108 ENUMERATION OF PHILIPPINE PLANTS ^^22 



Throughout the Philippines in open areas at low and medium altitudes. 

 Common in lawns, along roads, and in waste places. Pantropic. 



Local names: Barsanga (Ilk.) ; boto-botones (Bik.) ; galonalpas (Pamp.) ; 

 kusung (Pamp.) ; malaapulid (Pamp.) ; mota (Pamp.) ; mutha (Tag.) ; 

 omadiung (Pamp.); onoran (Pamp.); sur-sur (Pamp.); tarugug (Bik.). 



CYPERUS STOLON I FERUS Retz. Obs. 4 (1786) 10; Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 

 (1828) 169; Boeck. in Linnaea 35 (1868) 489; Naves Novis. App. 

 (1882) 302; C. B. Clarke in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 85. 

 Luzon (Rizal), Panay, McGregor 41, Copeland. In open places at low 



altitudes; rare and local. Tropical Asia to Mauritius, Formosa, and 



through Malaya to tropical Australia. 



CYPERUS UNCINATUS Poir. in Lam. EncycL 7 (1806) 247; C. B. Clarke 



in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 82. 



Cyperus cuspidatus HBK. Nov. Gen. Sp. PI. 1 (1815) 204; Naves 



Novis. App. (1882) 301; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 155, 



Rev. PI Vase. Filip. (1886) 282. 



Cyperus solutus Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. 2 (1855) 14; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 



3 (1856) 263; Naves Novis. App. (1882) 302. 

 Cyperus pusillua Nees in Hook. Journ. Bot. Kew Miscel. 6 (1854) 27, 

 non ? Vahl. 

 Luzon (Bontoc, Benguet, Bulacan, Rizal, Laguna), Mindanao (Lanao), 

 Merrill Phil. PL IJ^SS, Williams 197 Shis, 1969bis, B. S. 19213 Ramoa. In 

 open lands, old clearings, etc., at low and medium altitudes. Pantropic. 

 Local name: Salasa (Tag.). 



CYPERUS ZOLLINGERI Steud. in Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archipel. (1854) 62; 

 Syn. PI. Glum. 2 (1855) 17; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (1856) 264; Naves 

 Novis. App. (1882) 302; C. B. Clarke in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) 

 Bot. 85; Merr. Fl. Manila (1912) 112. 

 Cyperus tenuiculmis Boeck. in Linnaea 36 (1869) 286; Scheff. in Nat. 

 Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. 34 (1874) 50; Naves Novis. App. (1882) 306. 

 Luzon (Cagayan, Ilocos Norte, Benguet, Rizal, Sorsogon), Palawan, Pa- 

 nay, Mindanao, Elmer 16488, 6^73, Merrill 7667, 9310, Phil. PI. 530, B. S. 

 32583 McGregor, 29513 Ramos & Edano, 1106, 4636, 7672, 7820 Ramos. In 

 open grasslands at low and medium altitudes, ascending to 1,600 m. Trop- 

 ical Asia and Africa through Malaya to tropical Australia. 

 Local names: Daat-laua (Tag.); pakama (Bag.). 



DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES 



Cyperus bulbosus Vahl; Naves Novis. App. (1882) 304. 

 Cyperus castaneus Willd.; Naves Novis. App. (1882) 301. 

 Cyperus cephalotes Vahl; Naves Novis. App. (1882) 301. 

 Cy.perus corymbosus Rottb.; Naves Novis. App. (1882) 303. 

 Cyperus esculentus Linn.; Naves Novis. App. (1882) 304. 

 Cyperus eumorphus Steud.; Naves Novis App. (1882) 303. 

 Cyperus laevigatus Linn.; Naves Novis. App. (1882) 301. 

 Cyperus longus Linn.; Naves Novis. App. (1882) 304. 



