DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
Eleusine corocana Gaei'tn. Fruct. 1 (1788) 8. i. 1; Hook. f. FI. Brit. liul. 7 
(1897) 294; J\-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 320. 
Widely cultivated in British India and reported from the Philippines Ijy 
F.-Villar. F.-Villar’s record not verified. 
Eleusine verticellata Roxb. ; Hook. f. 1. c. 295; F.-Vill. 1. c. 320. 
Reported from the Philippines by F.-Villar, hut his record was probably based 
on a form of Eleusine indica Gaertn. Tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia. 
Eleusine polydactyla Steud. Syn. 1 (1855) 21 1; Mi(j. FI. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 
386; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 320. 
Based on No. 824 Cuming from the Philippines, according to Steudel. Index 
Kewensis, however, gives the locality as tropical Africa. 
(56) DACTYLOCTENIUM Willd. 
Empty glumes strongly mueronate-pointed ; rhacliis produced as a 
point beyond the upper spikelets, otherwise much as the })receeding genus. 
Species 1 with several vaiieties, cosmopolitan in the tropical and warmer 
regions of the World. 
(1) Dactyloctenium aegyptiacum (Linn.) Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. (1809) 
1029; Kunth Enum. 1 (1833) 261; Mi(p FI. Hid. Bat. 3 (1859) 384; Rendle in 
Forbes & Hemsl. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 3 6 (1904) 406; Pilger in Perk. Frag. FI. 
Philip. (1904) 147. Eleusine aegyptiaca Desf. FI. Atl. 1 (1798-1800) 85; 
F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 320; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 159; Rev. 
PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 293; Flook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 7 (1897) 295. Digilaria 
lanosa Llanos Frag. PI. Filip. (1851) 28. 
Luzon, Manila (63 Merrill) May, 1902; (36 McGregor) October, 1904; Prov- 
ince of Cavite, Cavite (157 Foxworthy) July, 1905: Province of Bataan, Dina- 
lupijan (1569 Merrill) .January, 1903: Province of Principe, Baler (1127, 1136 
Merrill) September, 1902: Province of Lhiion, Bauang (5677 Elmer) February, 
1904: Province of Rizal, IMorong (1395 Eamos) August, 1906. Palawan, Puerto 
Princesa (4174, 4188 Curran) May, 1906. Mindanao, Lake Lanao (Clemens) 
February, 1906; District of Davao (567 Copeland) March, 1904; (229 DeVore 
cC- Hoover) April, 1903. 
Widely distributed in the Tropics of the Old World, introduced into the New. 
(57) LEPTOCHLOA Beauv. 
Inlioreseenee a panicle formed of numerous slender spikes. Spikelets 
small, two to many-flowered, rarely one-flowered, compressed, awnless. 
Sjiecies about 12, warmer parts of both hemispheres, 2 in the Phlippines. 
1. Culms rather stout; spikelets 4 to 6-flowered (1) L. chinetisis 
1. Culms slender ; spikelets 2 to 3-flowered (2) L. filiformis 
(1) Leptochloa chinensis (Linn.) Nees in Syll. Ratisb. 1 (1824) 4; Steud. 
Syn. 1 (1855) 209; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 389; F.-Vill. Nov. App. ( 1883) 
320; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 159; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 293; 
Hook. f. FI. Brit. Huh 7 (1897) 299; Rendle in Forbes & Hemsl. .Tourn. Linn. 
iSoe. Bot. 36 (1904) 407; Pilger in Perk. Frag. FI. Philip. (1904) 147. L. tetra- 
qiietra Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1830) 288; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 389; 
F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 320, ex descr. Poa chinensis Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 09. 
