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Luzon, Q^nguet Subprovince, Baguio, Merrill 7665, May, 1909, on seepage 

 slopes about rice paddies, altitude about 1,450 m. 



Not previously reported from the Philippines, an additional distinct 

 northern type in the flora of northern Luzon. Widely distributed in North 

 America, throughout Europe and northern Asia, extending southward only 

 in China. 



FIMBRISTYLIS Vahl 



FIMBRISTYLIS CAPITULIFERA sp. nov. § Trichelostylis. 



Planta perennis glabra, subrigida, usque ad 40 cm alta; foliis 

 numerosis, angustis, culmo brevioribus; spiculis omnibus ses- 

 silibus, capitato-congestis, capitulis umbellato-dispositis ; glumis 

 numerosis, 5-nerviis, oblongis, subobtusis, marginibus latis, sca- 

 riosis; nucibus compressis vel plano-convexis, minutissime stria- 

 tis, circiter 0.7 mm longis; stylo trifido. 



A glabrous, somewhat rigid, apparently densely caespitose, 

 glabrous, perennial plant 20 to 40 cm high. Leaves very nu- 

 merous, sheathing the bases of the stems, subrigid, flat or nearly 

 so, 1 to 2 mm wide, 8 to 18 cm long. Culms terete, striate, 

 exserted, rather slender. Inflorescence umbellate, consisting of 

 a central sessile head and from 3 to 6 peduncled ones, each head 

 with from 10 to 20 sessile, densely disposed spikelets 3 to 6 mm 

 in length. Glumes numerous, oblong, about 2 mm long, some- 

 what keeled, closely 5-nerved in the median portion, with broad, 

 somewhat scarious and thin margins, apex somewhat obtuse, 

 usually apiculate. Nut obovate, brown, about 0.7 mm long, 

 somewhat compressed or plano-convex, not trigonous, minutely 

 striate; style glabrous, slender, about 2 mm long, 3-fid. 



Batanes Islands, Batan, Bur. Sci. 3575 Fenix, Bur. Set. 10203 McGregor, 

 Bur. Sci. 3171, 3172, 3173 Mearns. BABUYANES ISLANDS, Babuyan Islands, 

 Bur. Sci. 3926 Fenix. Camiguin Island, Bur. Sci. ]tOU2 Fenix (type). 



This species was previously recorded by me under the name of Fimhris- 

 tylis spathacea Vahl, to which it does not seem to be closely allied. It is 

 well characterized by its spikelets being all sessile and disposed in dense 

 heads, the central head sessile, the others peduncled; the rays of the umbel 

 vary from 1 to 4 cm in length. The species belongs in the section Triche- 

 lostylis, and is probably as closely allied to Fimbristylis junciformis Kunth 

 as to any other species. It differs from Kunth's species in its much smaller 

 umbels, the spikelets much more numerous in each head, none of them 

 being solitary, and in the style being quite glabrous, not villous below the 

 fork. 



FIMBRISTYLIS PALUDOSA sp. nov. § Trichelostylis. 



Densissime caespitosa, erecta, glabra, efoliosa, 60 ad 100 cm 

 alta, culmis distincte 3- vel 4-angularibus ; umbellis decompositis, 

 2 ad 4 cm longis; spiculis numerosis, ovoideis, 2.5 ad 3.5 mm 

 longis, brunneis, glumis usque ad 10, ovatis, acutis vel obtusis, 



