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but with bvoadei' leaves. If I have correctly identified Biise’s species it is rep- 
resented in onr herbarium by Nos. 15109 and 27781 (3 Herb. Koorders, and 
also by specimens from plants cultivated in the Botanical Garden at Buitenzorg. 
(20) Panicum sarmentosum Boxb. FI. Ind. 1 (1820) .808; Kunth Enum. 1 
(18.33) 120; Stend. 8yn. 1 (1855) 98; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 312; Vidal 
Bhan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 157; Bev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1880) 287; Hook. f. 
FI. Brit. Ind. 7 (1897) 54; Bendle in Forbes & Henisl. .Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 36 
(1904) 333; Mez in Perk. Frag. FI. Philip. (1904) 143; Merr. in Philip. Journ. 
iSci. 1 (1900) Suppl. 27. Panicum vacillans Steud. Syn. 1 (1855) 75. P. cx- 
tcusum Steud. 1. e. 72, teste Vidal. P. incomplum Trim Diss. 2: 200; Icon. 20. 
t. 232; Kunth Enum. 1 (1833) 112; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 451. 
Philippine, s (079 Cuming). Luzon, Province of Bataan, Lamao (1019 
Whitford) December, 1904; Dinalupijan (1608 Merrill) January, 1903; Prov- 
ince of Zambales, Subic (HaUier) Decemlier, 1903. Mindoro, Baco Biver (1008 
Merrill) January, 1903; (120 McGregor) April, 1905. Culion (512 Merrill) 
December, 1902. Palawan, Point iSeparation (825 Merrill) February, 1903. 
Balabac (452 Blangvhai) March, 1900. 
India to southern China and Malaya. 
(27) Panicum caudiglume Hack, in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitseh. 51 (1901) 428; 
Govt. Lab. Publ. 25 (1905) 80; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sei. 1 (1906) Suppl. 27. 
Panicum n. sp. ? aflinis Panico tracliyrhach idi Benth., Mez in Perk. Frag. FI. 
Philip. (1904) 144. 
Palawan ( Paragua) , San Antonio Bay (832 Merrill) February, 1903. Luzon, 
Province of Bataan, Lamao Biver (3307 Merrill) October, 1903. 
Java. 
(28) Panicum mindanaense Merrill, sp. nov. 
Glabnmi; ciilmis creetis, 30-40 cm. altis, ramosis, gracilibus, basi sub- 
geniculatis, dense caespitosis; vaginis qiiam inteniodiis brevioribus; 
laminis lanceolatis, 2-5 cm. longis, jilits minus 3 mm. latis, aenminatis; 
])anienlis diffnsis, ramosis, 10-15 cm. longis, ramis sparsis, remotis, fili- 
forniibiis; spiculis 2.5-3 mm. longis, aenminatis, pedicellatis, ovato- 
lanceolatis; gluma prima ovato-lanceolata, spiculae aeqnante, acuminata. 
A glabrous, caespitose grass 30 to 45 cm. bigh, the culms erect or 
ascending from somewhat geniculate liases, slender, branched; nodes 
gialirons. Sheaths lax, glalirous, shorter than the internodes. Panicles 
diffuse, 10 to 15 cm. long, the liranches few, remote, slender, solitary or 
opposite, spreading or erect-spreading, angular, scabrous, the lower ones 
5 to 8 cm. long. Spikelets 2.5 to 3 mm. long, acuminate, pedicellate, 
ovate-lanceolate, puiqilish; first glume equaling the spikelet, 5-nerved, 
ovate-lanceolate; second and third glumes subequal, 5-nerved, acute. 
Flowering glume elliptical-ovate, glabrous, shining, 1.2 mm. long. 
Mindanao, Lake Laiiao, Camp Keithley (99 Clemens) January, February, 
1900. 
A .species related to Panicum trachyrhachis Benth., and P. caudiglume Hack., 
differing from both in its smaller sjiikelets and shorter leaves and from the 
latter in its glabrous leaves, and like those two species recognizable by its very 
long, acuminate first glume. 
