82 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
pecially near the sea. Blanco’s description calls for a plant that 
is similar in appearance to his Carex tuberosa [—Eleocharis 
dulcis (Burm. f.) Trin.], with many, short, conglomerate spike- 
lets near the base of the stems. This description applies only 
to Scirpus articulatus Linn., among all the Cyperaceae known 
to me to occur in the Philippines. It is common in wet places 
in and about Manila and is probably of wide distribution in the 
Philippines. 
Illustrative specimen from Manila, Luzon, October, 1913 (Mer- 
riul: Species Blancoanae No. 268). 
Cyperus difformis Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 32; ed. 2 (848) 22° ed. 3,1 
(1877) 41, non Linn.=SCIRPUS GROSSUS Linn. f. 
Scirpus kysoor Roxb.; Llanos Frag. Pl. Filip. (1851) 20 (kisoor) ; F.-Vill. 
& Naves in Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 3, 4* (1880) 14 (kisoor) =SCIRPUS 
GROSSUS Linn. f. 
Fernandez-Villar reduced Cyperus difformis Blanco to Cyperus 
ornatus R. Br., which is a synonym of Cyperus procerus Rottb., 
and a species that does not extend to the Philippines. C. B. 
Clarke, Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 84, refers Cyperus 
difformis Blanco to Cyperus malaccensis Lam. This may be in 
part correct, but Blanco’s description, at least for the most part, 
applies to Scirpus grossus L. f., which is very common in low wet 
lands about Manila. The only Philippine sedge known to me 
to which Blanco’s statement “Esta planta * * * de la al- 
tura de un hombre, y su tallo se hace de mas de una pulgada 
de grueso” applies is Scirpus grossus Linn. f., which is commonly 
known by the Tagalogs about Manila as tiquio, the native name 
cited by Blanco. Scirpus kysoor Llanos was reduced by Fer- 
nandez-Villar to Scirpus maritimus Linn., a species that does 
not occur in the regions from which Llanos secured his material, 
and one to which his description does not at all apply. I can 
see no reason for considering Llanos’s ace other than the 
common Scirpus grossus Linn. f. 
Illustrative specimens from Calumpit, Bulacan Province, Lu- 
zon, January, 1915 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 692) ; Ma- 
nila, Luzon, October, 1913 (Mergent Species Blancoanae Ne 
564). 
ELEOCHARIS R. Brown 
Carex tuberosa Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 35 (sp. nov.) ; ed. 2 (1845) 24; ed. 
3, 1 (1877) 45, t. 15, non Degl.=ELEOCHARIS DULCIS (Burm. f.) _ 
Trin. (Eleocharis plantaginoidea W. F. Wight; E. plantaginea R. Br., 
Andropogon dulcis Burm. f.). 
This species was reduced by Naves to Eleocharis tuberosa 
Schultes. It is of local occurrence in the Philippines, growing 
