360 



but with broader leaves. If T have eorrectly identified Biise's species it is rep- 

 resented in our herbarium b.v Nos. 15109 and 27781 /3 Herb. Koorders, and 

 also by specimens from plants cultivated in the Botanical Garden at Buitenzorg. 



(26) Panicum sarmentosum lloxb. Fl. Ind. 1 (1820) 308; Kunth Enum. 1 

 (1833) 126; Steud. 8yn. 1 (1855) 98; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 312; Vidal 



Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 157; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 287; Hook. f. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. 7 (1897) 54; Rendle in Forbes & Hemsl. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 36 

 (1904) 333: Mez in Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 143; Merr. in Philip. Journ. 

 Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 27. Panicum racillans Steud. Syn. 1 (1855) 75. P. ex- 

 tensum Steud. 1. c. 72, teste Vidal. P. incomptum Trin. Diss. 2: 200; Icon. 20. 

 t. 232; Kunth Enum. 1 (1833) 112; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 451. 



Philippines (679 Cutning) . Luzon, Province of Bataan, Lamao (1019 

 Whitford) December, 1904; Dinalupijan (1608 Merrill) January, 1903: Prov- 

 ince of Zambales, Subic {HalUer) December, 1903. Mindoro, Baco River (1068 

 Merrill) January, 1903; (120 McGregor) April, 1905. Culion (512 Merrill) 

 December, 1902. Palawan, Point Separation (825 Merrill) February, 1903. 

 Balabac (452 Manguhai) March, 1906. 



India to southern China and ISIalaya. 



(27) Panicum caudiglume Hack, in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitsch. 51 (1901) 428; 

 Govt. Lab. Publ. 25 (1905) 80; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1900) Suppl. 27. 

 Panicum n. sp.? aflinis Panico trachyrliachidi Jjcntli.. Mez in Perk. Frag. Fl. 

 Piiilip. (1904) 144. 



Palawan (Paragua), San Antonio Bay (832 Merrill) Februarj^, 1903. Luzon, 

 Province of Bataan, Lamao River (3307 Merrill) October, 1903. 

 Java. 



(28) Panicum mindanaense ^lerril!, sp. nov. 



Glabrum ; cubiiis erectis, 30-10 em. altis, rainosis, graeilibus, basi siib- 

 geniculatis, dense caespitosis; vaginis qiunii iiiteruodiis brevioribus ; 

 laminis lanceolatis, 2-5 cm. longis, plus minus 3 mm. latis, acuminatis; 

 paniculis diffusis, ramosis, 10-15 cm. longis, ramis sparsis, rcmotis, fili- 

 i'ormibus; spiculis 2.5-3 mm. longis, aeiimiuatis, pedicellatis, ovato- 

 hxnccolatis; gluma prima ovato-lanceolata, spiculac aequante, acuminata. 



A glabrous, caespitose grass 30 to 45 cm. higli, tbe culms erect or 

 ascending from somewbat gcuicubite bases, slender, braiicliod; nodes 

 glabrous. Shoatbs bi.\. glabrous, sliorter tban tbe internodes. Panicles 

 diffuse, 10 to 15 cm. long, the brandies few, remote, slender, solitary or 

 opposite, spreading or erect-spreading, angular, scabrous, the lower ones 

 5 to 8 cm. long. Spikclets 2.5 to 3 mm. long, acuminate. jK'dicellate, 

 ovate-lanceolate, pur])lisb; first glume equaling Ibe spikclet. 5-nerved, 

 ovate-lanceolate; second and third glumes siili('(]ii;d. 5-n('rvt'(b acute. 

 Flowering gliiiiif elliptical-ovate, glabrous, shining, 1.2 mm. long. 



Mindanao, Lai^c Lanao. Cam]) Kcithley (99 Clcnrcnfi) .lamiary. l-'cliruary, 

 1900. 



A species related to Panicuia Irachijrliachis I'enth.. and /'. ciiiKlighiiiir Hack., 

 diU'ering from both in its smaller spikelets and slmrlcr leaves and from the 

 latter in its glabrons leaves, and like tliose Iwn species recd^^iiizable by its very 

 long, acuminat(> first glume. 



