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(72) DINOCHLOA Buse. 
Spikelets very small, l-flowered, iu distaiit small fascicles or scattered 
along tlie branches of a very large panicle. Em^^ty glumes 3 or 2, 
obtuse. Flowering glume one, similar to the empty glumes. A scan- 
dent shrub. 
Species two, Malaj'an Peninsula and Archipelago; one in the Philippines. 
(1) Dinochloa scandens (Bliinie) 0. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PL (1891) 773. 
Banilnisa scandens Blume ex Nees in Flora 7 (1824) 291. Nastus tjangkorreh 
SchnUes Syst. Veg. 7 - (1830) 1358; Knnth Ennni. *1 (1833) 430; Steud. Syn. 1 
(1855) 333. Dinochloa tjankorreh Biise in Miq. PL Jungh. (1855) 388; Miq. 
FI. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 415; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 324; Mnnro in Trans. 
Linn. Soe. 26 (1868) 153. pi. 5; Vidal Cat. PL Prov. Manila (1880) 48; Sinopsis 
Atlas (1883) t. [)(>. f. C.; Phan. Cnining. Philip. (1885) 159; Rev. PL Vase. 
Filip. (1880) 294; Ceron Cat. PL Herb. (1892) 186; Pilger in Perk. Frag. FL 
Pliilip. (1904) 150; Alerr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) SnppL 29; Gamble 
in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 6 (1890) 112. 
Palawan, Puerto Princesa (270 Bennejos) January, 1906; Casuarina Point 
(621 Foxworthy) March, 1906. Balabac (447 Manguhat) March, 1906. Ba- 
siLAN (2977, 3980, 3981 Hutchinson) February, 1900. Mindoro, Bongahong 
River (3701, 4000 Merritt) March, 1900. IMindanao, Davao (1239 Copeland) 
April, 1904: Province of Surigao (319 Bolster) April, 1900. 
Malaya. 
Var. angustifolia (Hackel) D. tjankorreh var. angiistifolia Hack, in herb. 
Foliis parvis, 4 ad 17 cm. longis, 0.5 ad 1.5 cm. latis. 
Philippines (037 Cuming). Luzon, Province of Bataan, Laraao (2102 
Borden) November, 1904: Province of Laguna, Mount Maquiling (5145 Merrill) 
March, 1906. Mindoro, Pola (2224 Merrill) May, 1903. Mindanao, District of 
Davao, Todaya (1239 Copeland) April, 1904. Basilan (Rallier) January, 1904. 
Distinguished from the type by its very much smaller leaves, but intermediate 
forms occur. Munro gives leaf measurements that include this narrow-leave 1 
form in the species, but the measurements given by Gamble do not include it. 
DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES OF BAMBUSEiE. 
Beesha rheedii Kuntli; Vidal Cat. PL Prov. Manila (1880) 48; F.-Vill. 
Nov. App. (1883) 324. Above records for this species from the l^hilippines 
never verified, probably erroneous identifications=iI/e/oca}M!a. hambusoides Trin., 
a species of British India and one not to be expected in tlie Philippines. 
Cephalostachyum CAPiTATUii Muiiro. Credited to the Philippines by F.- 
Villar, Nov. App. (1883) 324. A species of British India, not to be expected 
in the Philippines. 
Dendrocalamus giganteus Munro. Credited to the l^hilippines by F.-Villar 
Nov. App. (1883) 324, who states that he saw cultivated specimens. Possibly 
cultivated in the Philippines, but if so, rarely. The “giant bamboo” of British 
India. 
Dendrocalamus latifokus Munro. Credited to the Philippines by F.-Villar 
Nov. App. (1883) 324, who .states that he saw cultivated specimens. A species 
of Formosa, southern China, and Burma, F.-Villar’s record from the Philippines 
not verified. The figure given by Vidal Sinopsis Atlas (1883) t. 96. f. B. was 
not drawn from Philippine material, but was copied from the plate in Munro’s 
monograph, teste Vidal 1. c. p. 42. 
Oxytenanthera sp. Ceron Cat. PL Herb. (1892) 185. An undetermined 
species of which I have seen no specimens. 
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