871 



37:5. Oryza granulata Neea el Arn. in Wight. Cat. No. 2364; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 

 liid. 7 < 1S!»7 ) 93; Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. 6 (1904) 7. 



Luzon, Province of Nueva Viscaya, Quiangan ( 116 Merrill) June, 1902. Pala- 

 wan, Puerto Princesa (343 Bermejos) January, 1906. 



Himalayan region to .J;iv;i and Celebes. 



(41 I LEERSIA Sw. 



Distinguished from Oryza by the aborted empty glumes and awnless 

 flowering glume. Stamens one to three or in out species six. 



Species 5, tropical and temperate regions of the World; 1 in the Philippines. 



(I) Leersia hexandra Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. (1788) 21; Kuntli Fnuni. 1 

 (1833) 1)4; Llanos Frag. PI. Filip. (1851) 26; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 318; 

 Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 157; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1880) 288; 

 Ceron Cat. PI. Herb. (1892) 181; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 7 (1897) 94; Rendle 

 in Forbes & Hemsl. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 36 (1904) 345; Pilger in Perk. 

 Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 145; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 28. 

 h. glaberrima Trin.j Miq. Fl. Ind. Hat. 3 (1859) 367; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (-1883) 

 318. Hemalocenchrus hexandrus 0. Ki/.e. Rev. Gen. PI. (1891) 777. Lea-sin 

 luzonensis Presl, Rel. Baenk. 1 (1830) 207. 



Philippines (529 Cuming). Luzon, Manila (41, 38] Merrill) May, August. 

 1902: Province of Benguet, Baguio (4337 Merrill) November. 1905. Province of 

 Bataan, Lamao (Whitford) September, L905. Mindanao. Lake Lanao, Camp 

 Keithley (394 Clemens) March, 1906. 



The most commonly cultivated forage grass in the Philippines. Sp.-Fil., 

 Zacdte. T.. Barft. 



Tropica] Africa, Asia. Malaya. Australia, and America. 



Tribe \ II. PHALARIDE.ffi. 



All the spikelets fertile, one-flowered with one to two staminate (lowers 

 inserted below the apparently terminal one. Empty glumes four, un- 

 equal, the third and fourth occasionally very small, or one of them rudi- 

 mentary. Flowering glume and palea alike, laterally compressed, awn- 

 less, nerves one or wanting. 



(42i MICROLAENA R. Br. 



First and second glumes very short, the third and fourth longer than 

 the flowering glume, ad keeled. Inflorescence paniculate. 



Species 5 confined to Australia and New Zealand with the exception of the 

 following, which extends to Luzon. 



(1) Microlaena stipoides (Lahill.) K. Br. Prodr. (1810) 210; Benth. 

 Fl. Austral. 7 (1878) 552; Kunth Fnum. 1 (1833) l(i; Hack, in Philip. Journ. 

 Sci. 1 (1900) Suppl. 209. Bhrharta stipoides Lahill. PI. Nov. Holl. 1 (1804) 

 91. t. 118. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Mount Tonglong (4831 Merrill) November, 1905; 

 Pauai to Baguio (4090 Merrill) November, 1905: District of Lepanto, Mount 

 Data (4543 Merrill) November, 1905. 



Australia and New Zealand. 

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