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This form has usually four spikes, with the spikelets in several rows 

 on each partial inflorescence. It is unquestionably referable to Roxburgh's 

 species as currently interpreted. India to Malaya, but not previously re- 

 ported from China. 



OPLISMENUS Beauvois 



OPLISMENUS UNDULATIFOLIUS (Ard.) Beauv. Agrost. (1812) 54. 



Kw^angtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill lOSJ^l, 

 August 24, 1917, on ledges along streams in deep ravines, altitude about 

 900 meters. 



This species, which extends from southern Europe to Japan southward 

 to tropical Africa and Australia, has not previously been reported from 

 southern China. 



GARNOTIA Brongniart 



GARNOTIA STRICTA Brongn. Bot. Duperry's Voy. (1829) 133, t. 21. 



Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 10313, 

 11080, October, 1916, and August, 1917, on ledges in torrent beds, altitude 

 about 1,000 meters. 



The specimens come well within the range of variation of this widely 

 distributed species as interpreted by Hooker f. Fl, Brit. Ind. 7 (1897) 243. 

 It has not previously been reported from China. 



GARNOTIA BARBULATA (Nees) comb. nov. 



Miquelia barbulata Nees in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 19 (1843) Suppl. 



1:178. 

 Garnotia patula Munro ex Benth. Fl. Hongk. (1861) 416, 

 Berghaiisia patula Munro in Proc. Amer. Acad. 4 (1860) 262. 

 Kwangtung Province, Teng Woo Mountain, Levine & Groff 68, November 

 18, 1916. 



This species, for which the oldest specific name is here adopted, is known 

 only from southern China. 



GARNOTIA GILIATA sp. nov. 



Herba annua, 25 ad 40 cm alta, vaginis et foliis et spiculis 

 perspicue longe molliter ciliatis ; culmis erectis e basi decumben- 

 tis, 1 ad 1.5 mm diametro, glabris, nodis leviter ciliato-barbatis ; 

 foliis flaccidis, anguste lanceolatis, usque ad 11 cm longis et 

 9 mm latis, planis, acuminatis, utrinque parce sed molliter et 

 perspicue ciliatis; inflorescentiis usque ad 13 cm longis, ramis 

 strictis (junioribus), inferioribus usque ad 6 cm longis; spiculis 

 lanceolatis, acuminatis, glumis vacuis aequalibus, anguste lanceo- 

 latis, tenuiter acuminatis, 3-nerviis, parce ciliatis, gluma fertilis 

 obscurissime 1-nervia, 5 mm longa, apice tenuiter aristata. 



An erect, simple, annual grass, 25 to 40 cm high, the culms 

 decumbent at the base and sometimes rooting at the lower nodes, 

 gregarious but scarcely caespitose, the culms glabrous, 1 to 1.5 

 mm in diameter, the nodes sparingly bearded with few, long, 



