Hippobroma longiflora (L.) G.Don

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
fr cm THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL HERBARIUM

PLANTS of the CAROLINE ISLANDS
PALAU GROUP
Hippobroma longiflora (L.) G. Don
Meringel
Locality Entomology Lab. grounds next to the Bai.
Occurrence Growing in shaded areas and on road-
sides.
Date 9 August 1969	form
rut,	Fk
Coll. Carl A* Salsedo	No.	¿73
PCV
Remarks Herb l-2jf tall. Leaves narrow to 611
long, leave margins have toothed lobes.
Flowers white, errect, 5 petaled. corolla,
tube to 3»j stigma large. Fruit a capsule.
Milky sap present in stem and roots
  which is poisonous causing blindness.