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cups, and even teinpoi'ary lookini;' utensils; for fisli traps, corrals, and 

 wiers; for carrying- poles, walking sticks, musical instruments, pipes, 

 and pipestems; fire-making apparatus, l)lo\vguns, arrows, and spear 

 handles; for rope, coarse and fine hats etc. The young slioots of some 

 species are used for food. Good drinking water is frequently found in 

 the hollow internodes, especially in the climbing species {Dinochlua and 

 Schizophyllum) , and various parts of some species are used hy the 

 natives in the practice of medicine. It is very probable that eventually 

 the more abundant species will be found to have considerable value as 

 a material for making paper. 



About 17 of the 225 species and varieties enumerated in the ]u-esent 

 paper have lieen introduced into the Islands either because of their 

 economic value or accidentally as weeds. The most important of these 

 introduced species are the cultivated ones, Euchlaena luxwrians Schrad., 

 Zea mays Linn., Saccliarum officinaruiu Linn., Andropogon sorghum 

 Brot., Setaria italica Beauv., Oryza sativa Linn., and Triticum vulgare 

 Vill. Bamhusa hlumeana Schultes, the most common building bamboo 

 in the Philippines, is apparently cultivated only, and not a native species. 

 Cenchriis echinatus Linn., Paspalum conjugatum Berg., and Chloris 

 harhata S\v., have been introduced as weeds, probal)ly all from tr()[)ical 

 America. 



About -iG species and varieties are endemic, including one juonotypic 

 genus, GarnotieUa phiUppmensis Stapf. Thirty-two species are cosmo- 

 politan in the Tropics of the world, a few of them extending into the 

 temperate regions. Twenty-nine represent northern or Asiatic types, 

 the most characteristic of which are PoUlniu qtiadriiierris Hack., P. lin- 

 hcrbis var. willdenowiana forma motiuslaclrya Hack., P. niuhi Hack., 

 Ophiiinis inonostacliAjus Presl, Saccliarum arundiruiceum Eetz., Iscliac- 

 m 11)11 iingustifolium Hack., Ercmochlou ciliaris ^Icrr., Arihnixon niicro- 

 pliyllus Hochst., A. ciliaris, varieties, Arundinella seiasa Triu., A. agro- 

 sloides Trin., Digitaria pediceUaris ]\Ierr., Isachne dehilis Rendle, ]\jni- 

 cuni ri/hjsiuii Lam.. A til li(j.r((ntlii(iii Inzoniense ^Ivri-., Arislida niiiiiiig- 

 iana Trin. & Kupr., Agrosiis clmcri Men'., Cahiniagroslis arundinncen 

 nipponica Hack., ('. fill folia Merr., Kriaclnie Iriscta Xees, (Utrldclnic 

 hackelii Merr., Eragroslis juponica Trin.. ]*oa luzonicnsis .Men.. Unniiiis 

 pancifioriis Hack., and liritcliypodium sil rnlicuni Beau\. : of these, 

 AnihoxunUiuni, Agrosiis, Calamagroslis, Pan. Jlroiiiiis. nnd llrachypo- 

 dium are distinctly boreal. 



.Vbout 12 represent Australian tyix's, of which tlu> following are known 

 only from Australia and the rhili])pin('s : I'ollinia irrilnns Hack., Andro- 

 pogon fragil'is Hack., .1. halleyi F. Muell., Microlacna stipoidcs 1{. Br., 

 and Andropogon filipcnduliis vai'. hich nitllicrus Hack.. A ndropogon scri- 

 ceiis and Roitboellia ophiuroidcs Hcnth. ai'c known only fi'om .\ustralia, 

 Xew (iuinea, and the Philippines. I'crolis mm U. l>r.. I'tiiiicinn cuiidig- 

 JiiHic Hack., /'. iiiiiidaiKK'iisc Mci'i'.. Isi-linciiniiii (inimliiKicciiin var. 



