314 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 



Lygodium scandens. CLIMBING LYGODIUM. 



Family Schizaeaceae. 



LOCAL 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 distinct 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 



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 \ariety ( L. scandens micro- 

 phyllum) and is recorded from New Pomerania, Bismarck Archipelago, by Schumann 

 and Lauterbach, the natives there making baskets of the wiry stems. a In the Philip- 

 pines the natives make from them hats and bags for their betel nuts. & Other species 

 of Lygodium recorded from Guam are L. dichotomum Sw. and L. longifolium, which 

 is referred by Baker to L. pinnatifidum Sw. 

 REFERENCES: 



Lygodium scandens (L.) Sw. Schrad. Journ. Bot. 1800 2 : 106. 1801. 

 Ophioglossum scandens L. Sp. PL 2: 1063. 1753. 

 Lythraceae. LOOSESTRIFE FAMILY. 



This family is represented in Guam byPemphis acidula, Lawsonia inermis, Ammannia 

 coccinea, and Lagerstroemia indica. 

 Macromitrion. See Mosses. 



Macupa or Makupa ( Philippines, Guam) . See Caryophyllus malaccensis. 

 Madagascar periwinkle. See Lochnera rosea. 

 Mag-nay, Maguey (Philippines). See Agave vivipara. 

 Mahlog-hayo or Majlok-hayo (Guam). 



A tree, not identified, the wood of which is used for fuel. 

 Mai (Rarotoiiga). 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. 



Schumann und Lauterbach, Die Flora der Deutschen Schutzgebiete in der Siidsee, 

 p. 146, 1901. 



& Padre Ignacio de Mercado; Declaration de los Arboles y Plantas que estdn en 

 esta Tierra, p. 50, in Blanco's Flora de Filipinas. 



