379 



DOUBTFUL AM) EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



Eleusine COBOCANA Gaertn. Fruct. 1 (1788) 8. t. 1; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 7 



(1897) 294; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) .'520. 



Widely cultivated in British India and reported from the Philippines by 

 F.-Villar. F.-Villar's record not verified. 



Eleusine vekticellata Roxb. ; Hook. f. I. e. 295; F.-Vill. 1. c. 320. 



Reported from the Philippines by F.-Villar, hut his record was probably based 

 on a form of Eleusine indica Gaertn. Tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



Fleusine I'oi.vn.uTYLA Steud. Syn. 1 (1855) 211; Miq. Fl. Ind. Pat, 3 (1S59) 

 386; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 320. 



Based on No. S24 Cuming from the Philippines, according to Steudel. Index 

 Kewensis, however, gives Hie locality as tropical Africa. 



(56) DACTYLOCTENIUM Willd. 



Empty glumes strongly mucronate-pointed ; rhachia produced as a 



point beyond the upper spikelets, otherwise much as the proceeding genus. 



Species 1 with several varieties, cosmopolitan in the tropical and warmer 

 regions of the World. 



(1) Dactyloctenium aegyptiacum (Linn.) Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. (ISO!)) 

 1029; Kunth Enum. 1 (1833) 201: .Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 384; Rendle in 

 Forbes & Hemsl. Journ. Linn. Soc Hot. 36 (1904) 400; Pilger in Perk. Frag. Fl. 

 Philip. (1904) 147. Eleusine acgyptiaca Desf. Fl. Atl. 1 (1798-1800) 85; 

 F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 320; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 159; Rev. 

 PL Vase. Filip. (188G) 293; Hook. f. FL Brit. Ind. 7 (1897) 295. Digitaria 

 Zcmosa Llanos Frag. PL Filip. (1851) 28. 



Luzon, Manila (03 Merrill) May. 1902; (Si McGregor) October. 1904: Prov- 

 ince of Cavite, (avite (157 I'o.neorthy) duly, 1905: Province of Pataan, Dina- 

 lupijan (1509 Merrill) January, 1903: Province of Principe. Paler (1127, 1130 

 Merrill) September, 1902: Province of Union, Raining (5077 Elmer) February, 

 1904: Province of Rizal, Morong (1395 Ramos) August, 1900. Palawan, Puerto 

 Princesa (4174, 4188 Curran) May, 1906. Mindanao, Lake Lanao (Clemens) 

 February, 1906; District of Davao (507 Copehmd) March. L904; (229 DeVore 

 <6 Hoorer) April, 1903. 



Widely distributed in the Tropics of the Old World, introduced into the New. 



(57) LEPTOCHLOA Beauv. 



[nflorescence a panicle formed of numerous slender spikes. Spikelets 

 small, two to many-flowered, rarely one-flowered, compressed, awn less. 



Species about 12, warmer parts of both hemispheres, 2 in the Phlippines, 



1. Culms rather stout; spikelets 4 to 6-flowered (1) L. eliiuensis 



1. Culms slender; spikelets 2 to 3-flowered (2) L. filiform in 



(1) Leptochloa chinensis (Linn.) Nees in Syll. Ratisb. 1 (1824) 4; Steud. 

 Syn. 1 (1855) 209; Miq. FL Ind. Pat. 3 (1859) 389; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 

 320; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 159; Rev. PL Vase. Filip. (1S80) 293; 

 Hook. f. FL Brit. Ind. 7 (1897) 299; Rendle in Forbes & llemsl. .Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. Pot. 36 (1904) 407; Pilger in Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 147. //. lelro- 

 quetra Presl Pel. Eaenk. 1 (1830) 288; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 389; 

 F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 320, ex descr. Poa chinensis Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 09. 



