NOTES ON PHILIPPINE GRAMINE^, II. 
By E. Hackel. 
(Oruz, Austria.) 
The ])resent article, as was the ease Avith the preceding }>aper pTib- 
lished under this title/ has been compiled froyi notes and identifications 
srd)initted by Dr. Ilackel, tlie material having been supplied to him in 
part for identification and in part for verification of my own determina- 
tions. In the present short paper, including the species and varieties 
described as new, 29 species and varieties and 4 genera are added to the 
Philippine flora, Avith one exception, all from a collection made in less 
than a month’s time in the highlands of Benguet and Lepanto, ISTorthern 
Luzon. The very striking character of the collection, other than SAich 
more or less characteristic northern types as Pollinia n-uda Trin., P. iia- 
herbis var. Willdenoiviana forma monostachya Hack., Arthraxon ciliaris 
Beauv., Aurrieties, A. microphyllus Hochst., Panicuni pedicelJare Hack., 
P. villosum Lam., Calamagrostis arundinacea Both, var. nipponiva 
Hack., and Brachy podium silvaticum Beauv., is the presence of a series of 
distinct southern or Australian types, such as Chionacline biaurita Hack'., 
Pollinia irritans Benth., Andropogon Bailey i P. MuelL, A. fragilis E. Br., 
var. luzoniensis Hack., A. filipendidus PTochst., var. laclwatliorus Hack., 
Iscliaemuni arundinaceum P. MuelL, var. radicans ITack., and Microlaeiut 
stipoides E. Br. — (E. D. M.) 
CHIONACHNE R. Br. 
Chionachne biaurita Hack. sp. nov. 
Annua. Culmus erectus 4-5 dm. altus robustus pliirinodis, ex omnibus 
nodis ramos floriferos saepius binos elongatos ramulosos sulifastigiatos 
procreans, semiteres, canalicnlatus, glaberrimus. Vaginae internodiis 
niiilto breviores, laxae, eompressae, pilis rigidis basi grosse tuberculatis 
hirsutae v. solis tuberculis scabrae. Ligula series ciliorum breviuni. 
Laminae c basi angustata lineari-lanceolatae acutae, 12-24 cm. longae, ad 
10 mm. latae, flaccidulae, virides, praeter margines superne scabras glaber- 
rimae vel pilis paucis adspersae, tenuinerves. Spicae in apice ramorum 
PuMications of the Bureau of Government Luhoratories, Manila (1906), 
No. 35, 79-82. 
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