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47S. Andropogon product us Elegel in Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. 5 (180(1) 7(H). 

 I. >. ff. t6-24. Kulalia tenuis ( ). Klz. Rev. Con. PL (1891) 775. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Bued River (4:510 Merrill) November, 1905^ 

 Ambuklao to Daklan [4382 Merrill) October, 1005: Province of Bataan, Lamao 



River (3286 Merrill) October, 190,3. 

 Caroline Islands (Ualan). 



(10) Pollinia sp. near /'. monantha Xces. 



Luzon. Province of Benguet, Baguio (6524 Elmer) June. 1904. 



(10) POLYTRIAS Hack. 



A low postrate grass with shining red-brown hairy racemes, each joint 

 of the rl mollis bearing two sessile and one pedicellate spikelets. Flower- 

 ing glume witli a terminal awn. 



A nionotypie genus, Java and Singapore, apparently introduced into the 

 Philippines. 



(1) Polytrias amaurea (Bttae) 0. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. (1891) 788. Andro- 

 pogon amounts IJiise in Miq. PI. Jungh. (1854) 360. Polytriat praemorsa Hack, 

 in DC. Monog. Phan. 6 (1889) 189; Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. 6 (1904) 7: 

 Pilger in Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 138. Pollinia praemorsa Nees in Steud. 

 Svn. 1 (1866) 409; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 620. 



LUZON, Manila (386 Merrill) December. 1902. 



Java, Singapore. 



(11) POGONATHERUM Beauv. 



Spikelets very small, the second empty glume and the flowering glume 

 with long delicate awns. Delicate grasses, with solitary spicate inflor- 

 escence. 



Species two, British India to Japan and Malaya; one in the Philippines. 



(1) Pogonatherum saccharoideum Beauv. Agrost. (1812) 9. t. 11 f. ?' ,• 

 Hack, in DC. Monog. Phan. 6 (1889) 192; Hook. f. VI. Brit. Ind. 7 (1897) 141; 

 Rendle in Forbes & Hemsl. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 36 (1900) :sr>7. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio (5915 Elmer) March. 1904. 



India, China, and Malaya. 



Var. monandrum (Roxb.) Hack, in DC. Monog. Phan. 6 (1889) 193; Rendle 

 in Forbes & Hems], in Journ. Linn. Soc. Hot. 36 (1900) 367; Pilger in Perk. 

 Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 138. P. saccharoideum F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) :si(i: 

 Vidal, Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 158; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1880) 290; 

 Ceron Cat. PI. Herb. (1892) 182; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sei. 1 (1900) 

 Buppl. 26. P. erinilum Trill.; Miq. Fl. Ind. Pat. 3 (1859) 616; I'steri. lieitr. 

 Kenn. Philip. Veg. (1905) 133. Pogonopsis tenera Presl Rel, Haenk. 1 (1830) 

 133. /. >,(>; Scribn. Kept. Mo. Pot. Gard. 10 (1899) 52. pi. 2. Andropogon 

 monandrus Poxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, 1 : 2(!0. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Suyoc to Pauai (4721 Merrill) November, 1905: 

 Province of Union. Bauang (5589 Elmer) February, 1904: Province of Rizal, 

 Montalhan (Merrill) March, 1900: Province of Bataan, l.amao River (021 

 Borden) April, 1904; (10 Whit ford) April. 1904; (6696 Elmer) November, 1904; 

 Dinalupijan (1544 Merrill) February, 1903: Province of Nueva Ecija (209 

 Merrill) May, 1902. Mindoro, Paeo River (252 McGregor) April, 1905. Pala- 

 wan (708 Merrill) February, 1903; (710 Fomoorthy) March, 1900. Mindanao. 

 Pake Lanao, Camp Keithley (140 Clemens) February, 1906: District of Davao, 

 Mount Apo (302 DeVore & Hoover) May, 1903. 



Widely distributed in the Philippines. India to Japan and Malaya. 



