220 MEUUILU 
CHLORIS Sw. 
Chloris mearnsii sp. nov. 
Caespitosa, pereiini^, upqne ad 40 cm alta; culm.is gracilibus, genicula- 
ti^; spicis 3, digitatis, gracilibus, loJige exsertis; foliis linearibus, acmni- 
natis, 5 ad 8 cm longis; spiculis imbricatis, atropurpiireis, 3.5 mm 
longis, arista 1 cm longa. 
A tufted perennial 40 cm liigb or less. Culms very slender, glabrous, 
geniculate below, the inflorescence long-exserted. Leaves 5 to 8. cm long, 
I to 4 mm wide, minutely scabrid, the sheaths longer than the inter- 
nodes, the ligule consisting of a few long wliite hairs. Spikes 3, digitate, 
slender, 5 to 7 em long, the spikelets imbricate, dark-purple. p]mpty 
glumes hyaline, 1-nerved, scabrid on the nerves, the first 1.2 nun long, 
linear, the second 3 mm long, linear-lanceolate, mucronate-acuminate. 
Flowering glume lanceolate, dark-purple, 3.5 mm long, scabrid, the tip 
with a slender straight awn 1 cm long. Palca equaling the glume, 
Bcabi-id. Seed narrowly oblong, 2.5 mm long. Callus pilose, riachilla 
produced 1 to 1.2 mm and bearing a minute, 0.5 mm long, glume, the 
awn slender, scabrid, 3 to 4 mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Ilocos Xurte, Bur. Sci. 22!)'( Mcarus, January, 1007. 
A species allied to Chloris cynodontoules Bal., pde llackel in lit., but that 
species luis blunt leaves, wliile in tlie present species tliey are long-acuminate. 
CYPERACE.l^. 
CAR EX Linn. 
Carex cryptostachys Broiigii. in Duperr. Voy. Dot (1S29) 152; Clarke in 
Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 6 (1S94) 714. 
Luzox, Province of Rizal, Bur. f^ci. 1160 Rnpios, January, 1U()7: Province of 
Sorsogon, Svn-sogoii, Ehncr 130G, November, 1005. 
Ahilav Peuinsida to southern China, south to New Guinea; new to the Pliilip- 
pines. 
Tlie former ininibcr cited was compared by me witli auttientic material in Herb. 
Kew, and the identifa-atittn has also been cHuifirmed by Herr G. Kiikenthal. 
Elmer's si)ecimen is manifestly the same. 
AKACEyE. 
ALOCASIA Neck. 
Alocasia heterophylla (Piesl) comb. nov. 
Caladlum hctcrophyUum Prenl Rel. iTaonk. 1 (1827) 148. 
Alocasia icarhuryii Kngl. Bot. Jahri>. 25 (1S98) 25; Merr. in Piiilip- Joiu-n. 
Sci. 1 (l!)Ofi) Suppl. 33. 
PresPs type, preserved in the Prague herbarium, is identical with the tyi)e of 
Alocania ivarhiiryii, direct comparisitn having been made by me in the Berlin 
herbarium, Dr. Kngler concurring in the identity of the two species. Presl's 
name being the older is here retained. 
