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OPHIOGLOSSACEAE 



BOTRYCHIUM Swartz 

 BOTRYCHIUM TERNATUM (Thunb.) Sw. in Schrad. Journ. 1800" 

 (1801) 111. 

 Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan) Merrill 11018, 

 August 16, 1917, in meadows in front of the ruined monastery at Put Wan 

 Tsz, altitude about 1,100 meters; very rare. 



Japan to the Himalayan region; no representative of the genus has 

 been previously reported from Kwangtung Province. 



GRAMINEAE 

 ANDROPOGON Linnaeus 

 ANDROPOGON FRAGILIS R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 202. 



Kwangtung Province, White Cloud Mountain, near Canton, Levine 1U5, 

 August 30, 1917. 



This is the typical form of the species and conforms entirely with Banks 

 and Solander's specimen, on which the species was based, a fragment of 

 which has been kindly communicated to me by Mr. J. H. Maiden, director 

 of the Botanic Garden, Sydney. I * 



Var. SINENSIS Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 36 (1904) 372. 



Kwangtung Province, White Cloud Mountain, near Canton, Levine 1140, 

 August 28, 1917. 



This form, which I at first considered to represent a distinct species, 

 approximates the type in all characters except in the sessile spikelet being 

 densely villous on the back in the lower one-half, the first glume of the 

 empty spikelet being glabrous in the type. The Philippine material referred 

 to Andropogon fragilis R. Br., with the exception of a single specimen, 

 and New Guinea material collected by King, differs from the type not only 

 in its smaller spikelets but also in having the rachis-joints and pedicels 

 of the sterile spikelets entirely glabrous, and will have to be distinguished 

 at least as a variety. 



POLYTOCA R. Brown 



POLYTOCA HETEROCLITA (Roxb.) Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 10 

 (1915) Bot. 288. 

 Coix heteroclita Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 2, 3 (1832) 572. 

 Polytoca bractekita R. Br. in Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. (1838) 20, t. 5. 

 Kwangtung Province, Wa Shau T'oi, at the base of Loh Fau Mountain 

 (Lofaushan), Merrill 10887, Levine 1571, August 20, 1917, on open grassy 

 slopes, altitude about 140 meters. 



India to Burma, Tonkin, Java, and Mindanao; no representative of the 

 genus has hitherto been reported from China. 



PASPALUM Linnaeus 

 PASPALUM LONGI FOLIUM Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1 (1820) 283. 



Kwangtung Province, Wa Shau T'oi, at the base of Loh Fau Mountain 

 (Lofaushan), Merrill 10792, August 20, 1917, on open grassy slopes, altitude 

 about 150 meters. 



