880 



Philippines (82fi Cuming). Luzon, Manila (D, 378 Merrill) April, August, 

 1902: Province of Pampanga, Bacolor ((il Parker) .June. 1!M)4: Province of 

 Rual, Moroni,' (1400 Ramos) August. 1906, 



British India to China, Japan, Malaya, and Australia. 



(2) Leptochloa filiformis H. et S. Sjyst. 2 (1817) 580j Presl ELel. Iiaenk. 1 

 (1830) 288 (var. humilior) j Miq. Fl. hid. Bat 3 (1859) 889; Kunth Enum. 1 

 (1833) 270; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 320; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. hid. 7 (1897) 

 298; Rendle in Porbea & Hems]. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 36 (1904) 407; Usteri 

 Peitr. Kcnn. Philip. Veg. (1905) 133. 



Luzon, Province of Union, Bauang (5682 Elmer) February, 1904. Palawan, 

 Puerto Princess (4175 Outran) May, 1900. 



Tropical Asia, Africa, Malaya, and America. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES OF enum mi:.i:. 



Several species of Bouteloua have been erroneously credited to the Philippines 

 by various authors, hut the genus is exclusively American. The species errone- 

 ously credited to the Philippines are as follows: 



Bouteloua cubtlvbndula (Michx.) Ton-.; Eutriana ourtipendula Trin.; Miq. 

 Kl. hid. Pat. 3 (is:.!)) 383; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 320. 



Bouteloua babbata hag.: Eutriana barbata Kunth, Rev. (ham. 1 (1829) 9G; 

 Enum. 1 (1833) 282; Miq. Fl. hid. Bat. 3 (1859) 284; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 

 321. Aetinochloa barbata R. et S. Syst. 2 (1817) 420. 



Bouteloua tenuis Qriseb.; Ohondroeium tenue Beauv. Agrost, (1812) 41; 

 Kunth Enum. 1 (1833) 276; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 320. 



Bouteloua simplex hag.; Chondroaium simplex Kunth Enum. 1 (1833) 27(5; 

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



POLTSCHISTIS PAUPEBCULA Presl ltd. llaenk. 1 (1830) 294. I. 'it. f. 11; Kunth 

 Enum. 1 (1833) 282; Miq. Fl. hid. Pat. 3 (1859) 3S4; P.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 

 321. 



"Bab. in insula Luzonia" Presl. Erroneously localized by Presl, a 'species of 

 tropical America, not of the Philippines =*Pentarrhaphi8 sp. 



Tribe XI. FESTUCEiE. 



[nflorescence in panicles or racemes or spike-like racemes. Spikelcts 

 two to many-flowered, rarely L-flowered, usually perfect. Empty glumes 



usually shorter than the nearest flowering glume; flowering glumes awn- 

 less in- awned. 



(58) PHRAGMITES Trin. 



Spikelets loosely many-flowered, the lowest flower staminate, the others 

 usually perfect ; empty and flowering glums glabrous, the rhachilla 

 long-penicellate. Tall, reed-like grasses with spreading many-flowered 

 panicles. 



Species about 3. 1 cosmopolitan. 1 in South America, and 1 in tropical Asia 

 and Malaya; 2 in the Philippines. 



1. Culms mostly 1.5 to 2.5 high; panicles mostly about 30 cm. long or 



less ( I ) /'. vulgaris 



1. Culms frequently 5 m. high ; panicles frequently 60 »ai. long, the 



branches widely spreading (2) P. karka 



