387 
BkOiMUS luzoniensis Presl Rel. Ilaeiik. 1 (1830) 202. TriUcwn luzoniensis 
Kiuitli Eimm. 1 (1833) 440; Miq. FI. Iiul. Bat. 3 (1859) 402; F.-Vill. Nov. 
App. (1883) 323. 
“Hab. in Liizonia” Presl. 
Probably of American and not Philippine origin, erroneously localized. 
(66) BRACHYPODIUM Beauv. 
Spikelets mauy-flowered, narrow, cylindrical, in simple racemes, very 
short-pedicellate. Flowering ginmes usually awned from the point, 
7 to 9-nerved. Palea with stift'-fringed keels. 
Specie.s about 0 in Europe and teinpei'ate Asia and in the mountains of 
tropical Asia, and Africa; one in Luzon. 
(1) Brachypodium silvaticum Beauv. Agrost. (1812) 146, subspec. luzon- 
iense Hack, in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1900) Siippl. 269. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Mount Tonglon (4830 Merrill) November, 1905; 
Pauai (4710 Merrill) November, 1905: District of Lepanto, Mount Data (4530 
Merrill) November, 1905. 
Endemic, i. e., the subspecies, the species widely distributed in Europe, 
northern Asia and the mountains of India, China, and Japan. 
(2) Brachypodium silvaticum Beauv. var. asperum Hack, in Philip. Journ. 
Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 209. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Pauai to Baguio (4698 Merrill) November, 1905. 
Endemic. 
Tribe XII. H0E.DE.ffi. 
Spikelets one to many-flowered, sessile on teeth or notches of the 
rhachis, forming a spike. 
(67) MONERMA Beauv. 
Spikes cylindrical, sulndate, articulated. Spikelets deeply immersed 
in the rhachis, awnless, the terminal with two, the otliers with one empty 
glume, these coriaceous. Flownring glumes membranous. 
Species three, southern Europe and Africa to tropical Asia, Malaya, Australia 
and Polynesia; one in the Philippines. A maritime grass. 
(1) Monerma repens (Forst.) Beauv. Agrost. (1812) 117; Hack, in Govt. 
Lab. Publ. 35 (1905) 81. RotthoelUa repens Forst. f. Prodr. (1797) 9. Lcp- 
turus repens R. Br. Prodi'. (1810) 207; Kunth Enuni. 1 (1833) 463; Steud. 
Syn. 1 (1855) 357; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 7 (1897) 365. 
Mindoro, Puerto Galera (3331 Merrill) October, 1905. Culion (606 Merrill) 
December, 1902. Cajoagan (5245 Merrill) October, 1906. Palmas (5354 
Merrill) October, 1906. 
Ceylon to Malaya, Polynesia, and Australia. 
(68) TRITICUM Linn. 
Spikes with a terminal spikelet, the rhachis articulate, the lowest 1 
to 4 spikelets smaller than the others, awnless, sterile. Fertile spikelets 
intiated or ventricose, 2 to 5-tiowered. 
Species about 15, Europe, temperate Asia and America; 1, wheat, rarely 
cultivated in the Philippines. 
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