84 ENUMERATION OF PHILIPPINE PLANTS 



1922 



Panicum dactylon Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 58. 



Cynodon linearis Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. (1809) 90; Presl Rel. 



Haenk. 1 (1830) 290; Nees in Hook. Journ. Bot. Kew Miscel. 2 



(1850) 98. 

 Panicum glumaepatulum Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. 1 (1854) 41; F.-Vill. 



Noyis. App. (1882) 312 (glumaepetalum) . 

 Digitaria glumaepatula Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (1857) 439. 

 Cynodon rufescens Llanos Frag. PI. Filip. (1851) 31; F.-Vill. & 



Naves in Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 3, 4 1 (1880) 21, non ? Lagasca. 

 Capriola dactylon O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PL (1891) 764. 



Throughout the Philippines, in open grasslands, fallow rice paddies, 

 waste places, at low and medium altitudes; common. Pantropic. 



Local names: Balbalut (Bon.); galud-galud (Ilk.); grama (Sp.) ; kola- 

 tai (Tag.); palot-galot (Ilk.). 



56. CHLORIS Swartz 



CHLORIS BARBATA (Linn.) Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 1 (1797) 200; Miq. Fl. 



Ind. Bat. 3 (1857) 387; Nees in Hook. Journ. Bot. Kew Miscel. 



2 (1850) 102; F.-Vill. Novis, App. (1882) 320; Vidal Phan. Cuming. 



Philip. (1885) 159, Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 292; Hook. f. Fl. 



Brit. Ind. 7 (1897) 292; Pilger in Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 



147; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. .1 (1906) Suppl. 377, Fl. Manila 



(1912) 103, Sp. Blancoanae (1918) 72. 

 Andropogon barbatum Linn. Mant. 2 (1771) 302. 

 Chloris longifolia Steud. Syn. PI. Glum.- 1 (1854) 205; Miq. Fl. Ind. 



Bat. 3 (1857) 388; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1882) 320. 

 Chloris inflata Llanos Frag. PI. Filip. (1851) 31; F.-Vill. & Naves 



in Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 3, 4 1 (1880) 22, non Link. 



A common weed in and about towns in many parts of Luzon, Mindoro, 

 Negros, and Palawan, and probably in other islands. A pantropic weed 

 of American origin. 



Local names: Bamako (Ilk.); korokorosan (Tag.). 



CHLORIS INCOMPLETA Roth Nov. Sp. PI. (1821) 60; Merr. in Philip. 

 Journ. Sci. 10 (1915) Bot. 288. 

 Luzon (Zambales), Palawan, Mindanao (Zamboanga), Merrill 9275, 

 9616, 8279, Phil. PI. 1308, Gates 8145. In dry open sandy soil at low al- 

 titudes, sometimes along the seashore. India to Formosa and Malaya. 



CHLORIS MEARNSII Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 220. 



Luzon (Ilocos Norte), B. S. 7606, 27201 Ramos, 229k Mearns. In dry 

 open places at low altitudes; perhaps but a depauperate form of C. incom- 

 pleta Roth. Endemic. 



CHLORIS TENER (Presl) Scribn. in Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 10 (1899) 41, 

 t. 40. 

 Cynodon tener Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1830) 291; Kunth Enum. 1 

 (1833) 260; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (1857) 383; F.-Vill. Novis. App. 

 (1882) 320. 

 Luzon (Sorsogon), Negros, {Presl), B. S. 9951 Robinson, as Cynodon. 

 In open places at low altitudes. Hainan, Indo-China. 



