Vo^-1 ^ GRAMINEAE 39 



Luzon (Ilocos Norte, Lepanto, Bontoc, Pangasinan, Rizal, Bataan), Po- 

 lillo, Cuming 565, Merrill 1550, Phil. PI. 592, Sp. Blancoanae 165. In open 

 usually rather wet 'grasslands. India to China and Malaya. 



Local names: Daua (Sub.); gulonglapas (Pang.); tinitrigo (Tag.;; 



ISCHAEMUM TODAYENSE Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 7 (1915) 2678. 



Mindanao (Davao), Elmer 10521. In ravines in secondary forests, al- 

 titude about 900 m. Endemic. 



Local name: Halopos (Bag.). 



EXCLUDED SPECIES 



ISCHAEMUM POLYSTACHYUM Presl ; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1882) 315. 



The type of this was from the Marianne Islands a,nd F.-Villar does 

 not really enter the species as Philippine. It is a synonym of Ischaemum 

 digitatum Bvongn. 



ISCHAEMUM TiMORENSE Kunth; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1882) 315. 



ISCHAEMUM MINUS Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1828) 329; F.-Vill. Novis. App. 



(1882) 315; Kunth Enum. 1 (1833) 514; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 



(1857) 498. 

 "Hab. in insulis Philippinis." This is an American species erroneously 

 localized by Presl. It is Is chaem^um, urvilleanum Kunth; see Hack, in DC. 

 Monog. Phan. 6 (1889) 218. Andropogon minor Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. 1 

 (1854) 377 is a synonym. 



13a. EREMOCHLOA Biise 



EREMOCHLOA CI LIAR IS (Linn.) Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) 

 Supj)l. 331. 

 Nardus ciliaris Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 53. 



Ischaemum leersioides Munro in Proc. Amer. Acad. 4 (1864-65) 363. 



Eremochloa leersioides Hack, in DC. Monog. Phan. 6 (1889) 264; 



Pilger in Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 139; Merr. in Govt. Lab. 



Publ. (Philip.) 6 (1904) 6. 



Luzon (Cagayan, Isabela), Merrill 138, B. S. 7813, 7832, 8109 Ramos. 



In open grasslands at low altitudes. Southern China to Tonkin and 



Pegu. 



13b. ROTTBOELLIA Linnaeus f. 



ROTTBOELLIA EXALTATA Linn. f. Suppl. (1781) 114; Nees in Nov. 



Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 19 (1843) Suppl. 1: 173, Hook. Journ. Bot. 



Kew Miscel. 2 (1850) 100; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (1857) 407; F.-Vill. 



Novis. App. (1882) 314; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 158, 



Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 290; Hack, in DC. Monog. Phan. 6 



(1889) 293; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 328, Fl. 



Manila (1912) 78. 

 Rottboellia setosa Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1828) .329; Kunth Enum. 



1 (1833) 466. 

 Rottboellia denudata Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. 1 (1854) 362; Miq. Fl. 



Ind. Bat. 3 (1857) 408; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1882) 314. 

 Rottboellia coelorhachis F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1882) 314, non Forst. 

 Manisuris exaltata O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. (1891) 779. 

 Throughout the Philippines in open places, borders of thickets, etc.. 



