72 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
cited by Llanos, and it is extensively gathered by the Filipinos 
for feeding horses and other stock. 
Illustrative specimen from Manila, Luzon, November, 1914 
(Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 104). 
CHLORIS Swartz 
Chloris inflata Llanos Frag. Pl. Filip. (1851) 31; F.-Vill. & Naves in Blanco 
Fl. Filip. ed. 3, 47 (1880) 22, non ? Link =CGHLORIS BARBATA Sw. 
This was reduced by Fernandez-Villar to Chloris truncata R. 
Br., a species that is unknown from the Philippines. Chloris 
barbata Sw. is the only species of the genus found in or near 
Manila, is common and widely distributed in the settled areas of 
the Philippines at low altitudes, and Llanos’s description agrees 
with it in all respects. 
Illustrative specimen from Manila, Luzon, November, 1914 
(Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 211). 
ELEUSINE Gaertner 
ELEUSINE INDICA Gaertn.; Llanos Frag. Pl. Filip. (1851) 45; F.-Vill. 
& Naves in Blanco FI. Filip. ed. 8, 4* (1880) 33. 
Eleusine indica (Linn.) Gaertn. was correctly interpreted by 
Llanos. It is very common and widely distributed throughout 
the settled areas of the Philippines. 
Illustrative specimen from Batangas Province, Luzon, October, 
1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 735). 
DACTYLOCTENIUM Willdenow 
Eleusine mucronata Llanos Frag. Pl. Filip. (1851) 46; F.-Vill. & Naves in 
Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 3, 4* (1880) 34, non Spreng., nec Michx.=DAC- 
TYLOCTENIUM AEGYPTIUM (Linn.) Richt. 
Llanos’s Eleusine mucronata, which he intended to represent 
Sprengel’s species of the same name, was reduced by Fernandez- 
Villar to Chloris barbata Sw., a species with which the descrip- 
tion does not agree. I consider it to represent Dactyloctenium 
aegyptium which is very common and widely distributed in the 
settled areas of the Philippines at low and medium altitudes. 
Illustrative specimen from Manila, Luzon, November, 1914 
(Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 212). 
PHRAGMITES Trinius 
Arundo tecta Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 48; ed. 2 (1845) 33; ed. 3, 1 (1877). 
60, non Walt.=PHRAGMITES VULGARIS (Lam.) Trin. (P. com 
munis Trin.). 
The species is common in low swampy places, along the scale 
of stagnant pools and streams, ete. Its common Tagalog name 
is tambo. It is especially abundant, forming dense thickets, 
