roost.”” The vernacular name for Phyllanthus niruri, “maigo” signifying 
sleep and ‘‘lalo’’ flies. 
Maile (Polynesian), See Gynopogon torresianus. 
Maisa ulu (Guam). See Nervilia aragoana. 
Maiz (Spanish). See Zea mays. 
Maize. See Zea mays. 
Majagua (Panama). See Pariti tiliaceum. 
Makupa. See Caryophyllus malaccensis. 
Malabar almond. See Terminalia catappa. 
Malay apple. See Caryophyllus malaccensis. 
Malbas or Matbas (Guam). See Abutilon indicum. 
é¢Schumann und Lauterbach, Die Flora der Deutschen Schutzgebiete in der Siidsee, 
p. 146, 1901. 
> Padre Ignacio de Mercado; Declaracion de los Arboles y Plantas que estén en 
esta Tierra, p. 50, in Blanco’s Flora de Filipinas. 
