322 



(1) Imperata cylindrica (Linn.) Beauv. Agrost. ilS12i Expl. Planch. .">. t. 

 ■'). j. 1. var. koenigii (Ret*.) Benth.; Pilger in Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1<>04) 

 137. Imperata arundinacea Cyr.; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) .">I4; F.-Vill. Nov. 

 App. (1883) •'ilii. /. arundinacea var. koenigii Hack, in DC Monog. Pkan. 6 

 (1889) S4 : Vidal, Phan. Cuming. I'liilip. (1885) 158; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. 

 (1886) 289. Baocharum spicatum Pres] Rel. Haenk 1 (1830) :540 : Bcribn. Rept 

 Mo. Bot Gard. 10 (1899) 52. pi. I; .Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (is;>!i) 513; Kuntli, 

 Enum. 1 (1833) 470; F.-Vil. Nov. App. (1883) .'{17. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio (5753 Elmer) March, 1904: Manila (86 

 Merrill) May, 1902: Province of Pampanga, Bacolor (32 Porfcer) May. 1904. 

 Mindobo, Baco River ( 12:> McGregor) April, 1905. Sou van (27 McGregor) 

 .Inly. 1904. Bohol (1218 McGregor) June, 1906. Mindanao. Davao ( 1K4 

 DeVore A Hoover) April. L903; (537 Copeland) March, HM)4: Lake Lanao, Camp 

 Keithley (145 Clemens) February, 1906. 



Abundant and widely distributed in the Philippines, the species being dis- 

 tributed through the warmer parts of the World, the variety koenigii, extending 

 from tropical Africa to southern Asia. Japan, Malaya. Australia. New Caledonia, 

 and the Fiji Islands. T.. Cogdn, 



( 2 1 Imperata exaltata Brongn. Voy. Coqu. Hot. (l*2!l) 101. excl. syn.; 

 Hack, in DC. Monog. Than. 6 (1889) !>s : Pilger in Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. 

 (1904) 137; Merr. in I'liilip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 20. Imperata ramosa 

 Anders.: Rolfe, in Journ. Bot. 23 ( 1 ss.~> i 2l(l : Vidal, Phan. Cuming. Philip. 

 (]ss.")i 158; Vidal, Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 289. Saccharum negrosense 

 Bteud. Syn. 1 (is.").")) -107. Baocharum confertum Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1830) 

 364; Kunth. Enum. 1 (1833) 470: F.-Vill. Nov. App. <iss:i) :*17. Saccharum 

 alopecuroa Neesj Miq. Fl. Ind. Hat. 3 (1859) 513; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 317. 



Philippines (1801 Cuming) ls:iii 40. Luzon, Province of Risal, Boeoboso 

 ( :127!) Ahem'a collector) August, 1905: Province of Tayabas, Atimonan (122 

 Gregory) August, 1904; (685 Whitford) August, 1904. Palawan. E-wi-ig River 

 (701 Mcnill) February, 1903. 



Common and widely distributed in the Philippines, Malayan Peninsula and 

 Archipelago to New Hebrides. T.. Cogdn. 



Imperata exaltata Brongn. subsp. merrillii Hack, in I'liilip. Journ. Sci. 1 

 ( 1906) Suppl. 204. 



Luzon. Province of Benguet, Mount Tonglon (4813 Merrill) November, 1905. 

 Endemic. 



(7) MISCANTHUS Anders. 



Distinguished from Imperata by its broad panicles, three stamens and 

 the flowering glumes more or less bifid and usually awned between the 

 teeth or lobes. Tall coarse grasses. 



Species 7 or 8, southern and eastern Asia to Malaya and Polynesia; two in 

 the Philippines. 



1. Racemes not fastigiate, the lower ones semiverticellate shorter than 



the common rhachli, laxly flowered (1)3/. japonicua 



1. Racemes corjrmbose-fastiglate, the lower ones exceeding the common 



rbacbiB, densely flowered - - - (2) If. sinensis 



(1) Miscanthus japonicus (Thunb.) Anders. Oefv. Vet. Akad. Forhandl. 

 Stockh. (1866) 100: Back, in DC. Mono--. Phan. 6 (1889) 107; Rendle in 

 Forbes & lleinsl. Journ. Finn. Soc. Bot. 36 (1904) .'547: Koord. Meded.'s Lands 

 Plant. 19 (1898) 274. Saccharum )jr<ic<ir„n<lc Steud. Syn. 1 (1855) 4()s. Mis- 

 oanthus luGonensis Anders. 1. e. 100: Vidal, Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 158; 

 Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 289; Rolfe in Journ. Bot. 23 (issr>) 210. 



