385 



Bauang (5707 Elmer) February, ]!)()4: Province of Nueva Viacaya, Dupax 



{Merrill) May, 1902. Culion (686 Merrill) February, 1903. 

 Tropical .Asia, Malaya, and Australia. 



(10) Eragrostis spartinoides Steud. Syn. 1 (1855) 265; Pilger in Perk. 

 Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 148. 



Philippines (668 Cuming). Luzon, Province of Nueva Fcija, Carranglang 



(257 Merrill) May, 1902. Skmkhaha (414!) Merrill) .June, 1905. 



Endemic. 



In addition to the above species of Eragrostis, E. megastachya Link.=/v. 

 major Host., has been reported from the Philippines by Vidal, Than. Cuming. 

 Philip. (1883) 159; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1880) 203; based on No. 1782 Oummg. 

 The identification may have been erroneous. I have seen no specimens of this 

 species from the Philippines. 



(02) CENTOTHECA Desv. 



Panicles expanded the spikelets small, tin; flowering glumes rounded on 

 the back, 5 to 7-nerved, awnless but usually with hooked appendages or 

 small protuberances on the keel. Erect broad-leaved sylvan grasses. 



Species three, tropical Africa, Asia. Malaya, and Polynesia; one in the 

 Philippines. 



(1) Centotheca malabarica (Linn.). 1'oa via la barica Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 

 09. Centotheca lappacea Desv. in Nuov. Bull. Soc. Pliilom. 2 (1810) 189: 

 Kunth Rev. Gram. 1 (1829) 317. /. 70; Enum. 1 (1833) 300; Presl Rel. 

 Haenk. 1 (1830) 258; Miq. Fl. Ind. Pat. 3 (1859) 398; F.-Vill. Nov. App. 

 (1883) 322; Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 293; Phan. Cuming. Philip. 

 (1885) 15!) : Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 7 (1897) 332; Pilger in Perk. Frag. Fl. 

 Philip. (1904) 148; Rendle in Forbes & Hemsl. Journ. Linn. Soc Pot. 36 (1904) 

 419; Usteri Beitr. Kenn. Philip. Veg. (1905) 132; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 

 (1906) Suppl. 29; Sebum, und Lauterb. Fl. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. Slidaee (1901) 

 184. Cenchrus lappaceus Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1703) 1488. Centotheca hit i folia 

 Trin. Fund. Agrost. (1820) 141; 0. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. (1891) 705. Meiica 

 philippinensis Llanos Frag. PL Filip. (1851) 44. 



Philippines (552 Cuming). Luzon. Province of Union. Bauang (5044 Elmer) 

 February, 1904: Province of Bataan, Lamao River (0049 Elmer) November. 

 1904; (3204 Merrill) October, 1903; (1018 Whit ford) December, 1904: Prov- 

 ince of Zambales. Subic (Hallicr) December, 1903: Province of Nueva Viscaya. 

 Dupax (240 Merrill) May, 1902: Province of Tayabas, Atimonan (058 Whitford) 

 August, 1904; Malicboi (36 Ritchie) April, 1903: Province of Principe, Baler 

 (1126 Merrill) September, 1902. Siiuiyan (10 McGregor) July, 1904. Pa nay, 

 Province of Antique (42 Yoder) December, 1904. Culion (494 Merrill) De- 

 cember, 1902. Palawan, Puerto Princesa (342 Bermejos) January, 1900. Ba- 

 labac (431, 515 Mangubat) March, 1900. Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp 

 Keithley (204 Clemens) February, 1900. 



Tropical Africa. Asia, Malaya. Polynesia, and Australia. 



(03) LOPHATHERUM Brongn. 



Spikelets often two-ranked, sessile on (lie branches of the panicle. 

 linear, 1-flowered, with a tuft of sterile glumes at the apex; empty 

 glumes two; flowering glumes, pointed or short awned. 



Species three, British India to Japan and Malaya; one in the Philippines. 



