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(72) DINOCHLOA Bum. 



Spikelete very small. L-flqwered, in distant small fascicles or scattered 

 along the branches of b very large panicle. Empty glumes 3 or 2, 

 obtuse. Flowering glume one. similar to the empty glumes. A scan- 

 dent slinib. 



Species two, Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago; one in the Philippines. 



(1) Dinochloa scandens (Blume) <>. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. (1891) 77:5. 

 Bambuea $candena Blume ex Nees in Flora 7 (1824) 291. Naatua tjangkorreh 

 Schultes Byst. Veg. 7 (1830) 1358; Knntli Fnum. 1 (1833) 4:i0 : Bteud. Syn. 1 

 US.").")) ;Y,V.\. Dinochloa tjankorreh Bum in tfiq. PI. Jungh. (1865) :sss : ICq. 

 ft. In.l. Hat. 3 (1869) 415; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) :S24 ; Munro in Trans. 

 Linn. Boc. 26 (1868) 153. pi. 5; Vidal Cat. PL Prov. Manila (1880) 48; Binopeis 

 Atlas (1883) t. 96. /'. C; l'lian. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 169; Rev. PI. Vase. 

 Filip. (1886) 2'.i4; Ceron Cat. PI. Herb. (1892) 186; Pilger in Perk. Frag. ft. 

 Philip. (1904) 150; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1908) Suppl. 2!t : Qamble 

 in Ann. Bot Gard. Calcutta 6 ( 1896) L12. 



Palawan, Puerto Princes* (276 Bermejos) January, 1906; Casuarina Point 

 (621 Focoworthy) March. 1906. Balabac (447 Uangubat) March. 1906. Ba- 

 silan (2977, 3980, 3981 Hutchinson) February, 1906. Mindoko. Bongaboag 

 River (3701, 4066 tferrirt) March. 1908. Mindanao. Davao (1239 Copclamd) 

 April. 1904: Province of Surigao (319 BoUter) April, 1906. 



Malaya. 



\'ar. angustifolia (Haekel) h. tjankorreh var. cmguatifoHa Hack, in herb. 



Foliis parvis. 4 ad 17 cm. longis, <>.."> ad 1.6 cm. latis. 



Philippines (<>;S7 Owning). Luzon, Province of* Btotaan, Lamao (210-2 

 Borden) November, 1904: Province of Laguna, Mount Maquiling (5146 Merrill) 

 March. 1906. Mindoko. Pole (2224 Merrill) May. 1903. Mindanao. District of 

 Davao, Todays (1239 Copelamd) April. 1904. P.ash.an [Hallier) January, 1904. 



Distinguished from the type by its very much smaller leaves, hut intermediate 

 forms occur. Munro gives leaf measurements that include this narrow leave 1 

 form in the species, but the measurements given by (Iambic do not include it. 



D OUBTFUL AND KXCI.I'DKD SPECIES OP ItAMIU SK.E. 



BEESHA kiikkdii Kunth; Yidal Cat. PI. Prov. Manila (1880) 4S ; F.-VHL 

 \ov. App. (1883) 324. Above records for this species from the Philippines 

 never verified, probably erroneous identificatkms^JfeJooon«>a bambuaoidet Trin., 



a species of British India and one not to he expected in the Philippines. 



('KlMiAi.osiAciivrM CAPITATUM Munro. Credited 1o the Philippines by F.- 

 Villar, Nov. App. (*1883) .'524. A species of British India, not to be expected 

 in the Philippines. 



DENDBOCALAMUS 8IQANTEUS Munro. Credited to the Philippines by F.-'Yillar 

 Nov. App. (1SSH) 324, who stales thai he saw cultivated specimens. Possibly 

 cultivated in the Philippines, but if so. rarely. The "giani bamboo" of British 



India. 



DENDBOCALAMUS LATIEOBU8 Munro. Credited to the Philippines by F.-Yillar 

 Nov. App. (1883) 324, who states that he saw cultivated specimens. A species 

 of Formosa, southern China, and Burma, F.-Villar's record from the Philippine-. 

 ,„»t verified. The figure given by Vidal Sinopsis Atlas (1883) /. 96. /. B. was 

 not drawn from Philippine material, hut was copied from the plate in Munro's 



monograph, teste Vidal 1. c. p. 42. 



OXYTONANTHEBA sp. Ceron Cat. PI. Herb. (1S!>2| 185. An undetermined 

 species of which I have seen no specimens. 



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