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This form has usually four spikes, with the spikelets in several rows 
on each partial inflorescence. It is unquestionably referable to Roxburgh’s 
species as currently interpreted. India to Malaya, but not previously re- 
ported from China. 
OPLISMENUS Beauvois 
OPLISMENUS UNDULATIFOLIUS (Ard.) Beauv. Agrost. (1812) 54. 
Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 108U1, 
August 24, 1917, on ledges along streams in deep ravines, altitude about 
900 meters. 
This species, which extends from southern Europe to Japan southward 
to tropical Africa and Australia, has not previously been reported from 
southern China. 
GARNOTIA Brongniart 
GARNOTIA STRICTA Brongn. Bot. Duperry’s Voy. (1829) 133, t. 21. 
Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 10313, 
11080, October, 1916, and August, 1917, on ledges in torrent beds, altitude 
about 1,000 meters. 
The specimens come well within the range of variation of this widely 
distributed species as interpreted by Hooker f. FI. Brit. Ind. 7 (1897) 243. 
It has not previously been reported from China. 
GARNOTIA BARBULATA (Nees) comb. nov. 
Miquelia barbulata Nees in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 19 (1843) Suppl. 
1 :178. 
Garnotia patula Munro ex Benth. FI. Hongk. (1861) 416. 
Berghausia patula Munro in Proc. Amer. Aca*d. 4 (1860) 262. 
Kwangtung Province, Teng Woo Mountain, Levine & Groff 68, November 
18, 1916. 
This species, for which the oldest specific name is here adopted, is known 
only from southern China. 
GARNOTIA Cl LI AT A sp. nov. 
Herba annua, 25 ad 40 cm alta, vaginis et foliis et spiculis 
perspicue longe molliter ciliatis ; culmis erectis e basi decumben- 
tis, 1 ad 1.5 mm diametro, glabris, nodis leviter ciliato-barbatis ; 
foliis flaccidis, anguste lanceolatis, usque ad 11 cm longis et 
9 mm latis, planis, acuminatis, utrinque parce sed molliter et 
perspicue ciliatis; inflorescentiis usque ad 13 cm longis, ramis 
strictis (junioribus), inferioribus usque ad 6 cm longis; spiculis 
lanceolatis, acuminatis, glumis vacuis aequalibus, anguste lanceo- 
latis, tenuiter acuminatis, 3-nerviis, parce ciliatis, gluma fertilis 
obscurissime 1-nervia, 5 mm longa, apice tenuiter aristata. 
An erect, simple, annual grass, 25 to 40 cm high, the culms 
decumbent at the base and sometimes rooting at the lower nodes, 
gregarious but scarcely caespitose, the culms glabrous, 1 to 1.5 
mm in diameter, the nodes sparingly bearded with few, long, 
