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rarely produces flowers in the Philippines. Blanco speaks of 
having seen old flowers once; I have never seen them in fifteen 
years residence in the Archipelago. The fresh leaves have the 
strong lemon-like odor characteristic of Andropogon citratus DC., 
and chemical analysis of oil extracted from the Philippine grass 
is the same as that extracted from de Candolle’ Ss species. Its 
common Tagalog name is tangldd. 
Illustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, October, 
1913 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 267). 
Holcus saccharatus Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 47; ed. 2 (1845) 82 (sacha- 
ratus); ed. 3, 1 (1877) 58, non Linn.=Holcus sorghum Linn.= 
ANDROPOGON SORGHUM Brot. var. VULGARIS (Pers.) Hack. 
The form described by Blanco is apparently very near the 
typical Holcus sorghum Linn., which supplies the earliest valid 
generic and specific name; in fact Holcus has been recently 
adopted by Hitchcock as the proper generic designation of those 
species of Andropogon that were placed by Hackel in the sub- 
genus Sorghum. This form is the commonest one found in 
cultivation in the Philippines and is in scattered cultivation 
throughout the Archipelago. Its generally used native name is 
batdd, and the species is probably of prenistoric introduction 
in the Archipelago. 
Illustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
December, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 654). 
PASPALUM Linnaeus 
Paspalum villosum Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 40; ed. 2 (1845) 28; ed. 3, 1 
(1877) 53, non Thunb.=PASPALUM SCROBICULATUM Linn. 
Paspalum sumatrense Roth; Llanos Frag. Pl. Filip. (1851) 22; F.-Vill. & 
Naves in Blanco FI. Filip. ed. 3, 4* (1880) 15=PASPALUM SCRO- 
BICULATUM Linn. 
Fernandez-Villar reduced Paspalum villosum Blanco to Pas- 
palum mollicomum Kunth.=Panicum muticum Forst., a species 
that does not extend to the Philippines. Blanco’s description 
applies unmistakably to the common and widely distributed Pas- 
palum scrobiculatum Linn. The Tagalog name parag-is, cited 
by him, is now generally applied to Eleusine indica Gaertn: 
Roth’s species was apparently correctly interpreted by Llanos, 
while the exact form described by him is apparently the same 
as that described by Blanco as Paspalum villosum. Following 
the current interpretation of Philippine material it is placed : 
under Paspalum scrobiculatum Linn. 
_ Illustrative specimen from Taal Volcano, Batangas Province, 
Luzon, November, 1916 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 1035). 
