CYPERACEAE 81 
Cyperus quadriflorus Llanos op. cit. 18 (sp. nov.); 12 (cuadriflorus) = 
MARISCUS DILUTUS (Vahl) Nees. 
In the reductions of the above two species I have followed 
Naves. The first species is certainly correctly reduced, and the 
reduction has been verified by C. B. Clarke who has examined 
a specimen from Llanos; see Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 
81. The second species, Cyperus cuadriflorus (i. e., quadri- 
florus), is probably correctly reduced; at least I know of no 
other Philippine species that agrees with Llanos’s description. 
Mariscus dilutus Nees (M. microcephalus Presl) is exceedingly 
variable in size and is common and widely distributed through- 
out the settled areas of the Philippines at low and medium alti- 
tudes, growing in open wet lands, in rice paddies, along 
streams, ete. 
Illustrative specimen from Manila, Luzon, December, 1914 
(Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 658). 
KYLLINGA Rottboell 
Kyllinga triceps Linn. f. (p. p.); Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 34; ed. 2 (1845) 
23; ed. 8, 1 (1877) 44=KYLLINGA MONOCEPHALA Rottb. 
The species is very common and widely distributed in the 
Philippines, Blanco’s description applying unmistakably to Rott- 
boell’s species. Kyllinga triceps Linn. f. is in part identical 
with K. monocephala Rottb., the Linnean species having been 
based on two different forms. 
Illustrative specimen from Manila, Luzon, October, 1913 
(Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 448). 
FUIRENA Rottboell 
Fuirena striata Llanos Frag. Pl. Filip. (1851) 21 (sp. nov.); F.-Vill. & 
Naves in Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 3, 4* (1880) 14=FUIRENA CILIARIS 
(Linn.) Roxb. (F. glomerata Lam.). 
Llanos’s description agrees perfectly with Fuirena ciliaris. 
The plant, agreeing with the habitat cited by Llanos, is a char- 
acteristic one of rice paddies. It is common and widely distrib- 
uted in the settled areas of the Philippines at low and medium 
altitudes. 
Illustrative specimen from Manila, Luzon, November, 1914 
(Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 173). 
SCIRPUS Linnaeus 
Carex glomerata Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 24; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 45, non 
Thunb.=SCIRPUS ARTICULATUS Linn. 
This was reduced by Fernandez-Villar to Fimbristylis ferru- 
ginea Vahl, but the reduction is manifestly wrong, although F. 
ferruginea is common at low altitudes in the Philippines, es- 
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