844 
(5050 Merrill) March, 1906. Mindoko, Baco River (203 McGregor) April, 
1905; ( 1795 Merrill) April, 1903. Negros, Gimagaan River (1667 Whitford) 
May, 1906. Mindanao, Province of Misaniis, Mataline Falls (3922 Hutchinson) 
March, 1906. 
British India and Malaya to New Guinea. 
Tribe V. PANICE.3:. 
Sjiikelets one or sometimes two liowered, tlie second flower stamimxte, 
very rarely perfect, in the axil of the third gdume, arranged in spikes, 
racemes, or panicles, the axis usually continuous. Flowering glume and 
palea of the perfect flower always firmer in texture than the empty 
glumes, unawned, the empty glumes rarely awned. 
(25) PASPALUM Linn. 
Spikelcts 1-flowered, usually olituse, in two to four ranked racemes or 
spikes, these two to many, digitate or disposed in panicles, seldom solitary. 
Flowering glume and palea cartilaginous; empty glumes two. 
Species about 175 in the tropical and subtropical regions of both hemispheres 
but most abundant in America; four in the Philippines. 
1. Spikes geminate at the ends of the culms. 
2. Leaves broad, flat ; spikelets suborbicuiar, 3 mm. long, the 
hyaline margins of the second glume ciliate (3) P. conjugatum 
2. Leaves distichous, narrow ; spikelets ovate-obloiig, about 3 
mm. long, glabrous (4) P. distichum 
1. Spikes alternate on an elongated rhachis. 
2. Spikelets mostly 4-ranked (2) P. longifoUum 
2. Spikelets 2-ranked (1) P. scrohiculatum 
(1) Paspalum scrobiculatum Linn. ]\Iant. (1767) 29; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 3 
(1859) 431; Kunth Eiium. 1 (1833) 53; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 310; Vidal 
Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 156; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 286; Ceron Cat. 
PI. Herb. (1892) 179; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 7 (1897) 10; Rendle in Forbes 
& Hemsl. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 36 (1904) 320; Mez in Perk. Frag. FI. 
Philip. (1904) 141; Merr. Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 26. Paspalum 
cartilagineum Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1830) 216; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 432; 
F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 310; Sebum, luul Lauterb. FI. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. 
Siidsee (1901) 175; Sci'ihn. Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 10 (1899) 49. Paspalum 
villosum Blanco FI. Filip, ed. 1 (1837) 40; cd. 2 (1845) 28; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 
53 ? non Thunb. Paspalum sumatrense Roth; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 310. 
Paspalum kora Willd. Sp. PI. 1 (1797) 332; Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1830) 216. 
Paspalum tJiunhergii Kunth ex Steud. Syn. 1 (1855) 28; Mez in Perk. Frag. 
FI. Philip. (1904) 141. 
Luzon, Manila (8 Merrill) April, 1902; (6 Scribner) June, 1902: Province 
of Benguet (4793 Merrill) November, 1905; (5759 Elmer) March, 1904; (4844 
Curran) August, 1906: District of Lepanto, Balili (4629 Merrill) November, 
1905: Province of Nueva Ecija, Carranglang (235 Merrill) May, 1902: Prov- 
ince of Bataan, (3140 iferrill) October, 1903. Cuijon (479 Merrill) December, 
1902. Balabac (469 Mangubai) March, 1906. Basilan (48 DeVore <G Hoover) 
April, 1903. Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley {Clemens) December, 1905. 
Tropical and warm countries of the world. 
Schumann and Lauterbach retain Paspalum cartilagineum Presl, as a distinct 
