371 
373. Orysa gramilala Necs et Am. in Wight. Cat. No. 2354; Hook. f. B'l. Brit. 
Iml. 7 (1897) 93; Merr. in Govt. Lai). Puhl. 6 (1904) 7. 
Luzon, Province of Nueva Viseaya, Quiangaii (IKi Merrill) -June, 1902. Pala- 
wan, Puerto Princesa (343 Berinejos) January, 1900. 
Himalayan region to Java and Celebes. 
(41) LEERSIA 8\v. 
Distingnislied from Orijza by the aborted empty glumes and awnless 
flowering glume. Stamens one to three or in our species six. 
Sjieeies 5, tropical and temperate regions of the World; 1 in the Philippines. 
(1) Leersia hexandra Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. (1788) 21; Kunth Enum. 1 
(1833) 94; Llanos Frag. PI. Filip. (1851) 26; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 318; 
Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 157; Pev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1880) 288; 
Ceron Cat. PI. Herb. (1892) 181; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 7 (1897) 94; Reudle 
in Forbes & HemsI. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 3 6 (1904) 345; Pilger in Perk. 
Frag. FI. Philip. (1904) 145; Merr. in Philip. .Journ. Sci. 1 (1900) Suppl. 28. 
L. glaherrima Trin.; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 307; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 
318. Henmlocenchriis liexandrus 0. Ktze. Rev. Gen. PI. (1891) 777. Leersia 
luzonensis Presl, Rel. Haenk. 1 (1830) 207. 
Philippines (529 Cuming). Luzon, Manila (41, 381 Merrill) May, August, 
1902: Province of Benguet, Baguio (4337 Merrill) November, 1905. Province of 
Bataan, Lamao {Whitl'ord) September, 1905. Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp 
Keithley (394 Clements) March, 1906. 
The most commonly cultivated forage grass in the Philippines. Sp.-Fil., 
Zaodte. T., Barit. 
Tropical Africa, Asia, Malaya, Australia, and America. 
Tribe VII. PHALAEIDE^. 
All the spikelets fertile, one-flowered with one to two staminate flowers 
inserted below the apparently terminal one. Empty glumes four, un- 
equal, the third and fourth occasionally very small, or one of them rudi- 
mentary. Flowering glume and palea alike, laterally compressed, awn- 
less, nerves one or wanting. 
(42) MICROLAENA R. Br. 
First and second glumes very short, the third and fourth longer than 
the flowering glume, all keeled. Inflorescence paniculate. 
Species 5 eouiiued to Austvalia and New Zealand with the exception of the 
following, which extends to Luzon. 
(1) Microlaena stipoides (Labill.) R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 210; Benth. 
FI. Austral. 7 (1878) 552; Kunth Enum. 1 (1833) 16; Hack, in Philip. Journ. 
Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 269. Ehrharta stipoides Labill. PI. Nov. Hoik 1 (1804) 
91. t. 118. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Mount Tonglong (4831 Merrill) November, 1905; 
Pauai to Baguio (4696 Merrill) November, 1905: District of Lepanto, Mount 
Data (4543 Merrill) November, 1905. 
Australia and New Zealand. 
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