GRAMINEAE 69 
SPINIFEX Linnaeus 
Stipa spinifex Linn.; Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 41; ed. 2 (1845) 29; ed. 3, 
1 (1877) 54=SPINIFEX LITTOREUS (Burm. f.) Merr. in Philip. 
Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) Bot. 229. 
The Linnean species, pistillate plant, was correctly interpreted 
by Blanco. The earliest valid specific name, under the Inter- 
national Code of Botanical Nomenclature is that supplied by 
Stipa littorea Burm. f. (1768) ; Stipa spinifex Linn. dates from 
1767; while Spinifex squarrosus Linn. dates from 1771. Along 
sandy shores throughout the Philippines. 
Illustrative specimen from Parafiaque, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
January, 1915, comm. Mrs. Clemens (Merrill: Species Blanco- 
anae No. 768). 
Spinifex squarrosus Linn.; Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 46; ed. 2 (1845) 31; ed. 
3, 1 (1877) 57=SPINIFEX LITTOREUS (Burm. f.) Merr. in Philip. 
Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) Bot. 229. 
The Linnean species, staminate plant, was correctly interpreted 
by Blanco. It is common along sandy shores throughout the 
Philippines. 
Illustrative specimen from Parafiaque, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
January, 1915, comm. Mrs. Clemens (Merrill: Species Blanco- 
anae No. 764). 
ORYZA Linnaeus 
Oryza sativa praecox Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 274 (var. nov.) ; ed..2 (1845) 
190; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 340=ORYZA SATIVA Linn. 
This is one of the cultivated varieties of rice, still commonly 
known to the Tagalogs as dumali. It is an upland rice, grown 
on recently cleared slopes, not in paddies. It was reduced by 
F,-Villar to Oryza praecox Lour. 
Illustrative specimen from Balayan, Batangas Province, Lu- 
zon, August 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 480). 
—Oryza sativa pilosa Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 275 (var. nov.) ; ed. 2 (1845) 
191; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 341=ORYZA SATIVA Linn. 
This variety was referred by F.-Villar to Oryza latifolia Desv., 
but is manifestly only one of the numerous forms of Oryza 
sativa Linn. Blanco’s variety is characterized by the promi- 
nently pubescent glumes. The form is one of the upland rices, 
grown on recently cleared slopes, not in regular paddies. 
Illustrative specimens from Batangas Province, Luzon, there 
known as bolohan, the same native name as Blanco cites (Merrill: 
Species Blancoanae Nos. 477, 1018). 
