371 



373. Oryza (jranuluta Nees et Am. in \\i.<iht. Cat. No. 2354; Hook. f. Fl. Brit, 

 liul. 7 (1897) 93; Merr. in Govt. Lab. I'uhl. 6 (1!)04) 7. 



Luzon. Province of Nueva Viscaya, Quiangan (116 Merrill) .Tunc. 1902. Pala- 

 wan, Puerto Princesa (343 Bermejos) January, 1900. 



Himalayan region to Java and Celebes. 



(41) LEERSIA Sw. 



Distinguished from Ori/za by the aborted empty ghniies and awnless 

 flowering glume. Stamens one to three or in our s])ecies six. 



Species 5, tropical and tenii)erate regions of the World; 1 in the Pliilippines. 



(1) Leersia hexandra S\v. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. (1788) 21; Kunth Enuni. 1 

 (1833) 94; Llanos Frag. PI. Filip. (1851) 26;,F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 318; 

 Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 157; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 288; 

 Ceron Cat. PI. Herb. (1892) 181; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 7 (1897) 94; Rendle 

 in Forbes & Hemsl. Journ. Linn. 8oc. Bot. 36 (1904) 345; Pilger in Perk. 

 Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 145; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 2S. 

 L. glaberriina Trin.; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 367; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 

 318. Hemalocenchrns hexundrus 0. Ktze. Rev. Gen. PI. (1891) 777. LcerHKi 

 lusonensis Presl, Rel. Haenk. 1 (1830) 207. 



Philippines (529 Cuming). Luzon, Manila (41, 381 Merrill) May, August, 

 1902: Province of Benguet, Baguio (4337 Merrill) November, 1905. Province of 

 Bataan, Lauiao {Whit ford) September, 1905. Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp 

 Keithley (394 Clemens) March, 1906. 



The most commonly cultivated forage grass in the Philippines. Sp.-Fil.. 

 Zacdte. T., Barit. 



Tropical Africa, Asia, Malaya, Australia, and America. 



Tribe A^I. PHALARIDE^. 



All tlie spikelets fertile, one-flowered with one to two staminate flowers 

 inserted below the apparently terminal one. Empty glumes four, un- 

 equal, the third and fourth oeeasionally ^'ery small, or one of them rudi- 

 mentary. Flov/ering glume and palea alike, laterally compressed, awn- 

 less, nerves one or wanting. 



(42) MICROLAENA R. Br. 



First and second glumes very short, the third and fourth longer tlian 

 the flowering glume, all keeled. Inflorescence paniculate. 



Species 5 confined to Australia and New Zealand with the exception of the 

 following, which extends to Luzon. 



(1) Mlcrolaena stipoides (Labill.) R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 210; Benth. 

 Fl. Austral. 7 (1S7S) 552: Kunth Enum. 1 (1833) 16; Hack, in Philip. Journ. 

 Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 269. Khrlmrta stipoides Labill. PI. Nov. Holl. 1 (1804) 



91. t. 118. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Mount Tonglong (4831 Merrill) November, 1905; 

 Pauai to Baguio (4696 Merrill) November, 1905: District of Lepanto, Mount 

 Data (4543 Merrill) November, 1905. 



Australia and New Zealand. 

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