DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 891 



Spreading than in the typical Trichoon phragmiles the common reed ; branches of 

 lanicle filiform, pedicels capillary, quite smooth; spikelets when fully expanded 

 ibout 12 mm. broad across the glumes, 3 or more flowered, fan-shaped, the first 

 lower often staminate, the others perfect; rachilla articulated between the flowering 

 ;lumes, long-pilose, the two lower glumes empty; the third glume empty or sub- 

 ending a staminate flower; flowering glumes glabrous, long-acuminate, much 

 ixceeding the short palets; stamens 3; styles 2, distinct, short; stigmas plumose; 

 ;lumes spreading in fruit, exposing the long silky hairs of the rachilla; grain free, 

 oosely inclosed in the glume and palet. This plant is quite variable, and it is possible 

 hat it is only a variety of Trichoon phragmiles. Hooker could find no important 

 lifferences between herbarium specimens of the two. In both forms dwarf or slender 

 tales occur, with slender leaves and greatly reduced panicles. « The species is spread 

 rom Japan and India through Malaysia and the Philippines, and occurs in the 

 )aroline Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, New Caledonia, and other islands of the 

 'acific, but not in Fiji, Samoa, nor Hawaii. 

 In Guam the stems are split and woven into coarse matting for covering the sides 

 f houses (PI. XX), for partitions, and for ceilings, often covered with whitewash or 

 lud, and serving as laths for plastering. It is from this species that the durmamats 

 f Bengal are made. Padre Blanco first described it in the Philippines under the 

 ame Arundo iecia. In Japan the young shoots are eaten cooked like asparagus or 

 amboo sprouts. In China they are taken out of their sheaths and preserved by 

 rying with a coating of salt on them, to be stored for cooking purposes. 6 This reed 

 j said to have proved poisonous to cattle in India, but in Guam the young shoots are 

 sed as fodder and are not considered harmful. In China the banks, marshes, and 

 lioals of the Yangtze River are covered with great beds of it, the people cutting 

 own the reeds on the subsidence of the floods. They form the fuel for a large por- 

 on of the people in certain districts, who also use them for building hovels and 

 laking mats and hurdles, and eat the young shoots as food. « 

 References: 



Trichoon roxhurghii (Kunth). 



Arundo roxhurghii Kunth, Rev. Gram. 1: 79. 1829. 



Phragmiles roxhurghii (Kunth) Steud. Norn. ed. 2. 3: 324. 1841. 

 The earliest post-Linneean use of the name Phragmites appears to be by Adanson 

 a 1763, but for a different genus from that to which it has been applied by modern 

 uthors. Trinius proposed the name for the present genus in 1820, but it is ante- 

 ated by Trichoon, published by Roth in 1798. The common reed, Trichoon phrag- 

 lites {Arundo phragmites of Linnaeus), is widely known under the name Phragmites 

 ommunis Trin. 



?ripliasia aurantiola Lour. Same as Tnphasia tnfoliata. 



Mphasia trifoliata. Orange-berry. 



Family Rutaceae. 

 Local na-vies.— Lemoncito, Limon de Ohma(Guam); Limoncitos (Philippines; 



Lime myrtle (West Indies) ; Limeberry (East Indies). 



A labrous spiny shrub, with evergreen branches and leaves, small fragrant white 



I s and orange-red berries about the size of a cherry. Leaves alternate, sessile, 



' f Tate- leaflets obtuse, thick and soft, crenulate, coriaceous, almost nerveless, the 



• 1 one shortly petioled, 2 to 4 cm. long, ovate, with a cuneate base and rounded 



t b d tip' lateral ones smaller, more rounded, oblique; flowers very shortly 



^° ° jgj a'xiHary, solitary or in 3-flowered cymes; calyx 3-lobed; petals 3, free, 



'^Vi"' ate linear-oblong; stamens 6, inserted around a fleshy disk; ovary ovoid, 



a Hooker, Flora British India, vol. 7, pp. 304, 305, 1897. 



(, <5ee Useful Plants of Japan, Agricultural Society of Japan, p. 29, 1895. 



cSinith, Materia medica, etc., of China, p. 171, 1871. 



