372 



(43) ANTHOXANTHUM Linn. 



Spikelets in short spike-like panicles; fii'sl and second glumes unequal, 

 herbaceous, the third and fourth clothed with brown hairs. Flowering 

 glume and palea short, membranous. Fragrant grasses. 



Species 6 of the North Temperate Zone and Australia; 1 in northern Luzon. 



(1) Anthoxanthum luzoniense Men. Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1000) Buppl. 

 178. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Pauai (4713 Merrill) November, 1905. 

 Endemic. 



Tribe VIII. AGROSTIDE^ffi. 



Spikelets usually all perfect, l-llouered. the rhachilla sometimes pro- 

 longed beyond the palea. Empty glumes often somewhat unequal, usually 

 equaling or exceeding the flowering glume. Palea usually 2-nerved. 



(44) ARISTIDA I. inn. 



Panicles usually expanded. Rmpty glumes longer than the flowering 



^lume, the latter with a pointed callus and with a terminal trifid or three- 

 branched awn. 



Species about 125, in the wanner parts of both hemispheres; 3 or more in 

 the Philippines. 



] . A slender annual 20 cm. IUkIi or leas (1) A. cumingiana 



1. Perennial. 



2. Stout, 1 in. liiRli with large diffuse many-flowered panicles (2) A. culionensis 



2. About 40 cm. high; panicles narrow, few-flowered (3) .1. Stipoides 



(1) Aristida cumingiana Trim & Etupr. in Mem. Acad. SI. Pctersb. VI. 7 

 (1849) 141; Miq. Kl. fad. Bat. 3 (1859) 381; Bteud. Syn. 1 (1856) 140; Vidal 

 Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) I.")!); Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 2!>2: Ceron Cat. 

 PI. Herb. (1892) 184; Rendle in Forbes & Ileitis!. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 36 

 (1904) 381; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. fad. 7 (1897) '224. I. oapillaoea Cav. Icon. 5 

 (1799) 48, I. -'/dS. f. I, non Lam. ,1. triohodea Walp. Ann. 3 (1852-53) 753. 

 Okaetaria trichodes NTees in Hook. Kew Journ. 2 (1850) 1001. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Ambuklao to Daklan (4385 Merrill) October, 

 1905: District of Lepanto. Suvoe to Cervantes (4446 Merrill) November, 11105: 

 Province of Rizal, Antipolo (7 Fowtoorihy) January, 1906. 



Northern India to southern China and the Philippines. 



(2) Aristida culionensis Pilger in Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 145. 

 Cli-ION (471. 515 Merrill) December. 1902. 



Endemic. 



(3) Aristida stipoides R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 174. var. tenuisetulosa Pilger 

 in Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 140. 



Luzon, Province of Zambales, Iba (.'529 Merrill) June, L902. 



Endemic, i. e., the variety, the species ill northern and central Australia. 



DOUBTFUL AM) EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



Aiustida .sorzo<;o\ i:\sis Presl Pel. Saenk. 1 I 1830) 224; Kunth Enum. 1 

 (1833) 192; Miq. Fl. fad. Pat. 3 (185!)) 381; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 319. 

 "Hah. in Lnzonia ad Sorsogon" Presl. Not seen. 

 Aristida luzoniknssis Cav. Icon. 5 (1799) 45. /. 470. f. J; Kunth Knum. 1 



