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14. OPLISMENUS Beauv. 
1. O. burmannii (R. Br.) Beauv.; Hook. f. 1. c. 68. 
(6045 Elmer) ; (3290 Merrill) ; (1021 Whitford) . Along trails in forests and 
thickets below 200 in., and on bluffs near the seashore, widely distributed in the 
Philippines. Tropical Asia to China and Malaya. 
2. O. undulatifolius (Arduin.) Beauv.; Hook. f. 1. c. 66. 
(2547 Borden) ; (6987 Elmer). Forested slopes at about 150 m. Central and 
southern Europe and the Tropics generally. 
3. O. undulatifolius var. imbecillis (R. Br.) Hack. Orthopogon imbecillis 
R. Br. ; Oplisvienus minus Merr. Govt. Lab. Publ. 17 (1904) 9. 
(3203 Merrill).. On exposed ridges at 1,200 ni., mountains of the Philippines 
to Malaya and Australia. 
15. SETARIA Beauv. 
1. S. flava Kunth, Rev. Gram. 1 (1835) 46. 
(1936 Borden). Generally distributed in the Philippines and other tropical 
countries, treated by most authors as a synonym of Setaria glauca, but apparently 
distinct. 
16. THU AREA Pers. 
1. T. sarmentosa Pers.; Hook. f. 1. c. 91. 
[Merrill). Common on the sandy seashore, widely distributed in the Philip- 
pines. Tropical Asia to Madagascar, Malaya, Australia, and Pohmesia. 
17. SPINIFEX Linn. 
1. S. squarrosus Linn.; Hook. f. 1. c. 03. 
(Whitford). On the sandy seashore, widely distributed in the Philippines. 
Tropical shores of Asia and Malaya. 
18. ORYZA Linn. 
1. O. sativa Linn.; Hook. f. 1. c. 92. 
Somewhat cultivated near Lamao, generallj' cultivated in tropical and sub- 
tropieaPregions. Rice. 
19. LEERSIA Sw. 
1. L. hexandra Sw. ; Hook. f. 1. c. 94. 
(Whitford) . In low wet lands below 100 m. widely distributed in the Philip- 
pines. Tropics generally. 
20. GARNOTIA Brongu. 
1. G. stricta Biongn.; Hook. f. 1. c. 243. 
(6989 Elmer); (1146 Whitford). On exposed ridges at 1,200 m. British 
India to the Sandwich Islands. 
21. CYNODON Pers. 
1. C. dactylon (Linn.) Pers.; Hook. f. 1. c. 288. 
(Merrill). In open grass lands and waste places below 100 m., widely distrib- 
uted in the Philippines. Tropical and subtropical regions generallj^ 
2. C. arcuatus Presl. Rel. Haenk. 1 (1830) 290; Merrill, Govt. Lab. Publ. 17 
(1904) 9. 
(3171 Merrill). In open grass lands. Endemic. 
