-•520 

 (■1) ZEA Linn. 



Habit, foliage, staminate florescence and arrangemeni of the pistillate 



spikes as in the preceeding genus, 1ml the pistillate spikes grown together 

 into a spongy, continuous body, the seeds being home in 4 to 11 double 

 rows. 



Species 1, with many cultural varieties and forms; a native of tropical America 

 and now cultivated in most tropical and temperate countries. Com or Indian 

 Corn. 



(I) Zea mays I. inn. Bp. PI. (1753) 871; Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 1 (1837) 686; 

 ed. 1 (1846) 47(1: ed. 3, 3 (1879) 90; Miq. I'l. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 477; F.-Vill. 

 Nov. App. (1883) 314; Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. 6 (1904) 28; Usteri Beitr. 

 Kenn. Philip. Veg. ( I iio.M 133. 



Extensively cultivated throughout the Philippines, one of the first American 

 plants introduced into the Philippines by the Spaniards, several forms and varie- 

 ties being cultivated in the Archipelago. Sp.-Fil., Maiz. 



(3) CHIONACHNE R. Br. 



Culm much branched, branches terminated by spikes thai are sub- 

 tended by a sheathing leal'. Spikes with 1 to 5 pistillate spikelets and 

 many staminate spikelets. Similar to Cni.r. hut the fruit capsule is 

 formed by the empty glume. 



Species 4, British India to the Malayan Archipelago ami Australia. I endemic 

 Bpecies in the Philippines. 



(1) Chionachne biaurita Hack, in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 2(i:5. 

 Luzon, Province of Benguet, Bued River (42S-2 Merrill), October, 1905. On 



fresh talus slopes at ahout 1.000 m. 



Endemic. 



(Vhionachxv barbata II. Hv.= / i «/.i/'«i , « barbnta Stapf, a British Indian and 

 Javan grass, is reported from the Philippines by K.-Yillar. Nov. App. (1883), 

 :$14, but the record has never been verified.) 



(4) COIX Linn. 



Culm branched, branches ending in one or two short, ivory-like nearh 

 globose, very hard capsules with an opening at the top, and surrounding 



the pistillate spikelets, the staminate inflorescence projecting out of the 



orifices of the capsules. 



Species ;i or 4, southern Asia and Malaya. I in the Philippines. Tear Grass 



or Job's Tears. 



(1) Coix lachryma-jobi Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 972; Hook. f. Kl. Brit. 1ml. 7 

 (1897) 100; Pilger in Perk. Frag. Kl. Philip. (1904) 137; Rendle in Forbes & 

 lleinsl. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 36 (1904) 345 ; Usteri Beitr. Kenn. Philip. Veg. 

 (1905) 132, err. typ. " laohrymae-iovis." Coi.r lachryma Linn. Syst. ed. 10, 1261; 

 Blanco PI. Filip. ed. 1 (1837) 688; ed. 2 (1845) 47S ; ed. 3, 3 (1879) 92; \liq. 

 Kl. hid. Bat. 3 (1859) 47fi; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 157; Etev. PI. 

 Vase. Kilip. (1886) 288; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 314. Coix agrestis Lour.; 

 F.-Vill. I. e. 



Philippines (448 Cuming) 1836-40. Luzon, .Manila t(i4 Merrill), May, 1002: 

 Province of Benguet, Baguio (5701 Elmer) March, 1004; (39, 136 Topping) 



