14 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
unioloides Nees, the only Philippine species of the genus agreeing 
as to habitat. 
Uniola spicata Llanos Frag. Pl. Filip. (1851) 33; F.-Vill. & Naves in 
Blanco FI. Filip. ed. 3, 4* (1880) 23, non Linn.=ERAGROSTIS SPAR- 
TINOIDES Steud. 
Llanos’s Uniola spicata was reduced by Fernandez-Villar to 
Eragrostis cumingii Steud. The description, however, applies 
very closely to Hragrostis spartinoides Steud., which is abundant 
locally about Manila and is widely distributed in the Philippines 
at low and medium altitudes. 
Illustrative specimen from Manila, Luzon, November, 1914 
(Merrill: Species Blancoanae Nos. 170, 422). 
Uniola paniculata Llanos Frag. Pl. Filip. (1851) 32; F.-Vill. & Naves in 
Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 3, 4% (1880) 23, non Linn. =ERAGROSTIS 
DISTANS Hack. 
Llanos’s interpretation of Uniola paniculata was reduced by 
Fernandez-Villar to Eragrostis pilosa Beauv., a species to which 
Llanos’s description does not particularly apply and moreover 
one that apparently did not occur in the Philippines until its 
accidental introduction into Manila sometime after the year 
1905. At the present time (1917) Eragrostis pilosa is definitely s 
known in the Philippines only from few localities in the City 
of Manila. 
CENTOTHECA Desvaux 
Melica philippensis Llanos Frag. Pl. Filip. (1851) 44 (sp. nov.); F.-Vill. & 
Naves in Blanco FI. Filip. ed. 3, 4* (1880) 32—=CENTOTHECA LAT- 
IFOLIA (Osbeck) Trin. (C. lappacea Desv.). 
This species is very common and widely distributed in the 
Philippines, and there is no doubt as to the correctness of this 
reduction of Melica philippensis Llanos. Centotheca malabarica — 
Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 385, based on Poa 
malabarica Linn. (1753) is untenable, as Poa malabarica is a 
Panicum. The Linnean Poa malabarica is erroneously cited 
by Hooker f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 7: 332, as a synonym of Centotheca 
lappacea, this being the source of my error in taking up the 
specific name malabarica under Centotheca; see Merrill in Philip. 
Journ. Sci. 4 (1910) Bot. 248, where Poa malabarica Linn. is 
transferred to Panicum as P. malabaricum (Linn.) Merr., the 
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oldest specific name for the plant later described as Panicum : oe 
arnottianum Nees. 
Illustrative specimen from Manila, Luzon, November, 914 
(Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 206). 
