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SCLERIA PURPUREO-VAGINATA Boeck. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 5 (1884) 

 513; C. B. Clarke in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 105. 

 Scleria sumatrensis Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 285, non Retz. 



Batan Islands, Luzon (Cagayan, Abra, Pangasinan, Nueva Vizcaya, Ba- 

 taan, Rizal, Laguna, Sorsogon), Polillo, Mindoro, Palawan, Leyte, Panay, 

 Negros, Mindanao, F. B. 1929 Borden, B. S. 31169 Ramos & Edaiio, 13932, 

 26971 Ramos, 29881 Fenix, U248 McGregor, Wenzel 1691, Elmer 16063, 

 Copeland 95. In thickets and in open places along streams at low and 

 medium altitudes; scarcely distinguishable from S. scrobiculata Nees except 

 by its winged sheaths. Ceram Laut. 



Local name: Tangilad (Tag.). 



SCLERIA SCROBICULATA Nees in Wight Contrib. (1834) 117, Nov. Act. 

 Acad. Nat. Cur. 19 (1843) Suppl. 1: 119; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 

 (1856) 342; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1882) 310; C. B. Clarke in Philip. 

 Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 106; Merr. op. cit. 1 (1906) Suppl. 81, 

 3 (1908) Bot. 399, Fl. Manila (1912) 121, Sp. Blancoanae (1918) 83. 



Scleria foveolata Llanos Frag. PI. Filip. (1851) 103; F.-Vill. & Naves 

 in Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 3, 4 1 (1880) 79, non Cav.» 



Scleria multifoliata C. B. Clarke in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 

 106, p. p., non Boeck. 



Throughout the Philippines, in thickets, open places, old clearings, etc., 

 at low and medium altitudes; usually common. Andaman Islands to the 

 Riu Kiu Islands, southward to New Guinea. 



Of two of the three specimens referred by Clarke to <S. multifoliata, 

 Boeck. I consider Topping 460 to be <S'. scrobiculata Nees and Merrill 

 4834 to be S. merrillii Palla. 



Local names: Agagidan (Bon.); aladan (Ilk.); amamgid (Ilk.); amgid 

 (Tag.); arat (Pamp., Tag.); daat (Tag.); dahat (Bik.) ; dat (Pamp., P. 

 Bis.) ; daut (Tag.) ; gaat (Iv.) ; haras (P. Bis.) ; katabad (Tag.) ; mang- 

 ked (Iv.) ; tangra (Ilk.) ; ulat (Pang., Tag.). 



SCLERIA SUMATRENSIS Retz. Obs. 5 (1789) 19, t. 2; Rolfe in Journ. 

 Bot. 23 (1885) 215; Usteri, Beitr. Ken. Philip. Veg. (1905) 132; 

 C. B. Clarke in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 106. 

 Scleria purpurascens Steud. Syn. PL Glum. 2 (1855) 169; F.-Vill. 

 Novis. App. (1882) 310. 

 Palawan, Mindanao, Basilan, B. S. 16349 Reillo, Merrill 9750, De Vore 

 & Hoover 7. In open places and in forests at low and medium altitudes. 

 India to Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. 



Local names: Balbalili (Bon.); bulalo (Sub.); pangpayung (C. Bis.). 



SCLERIA TESSELLATA Willd. Sp. PI. 4 (1805) 315, excL syn. Rumph.; 

 F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1882) 310; C. B. Clarke in Philip. Journ. 

 Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 104; Merr. Fl. Manila (1912) 120. 

 Luzon (Lepanto, Bontoc, Benguet, Pangasinan, Bulacan, Rizal), Panay, 

 B. S. 30025 Fenix, 12221 Ramos, Merrill 4370, 4617, Phil. PL 1444, Williams 

 1970. In open grasslands at low and medium altitudes, ascending to 1,500 

 m. India to Japan southward to tropical Australia. 

 Local name: Katabad (Tag.). 



