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CENTOTHECA Desvaux 
CENTOTHECA LATIFOLIA (Linn.) Trin. Fund. Agrost. (1820) 141. 
Holcus latifolius Linn. Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 1805. 
Centotheca lappacea Desv. in Nuov. Bull. Soc. Philom. 2 (1810) 189; 
Safford 222. 
McGregor 357, Thompson 22, G. E. S. 39, 134. 
Tropical Asia and Africa through Malaya to Australia and Polynesia. 
HORDEAE 
MONERMA Beauvois 
MONERMA REPENS (Forst.) Beauv. Agrost. (1812) 117. 
Rottboellia repens Forst. Prodr. (1797) 9. 
McGregor 527, G. E. S. 120, along the seashore, local name las-dga. 
Along the seashore, Ceylon to Australia and Polynesia. 
BAMBUSEAE 
BAMBUSA Schreber 
BAMBUSA BLUMEANA Schultes f. Syst. Veg. 7? (1830) 1343. 
Bambos blumeana Safford 194. 
McGregor 542, locally known as pio titoca. 
Of wide distribution in Malaya, mostly cultivated. 
BAMBUSA GLAUCESCENS (Willd.) Sieb. ex Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
26 (1868) 89, in syn. 
Ludolphia glaucescens Willd. in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berl. Mag. 2 (1801) 441. 
Bambusa nana Roxb. FI. Ind. 2 (1832) 199. 
McGregor 548, in flower. 
An introduced species, a native of China; now cultivated in many 
tropical countries. 
BAMBUSA VULGARIS Schrad. in Wendl. Collect. Pl. 2 (1810) 26, t. 47. 
McGregor 541, sterile, G. EH. S. 374, in flower, locally known as pio 
palaoan. 
Tropics of both hemispheres. 
This is unquestionably the species that Safford enumerates (p. 195) 
without specific name, as he cites the same native name that Mr. Thomp- 
son has recorded for the flowering specimen. At the same time it is also 
undoubtedly the species that Gaudichaud mentioned, as growing in Guam, 
under the name of Bambusa arundinaria Willd. My identification of the 
specimen has been verified by Mr. Gamble. 
CYPERACEAE 
CAREX Linnaeus 
CAREX FUIRENOIDES Gaudich. Bot. Freye. Voy. (1826) 412; Safford 
215. 
Carex densiflora Pres] Rel. Haenk. 2 (1828) 214; Safford 214. 
G. E. S. 279, February, 1912, in flower. 
The species is known only from Guam, with a variety in the Philippines. 
The types of both Carex fuirenoides Gaudich. and C. densiflora Presl were 
