370 



(39) LEPTASPIS R. Br. 



Staminate spikelets small, terminal ob short branehlets; pistillate 

 Bowers 1 to '.?, sessile on the lower portion of the same branches, large, 

 globose, with two short empty glumes. Leaves Large, broad, pedicellate. 



Species 5 in the tropics of the Old World: 2 or :> in the Philippines. 



I. Leaves oblong to obloiiR-oblanceolate. (1) L. urci nlahi 



1. Leaves lanceolate (2) h. ruin imiii 



(1) Leptaspis urceolata (Roxb.) R. Br. in Benn. PL Jav. Rar. (1838-1852) 

 2:5. /. 6; Miq. PI. tod. Bat. 3 (1859) 374; Steud. Syn. 1 (1855) 106; F.-Vill. 

 Nov. App. (1883) 318; Vidal Rei ;. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 288; Phan. Cuming. 

 Philip. (1885) 157. //. manUtensis Steud. Syn. 1 (1855) 8; Miq. PI. tod. Hal. 3 

 ( 18:"i!)) ;!74; P.-Vill. Nov. A|>|>. (1883) :SIS. I'Ikiius uroeolatua Roxb. Fl. tnd. 3 

 ( 1832) 811, 



Mindanao. Davao (702 Copeland) March, 1904; Catalonan {OopeUmd) April, 

 1902: Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley (614 Clemens) June, 1908, 

 Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago to New Guinea. 



(2) Leptaspis cumingii Steud. Syn. 1 (1855) 4l(i; Miq. PI. tod. Bat. 3 

 (1859) 375; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 318; Vidal. Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 

 157; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. I 1886) 288. 



PlIM.M'IMNKN (1(127 I'll ill in;/) . Not seen. 



Endemic. 



(3) Leptaspis s]>. /.. cochleata Thw.t Back, in Govt. Lab. Publ. 35 (1905) 



si. 



Mindanao. Davao (703 Copeland) March. 11104. Material too impelled for 

 satisfactory identification. 



(40) ORYZA Linn. 



Spikelets elongated; empty glumes of two small scales or bristles, and 

 underneath these, two more minute rudimentary empty glumes. Flower- 

 ing glume complicate and keeled, usually awned. Stamens »>. 



Species about n. in the Tropics of both hemispheres; 2 in the Philippines, 



1. with many forms and varieties, cultivated (rice). 



1. Spikelets paniculate; cultivated only (1)0. tatiVQ 



1. Spikelets In a simple raceme: a sylvan species (2) O. me\icrio>iti 



(li Oryza sativa Linn. Sp. PL (I7.">:i) :i:i:i ; Kunth Enum. 1 (18:i:5i 7: 

 Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 368; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 318; Pilger in 

 Perk. Frag. PI. Philip. (1904) 145: Merr. Philip. Journ. 8ci. 1 (1908) Suppl. 28; 

 Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 1 (1837) 27:!: ed. 2 (1845) 190 et varr. binumban, (/luliiiosa. 

 lamuyo, piloaa, praecow, quinemda, rubra et violaoea Blanco 11. cc. 0. writtata 

 Blanco 11. cc. 274, 190. 0. latifolia Desv.; F.-Vill. Nov. App. iiss:n :no. (). glu- 

 tinoaa, montana et i>r<i<-co.v Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 215; F.-Vill. Nov. App. 

 (1883) 319. 0. minuta Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1830) 2()S ; Kunth Enum. 1 (1833) 

 7: Miq. Fl. 1ml. Bat. 3 (1859) :17 1 : F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 319, ex descr. 



Tropical Asia, but generally cultivated in tropical and warm countries of the 

 World. Common rice, widely cultivated in the Philippines, with very numerous 

 cultural varieties. 



(2) Oryza meyeriana (/oil. et Mor.) Baill. Mist. PL 12 (1894) 166; Pilger 

 in Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 14.'). Podia meyeriana /oil. et Mor. Vera. 1ml. 

 Archip. (1854-55) 103; Steud. Syn. 1 (1855) •'! ; Miq. Fl. tnd. Hat. 3 (1859) 



