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 Acrostickum aureum. Stems wiry, slender, twining, glabrous, or sliglitly 

 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 raohis 

 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 

 cases. 



This species is widely distributed in the Tropics. The form in Guam, described as 

 Lygodium mia-ophyllum R. Br. , is referred to this species as a \ ariety ( X. 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 L. dichoiomum Sw. and L. longifolium, which 

 is referred by Baker to L. pinnatifidum. Sw. 

 References: 

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

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

 Lythraceae. Loosesthife family. 



This family is represented in Guam by Pemphis acidula, Lawsonia inermis, Ammannia 

 cocdnea, and Lagerstroemia indica. 

 Hacromitrion. See Mosses. 



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

 Madagascar periwinkle. See Lochnera rosea. 

 Ha^ay, Ha^ey (Philippines). &&& Agave vimpara. 

 MaUog-hayo or Majlok-hayo (Guam). 



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

 Mai (Rarotoriga). Fermented breadfruit. B&e; Artocarpus communis. 

 Maigo-lalo, Maigfu-lalo (Guam). 



"Fly-roost." The vernacular name for Phyllanthus niruri, "maigo" signifying 

 sleep and "lalo" flies. 



Maile (Poljmesian). See Gynopogon torresianus. 

 Maisa ulu (Guam). See Nervilia aragoana. 

 Maiz (Spanish). See Zea mays. 

 Maize. See Zea Tnays. 

 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; Declaracion de los Arboles y Plantas que estdn en 

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



