360 



but with broader leaves. If I have correctly identified Bttae's species it is rep- 

 resented in our herbarium by Nos. 15100 and 2 7 7 S 1 fi Herb. Koorders, and 

 also by specimens from plants cultivated in the Botanical Garden at Buitenzorg, 



(26) Panicum sarmentosum Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1 (1820) :iOS ; Kunth Enum. 1 

 (1833) 126; Steud. Syn. 1 (1855) 98; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 312; Vidal 

 Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 157; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 287 ; Hook. f. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. 7 | 1897) ">4: Rendle in Forbes & Eemsl. Journ. Linn. Soc. Hot. 36 

 (1904) :{:{:{; Me/, in Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 14:5: Merr. in Philip. Journ. 

 Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 27. Panicum vacillans steud. Syn. 1 (1855) 75. P. ear- 

 tensum Steud. I. c. 72, teste Vidal. P. incomptum Trin. Diss. 2:200; Icon. 20. 

 t. 232; Kunth Enum. 1 (1833) 112; Miq. Fl. Ind. Hat. 3 (1859) 4.11. 



Philippines (<i7 ( .» Cuming). Luzon, Province id' Bataan, Lamao (loin 

 WMtford) December, 1904; Dinalupijan (1608 Merrill) January. 1903: Prov- 

 ince of Zambales, Subic (Hallier) December, 1 !>().'{. Mimkiko, Haco Hivcr (KitiS 

 Merrill) January. 1903; (120 McGregor) April, 1905. CUMON (512 Merrill) 

 December, l!>02. Palawan. Point Separation (825 Merrill) February, 1903. 

 Halaiiac (452 Mangubat) March. 1906. 



India to southern China and Malaya. 



(27) Panicum caudiglume Hack, in Oesterr. Hot. Zeitsch. 51 (1901) 428; 

 Govt. Lab. Publ. 25 (1905) SO: Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 27. 

 Panicum n. sp.? affinis Panico trachyrhachidi Benth., Mez in Perk. Frag. Fl. 

 Philip. ( 1904) 144. 



Palawan (Paragua), San Antonio Bay (832 Merrill) February, 1903. Luzon, 

 Province of P.ataan, Painao Itiver (3307 Merrill) October, 1903. 

 Java. 



(28) Panicum mindanaense .Merrill, sp. nov. 



(ilal)i'uin : culmis erectis, 30—40 cm. altis, ramosis, gracilibus, basi Bub- 

 geniculatis, douse caespitosis; vaginis quam internodiis brevioribus; 

 laminia Lanceolatis, 2—5 cm. longis, plus minus 3 nun. latis, acuminatis; 

 paniculis diffusis, ramosis, 10-15 cm. longis, rami's sparsis, remotis, lili- 

 formibus; spiculis 2.5—3 mm. longis, acuminatis, pedicellatis, ovato- 

 lanceolatis; gluma prima ovato-lanceolata, spiculae aequante, acuminata. 



A glabrous, caespitose .u'rass 30 in 45 cm. high, the culms erect or 

 ascending from somewhat geniculate bases, slender, branched ; nodes 

 glabrous. Sheaths lax, glabrous, shorter than the Lnternodes. Panicles 

 diffuse, in t<> 15 em. long, the branches few. remote, slender, solitary or 

 opposite, spreading or erect-spreading, angular, scabrous, the lower ones 

 5 to S cm. long. Spikelets 2.5 to 3 mm. long, acuminate, pedicellate. 

 ovate-lanceolate, purplish; first glume equaling the Bpikelet, 5-nerved, 

 ovate-lanceolate; second and third glumes subequal, 5-nerved, acute. 

 Pldwering glume elliptical-ovate, glabrous, shining, 1,2 mm. long. 



Mindanao, Lake Lanao, (amp Keitbley (99 Clemens) January, February, 

 Plot;. 



A species related to Panicum trachyrhachis Benth., and /'. caudiglume Hack.. 

 differing from botb in its smaller spikelets and shorter leaves and from the 

 latter in its glabrous leaves, and like those two species recognizable by its very 

 lonj, r . acuminate first glume. 



