LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
art 2a 
Vol. H. Manila, P. I., December 14, 1908. 
THREE SCORE OF NEW PLANTS 
BY : 
A. D. E. ELMER. 
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GRAMINEJE. 
ISACHNE R. Br. 
Isachne stricta Elm. n. sp. © 
Tufted; stems 9 to 14 dm. long, 2 mm. thick, many 
from the root cluster, terete, strict, straw colored toward the 
base, yellowish green toward the top, quite rigid, somewhat 
recurved at the top, sparingly branched. Leaves scattered 
especially above the middle; flat, ascending, quite stiff, paler 
beneath, margins thickened and scabrous, pale green and 
minutely fluted on the upper side, beneath palescent or glauc- — 5 - 
ous, green and sparsely beset with whitish strigose scabrid 
hairs, linear lanceolate, 15 cm. long and 8 mm. wide or larger, 
apex slenderly acuminate, base roundly constricted; nerves 
beneath straw color; the lower sheaths shorter than the in- "us x 
ternodes, the upper ones overlapping, striate, nearly smooth, 
well separated toward the throat, the margins ciliate pubescent; _ " 
ligule obsolete or represented by a fringe of white ciliate hairs. — 
 Panicle strict, the upper portion slightly recurved, yellowish - 
green, the younger ones enclosed by the uppermost leaf sheath, 
even the basal pnm of the mne panicle m about 
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