342 



(22) ZOISIA W'illd. (Zoyaia Auct.) 



Spikes slender. Spikelets closely appressed; empty glume one com- 

 pressed, keeled, coriaceous, surrounding the flowering glume and palea. 

 Creeping maritime grasses with ereci flowering stems and rigid leaves. 



Species two <>r three, southern and eastern Asia to the Mascarene Islands, 

 Australia, and New Zealand; one in the Philippines, 



(1) Zoisia pungens W'illd. in ties. Naturf. Fr. X. Schrift. 3 (1801) 441: 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Hat. 3 (1869) So!) ; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 313; Book. f. PI. Brit. 

 Ind. 7 (1897) !»!»: Hendle in Forbes & llemsl. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 36 (1904) 

 ;?44; Pilger in Perk. Frag, Fl, Philip, (1904) 140; Merr. Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 

 (1906) Suppl. 28. Agrostis matrella Linn. Mant. 2: 185. Osterdammia matrella 

 0. Kuntze Rev. Qen. PI. ( 1891 i 781. 



Luzon, Manila (27 Merrill) April, 1902: Province of Bataan, Lamao (1303 

 Whit ford) dune. 1905. Panay, Iloilo (Copeland) January, PMI4. 



Tropical Asia. Malaya. Australia, and the Mascarene Islands. 



(Lappago raoemoaa Honck.= Trajrua rocemosus Scop., has been reported from 

 the Philippines by F.-Villar, Nov. App. (1883) 313, but his record has never 

 been verified. The species is to he expected in the Philippines. Tropics of both 

 hemispheres. ) 



Tribe IV. TRISTEGINEiE. 



Spikelets all perfect, 1 to ^-flowered, in panicled racemes, the rhachis 

 continuous. Empty glumes three, the third sometimes with a staminate 

 flower. Intermediate between Andropogonece and Panicecs. 



(23) ARUNDINELLA Raddi. 



Spikelets pedicellate, usually in pairs on the panicle branches, the 

 pedicels of unequal length. First empty glume shorter than the others. 

 the second frequently awned, the third awnless, usually enclosing a 



staminate flower. 



Species about 26, mostly in the tropical regions of the Old World, a few in 

 South America and Mexico; three in the Philippines. 



1. fourth glume With thl"*e awns, the lateral ones short, capillary ... (II .1. tetOM 

 1. Fourth glume with a single awn. 



2. Spikelets about 2.5 mm. long ; a slender softly pubescent 



annual (2) A. ai/rostoiilrs 



2. Spikelets t to 5 mm. long; perennial ( 2 ) A . nepalensU 



(I) Arundinella setosa li in. Diss. 2 (1824) 63; Cram. Pan. (1826) 245j 

 Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 7 tlsiiT) 70; Rendle in Forbes A llemsl. Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. I'.ot. 36 (1904) 342; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) .'(IS; Merr. Philip. Journ. 

 Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 17!'. Arundinella striata Nees in Hook. Kew. Journ. 2 

 i I860) Kt2: Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. 3 i 1859) 520. A. setosa Trin. var. strieta Pilger 

 in Perk, Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 140. Dantkonia luzoniensis Bteud. Syn. 1 

 (1855) 24."); Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. 3 (1858) 427; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. 

 (1885) l.")!»; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1888) 282; Cerou Cat. PI. Herb. (1892) 

 1S4; F.-Vill. (tss:n 319. Arundinella nervosa F.-Vill. Nov. App, (1883) :;is ? 



lion Nees. 



