132 The Philippine Journal of Science 
CYPERACEAE 
KYLLINGA Rottboell 
KYLLINGA ODORATA Vahl, var. CYLINDRICA (Nees) Kiikenth. ex Mer. 
in Journ. Str. Branch Roy. As. Soc. 76 (1917) 80. 
Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 10655, 
Levine 1395, August 16 and 25, 1917, scattered on open grassy slopes, 
altitude 1,100 meters. 
This form, which is widely distributed in the tropics of the Old World, 
has previously been reported from China only from Yunnan Province. 
ELEOCH ARIS R. Brown 
ELEOCHARIS TETRAQUETRA Nees in Wight Contrib. (1834) 113. 
Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), at Wa Shau 
T’oi, Merrill 10809, Levine 1U10, August 20, 1917, among grasses in swampy 
places, altitude about 150 meters. 
This species, which extends from India to Japan southward to tropical 
Australia, has been reported from several parts of China, but not previously 
from Kwangtung Province. 
FI M BRISTYLIS Vahl 
FI M BRISTYLIS HOOKERI AN A Boeck. in Linnaea 37 (1871) 22; Clarke 
in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 6 (1893) 641. 
Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 10750, 
August 12, 1917, on thin soil over boulders and ledges on open slopes, 
altitude about 1,100 meters. The same species is represented by Levine 
1202, from Chat Sing Kong, Honam Island, near Cbnton. 
India and Cochinchina (Pierre !) ; not previously reported from China. 
FI M BRISTYLIS ANNUA (All.) R. & S. Syst. 2 (1817) 95, var. TOMEN- 
TOSA (Vahl) Kiikenthal in herb. 
Honam Island, on the grounds of the Canton Christian College, Levine 
1185, July 25, 1917. 
This pubescent form of Fimbristylis annua- R. & S. ( F . diphylla Vahl) 
agrees with Philippine material determined by Kiikenthal as the above 
variety. 
CAR EX Linnaeus 
CAREX BAMBUSETORUM sp. nov. § Mitratae, Eumitratae. 
Species C. rhynchachaenio affinis, differt scapis longioribus, 
utriculis minoribus, glabris, acheniis multo minoribus, 2 mm 
longis. 
Rather densely tufted, the base clothed with the filiform rem- 
nants of old sheaths. Leaves plane, scabrid, numerous, 20 to 
30 cm long, 3 to 4.5 mm wide, pale, shining, tapering upward to 
the long and slenderly acuminate apex. Scapes slender, about 
13 cm long, each bearing about three pistillate spikelets and a 
terminal staminate one, the bracts slender, 12 to 22 mm long, 
sheathing in the lower 4 to 9 mm. Pistillate spikelets 1 to 1.4 
cm long, lax, 3 to 4 mm in diameter, their pedicels slender, at 
