385 



J};iiuuig (5707 Elmer) February, 1!)04: rrovince of NuoA'a Viscaya, Dupax 

 (■Merrill) May, 1902. Culion (G8G Merrill) February, 1!)03. 

 Tropical Asia, Mabiya, and Australia. 



(10) Eragrostis spartinoides Steud. Syn. 1 (1855) 265; Pilger in Perk. 

 Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 148. 



Philippines (668 Cuming). Luzon, Province of Nueva Keija, Carranglang 

 (2:57 Merrill) May, 1902. Semerara (4140 Merrill) -lune, 1905. 



Endemic. 



In addition to the above species of Eragrostis, E. megastachya Link.=L'. 

 )iiajor Host., lias been reported from the Philippines by Vidal, Phan. Cuming. 

 Philip. (1883) 159; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 293; based on No. 1782 Cuming. 

 The identification may have been erroneous. I have seen no specimens of tliis 

 species from the Philippines. 



(62) CENTOTHECA Desv. 



Panicles expauded the spikelets small, the flowering' glumes rounded on 

 the back, T) to 7-nerved, awnless l)ut usually with hooked appendages or 

 small protuberances on the keel. Erect l)road-leaved sylvan grasses. 



Species three, tropical Africa, Asia, Malaya, and Polynesia;' one in the 

 Philippines. 



(1) Centotheca malabarica (Linn.). I'oa malabarica Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 

 69. Ccntolhcca lappacea Desv. in Nuov. Bull. Soc. Philom. 2 (1810) 189; 

 Kunth R<-v. Gram. 1 (1829) 317. t. 70; Enum. 1 (1833) 366; Presl Rel. 

 Haenk. 1 (1830) 258; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 398; F.-Vill. Nov. App. 

 (1883) 322; Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 293; Phan. Cuming. Philip. 

 (1885) 159; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 7 (1897) 332; Pilger in Perk. Frag. Fl. 

 Philip. (1904) 148; Rendle in Forbes & Hemsl. Journ. Linn. Soc Bot. 36 (1904) 

 419; Usteri Beitr. Kenn. Philip. Veg. (1905) 132; Merr. in Philip. Journ. 8ci. 1 

 (1906) Suppl. 29; Schum. und Lauterb. Fl. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. Siidsee (1901) 

 184. Ccnchrus Ictppacetis Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1763) 1488. Centotheca latifolia 

 Trin. Fund. Agrost. (1820) 141; 0. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. (1891) 765. Melica 

 philippinensis Llanos Frag. PI. Filip. (1851) 44. 



Philippines (552 Cuming). Luzon, Province of Union, Bauang (5644 Elmer) 

 February, 1904: Province of Bataan, Lamao River (6649 Elmer) November, 

 1904; (3264 Merrill) October, 1903; (1018 Whitford) December, 1904: Prov- 

 ince of Zambales, Subic (Hallier) December, 1903: Province of Nueva Viscaya, 

 Dupax (246 Merrill) May, 1902: Province of Tayabas, Atimonan (658 Whitford) 

 August, 1904; Malicboi (36 Ritchie) April, 1903: Province of Principe, Baler 

 (1126 Merrill) September, 1902. Sibuyan (10 McGregor) July, 1904. Panay, 

 Province of Antique (42 Yoder) December, 1904. Culion (494 Merrill) De- 

 cember, 1902. Palawan, Puerto Princesa (342 Bermejos) January, 1906. Ba- 

 LABAO (431, 515 Mangubat) March, 1906. Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp 

 Keithley (264 Clemens) February, 1906. 



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



(63) LOP HAT HE RUM Brongn. 



Spikelets often two-ranked, sessile on the liranches of the panicle, 

 linear, 1-flowered, with a tuft of sterile glumes at the apex; empty 

 glumes two ; flowering glumes, pointed or short awned. 



Species three, British India to Japan and Malaya; one in the Philippines. 



