IX, C, 5 Gates: Pioneer Vegetation of Taal Volcano 423 
Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd. 6701. Local on the strand. 
Digitaria consanguinea Gaud. 6757, 7362. Local on the strand. 
Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn. 7400. Local on the strand and in pockets. 
Imperata cylindrica koenigii Benth. 6738. Fairly well distributed in the 
northeastern part. 
Miscanthus sinensis Andr. 6863, 7398. Very infrequent in_ isolated 
clumps at higher elevations. 
Oryza sativa L. One specimen seen. 
Panicum caudiglume Hack. 7335. Bottom of deep valley; rare. 
Panicum distachyum L. 6792. In grassy parang on Mount Binintiang 
Malaki. 
Panicum repens L. 6847. Locally abundant in pockets at bluff ends and 
on the strand. 
Paspalum secrobiculatum L. 6751, 7462. Local on the strand. 
Paspalum sp. 17825. Ravine, foot of Mount Mataas-na- golod. 
Phragmites vulgaris (Lam.) Trin. 6745, 6800. Fairly abundant on low 
wet areas at the outer ends of ravines. 
Saccharum spontaneum indicum Hack. 6884, 7363, 7405. A very common 
grass, widely distributed in virtually all parts of the island where 
any vegetation is present, particularly on all slopes and sides of 
ravines; a few plants below the rim of the crater on the inside. The 
most abundant plant on the island. 
Themeda gigantea (Cav.) Hack. 6705, 6796, 6864, 6881. Locally abun- 
dant, especially on Mounts Balantoc and Binintiang Malaki. 
CYPERACEAE 
Bulbostylis barbata Kth. 6780, 6783, 7349, 7408, 7461. A strand plant; 
feund also in similar situations elsewhere on the island. 
Cyperus compressus L. 6702. Local on the strand. 
Cyperus diffusus Vahl. 7380, 7428. Strand plant. 
Cyperus distans L. 6801, 7329, 7360. On the strand and in ravines. 
Cyperus radiatus Vahl. 6704. Local on the strand. 
Mariscus stuppeus (Forst.) Merr. 6825, 6848, 7606. On the strand and 
in the Phragmites marsh. 
PALMAE 
Arenga sp. One tree invading parang in north central region. 
ARACEAE 
Amorphophallus campanulatus (Roxb.) Bl. 6855. In parang near Pira- 
piraso and one plant in a Phragmites marsh. 
Pistia stratiotes L. 7464. Floating aquatic washed up along the shore. 
LEMNACEAE 
Lemna trisulea Hegelm. Washed up on the shore with Pistia. 
COMMELINACEAE 
Commelina nudiflora L. 6868. Trailing herb; grown up through ash in 
a ravine near Pirapiraso. 
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