380 
Philippines (825 Cuming). Luzon, Manila (9, 378 Merrill) April, August, 
1902: Province of Panipanga, Baeolor (01 Parker) June, 1904: Province of 
llizal, Morong (1400 Ramos) August, 1900. 
British India to Cliina, Japan, Malaya, and Australia. , 
(2) Leptochloa filiformis R. et 8. Syst. 2 (1817) 580; Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 
(1830) 288 (var. humilior) ; Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 389; Kunth Enuin. 1 
(1833) 270; P.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 320; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 7 (1897) 
298; Rendle in Forbes & Henisl. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 36 (1904) 407; LTsteri 
Beitr. Kenn. Philip. Veg. (1905) 133. 
Luzon, Province of LTnion, Bauang (5082 Elmer) February, 1904. Palawan, 
Puerto Princesa (4175 Curran) May, 1900. 
Tropical Asia, Africa, Malaya, and America. 
EXCLUDED SPECIES OF CIILORIDE.E. 
Several species of Bouteloua have been erroneoilsly credited to the Philippines 
by vai'ious authors, but the genus is exclusively American. The species errone- 
ously credited to the Philippines are as follows: 
Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx. ) Torr. ; Eutriana ciirtipendula Trin.; Miq. 
FI. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 383; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 320. 
Bouteloua barrata Lag.; Eutriana harhata. Kunth, Rev. Gram. 1 (1829) 90; 
Enum. 1 (1833) 282; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 284; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 
321. ActinocJiloa harhata R. et S. iSyst. 2 (1817) 420. 
Bouteloua tenuis Griseb. ; Chondrosium lemte Beauv. Agrost. (1812) 41; 
Kunth Enum. 1 (1833) 270; F.-Vill. Nov. Aj)p. (1883) 320. 
Bouteloua simplex Lag.; Chondrosium simplex Kunth Enum. 1 (1833) 270; 
F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 320. 
PoLYSCUiSTis PAUPERCULA Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1830) 294. t. i/l. f. 12; Kunth 
Enum. 1 (1833) 282; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 384; F.-Vill. Nov. App. ( 1883) 
321. 
“Hab. in insula Liizonia” Presl. Erroneously localized by Presl, a species of 
tropical America, not of tlie Philippines=Pc')Rorr/iffp/Ms sp. 
Tribe XI. FESTUCE^. 
Inflorescence in panicles or racemes or spike-like racemes. Spikelets 
two to many-flowered, rarely 1-flowered, nsually perfect. Empty glumes 
usually shorter than the nearest flowering-glume; floivering glumes awn- 
less or awned. 
(58) PHRAGMITES Trin. 
Spikelets loosely many-flowered, the lowest floiver staminate, the others 
usually perfect; empty and flowering glums glabrous, the rhachilla 
long-penicellate. Tall, reed-like grasses with, spreading many-flowered 
])anicles. 
Species about 3. 1 cosmopolitan, 1 in South America, and 1 in tropical Asia 
and IMalaya; 2 in the Philipjiines. 
1. Culms mostly 1.5 to 2.5 high ; panicles mostly about 30 cm. long or 
less - (1)P. vulgaris 
1. Culms frequently 5 m. high ; panicles frequently 60 cm. long, the 
branches widely spreading.. 
(2) P. Tcarka 
