379 



I)Ol'I5TFX"L AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



Eleusine coR(X'Axa Gaortn. Fruct. 1 (1788) 8. I. 1; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Iiid. 7 

 (1897) 294; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 3'20. 



Widely cultivated in British India and lepnrtod from tlie Pliiiippines by 

 F.-Villar. F.-Villar's record not verified. 



Eleusine VERTiCELLATA Roxb. ; Hook. f. 1. c. 2!);); F.-Vill. 1. c. 320. 



Reported from tlie Philippines by F.-Villar, but liis record was probably l)ascd 

 on a form of Elcnsine indica Gaertn. Tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



Eleusine polydactyla Steud. Syn. 1 (1855) 211; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (18.")!)) 

 386; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 320. 



Based on No. 824 Cuming from the riiilippines, according to Steudel. Index 

 Kewensis, however, gives the locality as tropical Africa. 



(50) DACTYLOCTENIUM WiHd. 



p]inpty glumes strongly mucronate-pointed ; rliaehis produced as a 

 point l)eyond the ujiper spikelets, otherwise much as the preceeding genus. 



Species 1 with several varieties, cosmopolitan in the tropical and warmer 

 regions of the World. 



(1) Dactyloctenium aegyptiacum (Linn.) Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. (180!)) 

 1029; Kunth Enum. 1 (1833) 201; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 384; Rendle in 

 Forbes & Hemsl. Journ. Linn. See. Bot. 36 (1904) 400; Pilger in Perk. Frag. Fl. 

 Philip. (1904) 147. Eleusine aegtjptiaca Desf. Fl. Atl. 1 (1798-1800) 85; 

 F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 320; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 159; Rev. 

 PI. Vase. Filip. (1880) 293; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 7 (1897) 295. Digiidria 

 lanosa Llanos Frag. PI. Filip. (1851) 28. 



Luzon, Manila (63 Merrill) May, 1902; (30 McGregor) October, 1904: Prov- 

 ince of Cavite, Cavite (157 Foooworthy) July, 1905: Province of Bataan, Dina- 

 lupijan (1569 Merrill) January, 1903: Province of Principe, Baler (1127, 113G 

 Merrill) September, 1902: Province of Union, Bauang (5677 Elmer) February, 

 1904: Province of Rizal, Morong (1395 Ramos) August, 1900. Palawan, Puerto 

 Princesa (4174, 4188 Curran) May, 1900. Mindanao, Lake Lanao {Clemens) 

 February, 1906; District of Davao (567 Copeland) March, 1904; (229 DcYore 

 & Hoover) April, 1903. 



Widely distributed in the Tropics of the Old World, introduced into the New. 



(57) LEPTOCHLOA Beauv. 



Inflorescence a panicle formed of numerous slender spikes. Spikelets 

 small, two to many-flowered, rarely one-flowered, compressed, awnless. 

 Species about 12, warmer parts of both liemispheres, 2 in the Phli])pines. 



1. Culms rather stout; spikelets 4 to 6-flowered (1) L. ehinensis 



1. Culms slender: spikelets 2 to 3-flowered '- (2) L. filiformis 



(1) Leptochloa ehinensis (Linn.) Nees in Syll. Ratisb. 1 (1824) 4; Steud. 

 Syn. 1 (1855) 209; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 389; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 

 320; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 159; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1880) 2!)3; 

 Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 7 (1897) 299; Rendle in Forbes & Hemsl. Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. Bot. 36 (1904) 407; Pilger in Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 147. L. fetra- 

 quetra Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1830) 288; Miq. Fl. Ind. I'.at. 3 (1859) 389; 

 F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 320, ex descr. I'oa ehinensis Linn. S]). PI. (1753) 0!). 



