344 



(5056 Merrill) March, 1906. Mindobo, Baco River (203 MoQregor) April, 

 ]!to."); il7!t.") Merrill) April, 1903. Negros, Gimagaan River ( 1667 Whitford) 

 May, 1906, Mindanao, Province of Misamis, Mataline Kails (3922 Hutchinson) 

 March, 1906. 



British India and Malaya to New Guinea. 



•iDe 



V. PANICE^. 



Spikelets one or sometimes two flowered, the second flower staminate, 

 verv rarely perfect, in the axil of the third glume, arranged in spikes, 

 racemes, or panicles, the axis usually continuous. Flowering glume and 

 palea of the perfect flower always firmer in texture than the empty 

 glumes, unawned, the empty glumes rarely awned. 



[•2r>) PASPALUM Linn. 



Spikelets l-flowered, usually obtuse, in two to four ranked racemes or 

 spikes, these two to many, digitate or disposed m panicles, seldom solitary. 

 Flowering glume and palea cartilaginous; empty glumes two. 



Species about I7."> iii the tropical and subtropical regions of both hemispheres 

 but most abundant in America: four in the Philippines. 



1. Spikes geminate at the ends of the culms. 



2. Leaves broad, fiat ; spikelets suborbieular, :'. mm. Ions, the 



hyaline margins bf the second glume eiliate (3) P. COnjUffatUm 



2. Leaves distiehous, narrow; spikelets ovate-oblong, about 3 



mm. lone, glabrous (A) I', dittichtm 



1. Spikes alternate on an elongated rhaehis. 



2. Spikelets mostly 4-ranked (2) P. longifolium 



2. Spikelets 2-ranked ... -.. (1)/'. tcrobiculatum 



(1) Paspalum scrobiculatum Linn. Mant. (1707) 29; Miq. Fl. 1ml. Bat. 3 

 (1859) 431: Knntli Kntiin. 1 (1833) 53; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 310; Vidal 

 Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) L56; Hcv. l'l. Vase. Filip. (1888) 286; Ceron Cat. 

 PL Herb. (1892) 179; Hook. f. PI. Brit. Ind. 7 (1897) 10; Etendle in Forbes 

 A llemsl. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 36 (1904) 329; Me* in Perk. Frag. l'l. 

 Philip. (1904) 141: Merr. Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 26. I><tsi><ilitin 

 oartilagineum Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1830) 216; Miq. l'l. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 432; 

 F.-Vill. Nov. App. (iss:i) 316; Sebum, und Lauterb. Fl. Deutsch. Sehutssgeb. 

 Bttdsee (1961) I7."i; Scribn. Rept. M<>. Bot. Gard. 10 (1899) 4!). Paspalum 

 villosvm Blanco l'l. Filip. ed. 1 (1837) 46; ed. 2 (1846) 28; ed. :?. 1 (1877) 

 53 f mm Thunb. Paspalum sumatrense Roth; F.-Vill. Nov. App- (1883) 316. 

 Paspalum k<>m Will. I. Sp. l'l. 1 (1797) 332; Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1830) -ilti. 

 Paspalum thunbergii Kunth ex Steud. Syn. 1 (1855) -2S ; Me/, in Perk. Frag. 

 Fl. Philip. ( 1904) 14 1. 



Li /on. Manila (S Merrill) April, 1 m>2 : (<> Soribner) .Line. 1902: Province 

 of Benguet (47'.»:{ Merrill) November, 1906; (5759 Elmer) March, 1!»<)4; (4X44 

 Curran) August, 1966: District of Lepanto, Balili (4(i-2!) Men-ill) November, 

 l!l(>.->: Province of Nueva Ecija, Carranglang (235 Merrill) May. 1902: Prov- 

 ince of Bataan, (3146 Merrill) October, 1903. ('ri.M)N (47!) Merrill) December. 



l!K>-2. Balabac (469 Mangubat) March, 1966. ISasii.an (4S DeVore d Hoover) 

 April, 1963. Mindanao. Lake Lanao, (amp Keithley {Clemens) December, 1965. 



Tropical ami warm countries of the world. 



Schumann ami Lauterbach retain Paspalum oartilagineum Presl, as a distinct 



