44 ENUMERATION OF PHILIPPINE PLANTS 



1922 



Local names: Balioko (Bis.); barani (Ilk.); paja de meca (Sp.) ; tang- 

 lad (Tag., Bik., Bis.) ; salai (Tag.) ; sai (Mbo., Mand., Sul.) ; salaid (Tag.). 



ANDROPOGON CONTORTUS Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 1045; Blanco Fl. Filip. 



ed. 1 (1837) 38, ed. 2 (1845) 26, ed. 3, 1 (1877) 49; Merr. in 



Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 338, Fl. Manila (1912) 83, Sp. 



Blancoanae (1918) 61. 

 Heteropogon contortus Beauv. ex R. & S. Syst. 2 (1817) 836; Nees 



in Hook. Journ. Bot. Kew Miscel. 2 (1850) 99; F.-Vill. Novis. App. 



(1882) 315; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (1857) 493; Vidal Phan. Cuming. 



Philip. (1885) 158, Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 291. 

 Heteropogon polystachyus F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1882) 315, non 



Schultes. 

 Heteropogon roxburghii Nees in Hook. Journ. Bot. Kew Miscel. 2 



(1850) 99, haud Arn. 



Luzon (Ilocos Norte, Union, Lepanto, Nueva Ecija, Nueva Vizcaya, 

 Pangasinan, Pampanga, Rizal, Zambales), Mindoro, Mindanao (Bukidnon, 

 Misamis). In open grasslands at low and medium altitudes, often very 

 abundant. Certainly an introduced plant in the Philippines. Pantropic. 



Local name: Sibat-sibatan (Tag.). 



The Philippine form is mostly referable to the var. hispidissimus Hack, 

 in DC. Monog. Phan. 6 (1889) 587. 



ANDROPOGON FASTIGIATUS Sw. Prodr. (1788) 26; Hack, in DC. Monog. 

 Phan. 6 (1889) 393, Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 267; Merr. 

 op. cit. 335. 



Luzon (Lepanto, Bontoc, Pangasinan), Merrill 4-461, B. S. 30055 Ramos. 

 On dry open grassy slopes at low and medium altitudes. Pantropic. 



ANDROPOGON FESTUCOIDES Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1828) 340; Kunth 

 Enum. 1 (1833) 500; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (1857) 489; F.-Vill. 

 Novis. App. (1882) 316; Merr. Sp. Blancoanae (1918) 61. 

 Andropogon anias Llanos Frag. PI. Filip. (1851) 29; F.-Vill. & Naves 

 in Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 3, 4 1 (1880) 20; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1882) 

 316. 

 Andropogon muricatus Retz. var. aristatus Biise in De Vr*iese PL Ind. 



Bat. Orient. (1856) 104. 

 Andropogon nigritanus Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. (1849) 573. 

 Andropogon squarrosus Linn. f. var. nigritanus Hack, in DC. Monog. 



Phan. 6 (1889) 544. 

 Vetiveria zizanioides Stapf var. nigritana Camus in Bull. Mus. Hist. 

 Nat. Paris 25 (1919) 674. 

 Luzon (Pampanga, Nueva Ecija), Merrill 4231, 4240, Phil. PL 389, B. S. 

 2.22.38 Santos. In open level lands, rice-paddy banks, etc., at low altitudes. 

 Tropical Africa, Java. 



Local name: Anias (Pamp.). 



The roots are entirely odorless in striking contrast to those of An- 

 dropogan zizanioides Urban to which it has been erroneously reduced. 



ANDROPOGON FILIPENDULUS Hochst. in Flora 29 (1846) 115, var. 

 LACHNATHERUS (Benth.) Hack, in DC. Monog. Phan. 6 (1889) 

 635, Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 267; Merr. op. cit. 339. 

 Andropogon lachnatherus Benth. Fl. Austral. 7 (1878) 534. 



