376 



(1) Eriachne pallescens R. Jir. Prodr. (1810) 1S4 ; Kunth Knum. 1 (1833) 

 310; Benth Fl. Austral. 7 (187S) 030; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 321; Hook. f. 

 PI. Brit. J nd. 7 (1897) 269 j Rendle in Forbes & Hemsl. Joum. Linn. Soc. Bot. 

 36 (1004) 398; Pilger in Perk. Fl. Philip. (1904) 147. 



Culiox (520 Merrill) December, 1902. 



British India to southern China, Malaya, and Australia. 



(2) Eriachne triseta Nees ex Steud. Syn. 1 (1855) 237; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 

 [nd. 7 (1897) 309; Pilger in Perk. Fl. Philip. (1904) 147. 



Culion {Merrill) February, 1903. 



British India and Ceylon. 



(Eriachne gracilis Brong., a species definitely known only from the Moluccas, 

 has been reported from the Philippines by F.-Villar, Nov. App. (1883) 321; 

 but the record was doubtless based on an erroneous identification.) 



(51) COELACHNE R. Br. 



Very delicate, prostrate grasses with narrow panicles and small, round, 

 awnless, 2-flowered spikelets. 



Speeies about 4, by some authors reduced to 1 with numerous varieties, 

 British India to southern China and Australia: 1 in the Philippines. 



(1) Coelachne hackeli IMerr. in Govt. Lab. I'ubl. 29 (1905) 8. 



LUZON, Province of Benguet, Baguio (5752 Elmer) March. 1904; (4338 

 Merrill) November. 1905. 



Endemic. 



(Coelachne brachiata Munro = (7. pulohelUt R. Br. var. braohiota Munro, and 

 0. pulehella R. Br., have been reported from the Philippines by K. Villar, Nov. 

 App. (1883) 321, and one or both may later be found in the Archipelago, 

 although to date K. Millar's records have not been verified.) 



(52) AVENA Linn. 



Spikelets large, 2 to 6-flowered, paniculate. Empty glumes mem- 

 branous, unequal ; flowering glumes rounded on the hack, 5 to 9-nerved, 

 the awn dorsal, geniculate, twisted below, ('alius of the flowering glumes 

 and the rhachilla often hairy. 



Species about 00, temperate regions of the Old World, a few in the New World ; 

 1 or 2 introduced into the Philippines. 



(1) Avena sativa Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 79: Hook. f. Fl. Brit. hid. 7 (1897) 

 275. 



LUZON, Province of Benguet (4284, 4747 Merrill) November. 1905, one cul- 

 tivated, the other on fresh talus slopes near a road construction camp. 



{Avena Sterilis Linn., and A. fatiia Linn., have been reported from the Phil- 

 ippines by F.-Villar, Nov. App. (1883) 319. but to date his records have not 

 been verified. If either or both occur in the Philippines it will he as is the case 

 with Arena sativa, only as introduced plants.) 



Tribe X. CHL0RIDE2E. 



Spikelets one to many-flowered, in two series upon the outer side of 

 the continuous rhachis of the spike or raceme, these spikes or racemes 

 digitately or paniculately disposed. Flowering glumes deciduous with 

 the fruit, the empty glumes usually two and persistent. 



