BAMBOOS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 281 
teriore scabra, caeterum glabra, 5 ad 7 cm longa, 6 ad 15 mm lata, nervi 
utrinque 3 vel 4, obscuri, petioli 1 ad 1.5 mm longi; vaginae molles, 
striatae, scabrae, apice truncatae, minute ciliatae, ligulis petiolo aequi- 
longis. Flores in spiculis minutis spicatis terminalibus vaginatis, alter- 
natim distantibus; vaginae parvae, puberulae, 1.5 mm longae. Spiculae 
oblongae, ad 4.5 mm longae; glumae vacuae 2, minutae, emarginatae, 
puberulae, ciliatae, I 1 mm, II 1.5 mm longa; gluma florens late emar- 
ginata, in sinu mucronata, 7-nervia, pubescens, 2.5 mm longa, 3.5 ad 
4 mm lata; palea florenti similis, convoluta, apicis alis utrinque angulatis, 
apice solum obscure 2-carinata ; lodiculae 1 ad 3 (?), spathulatae, glabrae, 
rarissimae. Stamina 6, libera, 3 mm longa, linearia, apiculo scabro. 
Ovarium lanceolatum, stylo tenui, stigmatibus 2 vel 3, pilosis. Caryopsis 
oblonga, 5.5 mm longa, 4 mm lata, basi glumis suffulta, apice rostrata; 
pericarpium a semine facile solutum. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Mount Santo Tomas, Elmer 6542, June, 1904. 
Negros, Canlaon Voleano, Bur. Sci. 1140 Banks, June, 1906, doubtful. 
A very curious and interesting plant, “rare in the mossy forest at the summit 
of the mountain” (Elmer). It seems to me to be distinctly a Dinochloa, but 
better specimens may possibly alter this opinion and possibly even prove it to 
belong to a new genus. Banks’ specimen is like a small wiry Panicum and has 
no. flowers. 
