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DIMERIA ORNiTHOPGDA Trin. Fund. Agrost. (1820) 167, t. U. 
G. E. S. 2U7, on banks of streams. 
India to Japan southward to Australia; the Guam specimens belong to 
the variety tenera (Trin.) Hack. 
MISCANTHUS Andersson 
MISCANTHUS FLORIDULUS (Labill.) Warb. ex K. Schum. & Lauterb. 
FI. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. Siidsee (1901) 166. 
Saccharum floridulum Labill. Sert. Austr. Galed. (1824) 13, t. 18. 
Miscanthus japonicus Hack, in DC. Monog. Phan. 6 (1889) 107 p. p. 
Xiphagrostis floridula Coville ex Safford in Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 9 
(1905) 400, pi. 69. 
McGregor 391, G. E. S. 356, locally known as nete or neti. 
Formosa to Australia and Polynesia. 
In the original description of the genus Miscanthus four of the five 
species are true members of the genus, as generally interpreted. The first 
species given by Andersson happens to be a representative of the genus 
Erianthus, for which reason Coville would refer the genus Miscanthus to 
Erianthus as a synonym, and has proposed the new generic name Xipha- 
grostis for Miscanthus of authors, not of Andersson. If an arbitrary rule 
be adopted by which the first species cited must be adopted as the generic 
type, then Coville is correct, but I prefer to interpret the genus by the 
majority of the species, which in this case is clearly four to one. I have 
accordingly retained Miscanthus in the sense that Andersson manifestly 
intended it. 
SACCHARUM Linnaeus 
SACCHARUM OFFiCINARUM Linn. Sp. PI. (1763) 54; Safford 366. 
G. E. S. H5, the common sugar cane, locally known as tupo or tupu. 
Cultivated in all tropical countries, probably a native of south-eastern 
Asia. 
POLLINI A Trinius 
POLLIN1A GLABRATA (Brongn.) Trin. in Bull. Acad. Petersb. 1 (1836) 
70. 
Eulalia glo,hrata Brongn. Bot. Duperry Voy. (1829) 93, t. 19. 
Thompson 2i. 
Otherwise known from New Caledonia and the Society Islands. 
ISCHAEMUM Linnaeus 
ISCHAEMUM RUGOSUM Salisb. Ic. (1791) 1, t. 1. 
G. E. S. 213. 
India to Malaya. 
ISCHAEMUM DlGiTATUM Brongn. Bot. Duperry Voy. (1829) 70, t. 13, 
var. POLYSTACHYUM (Presl) Hack, in DC. Monog. Phan. 6 (1889) 
233. 
Ischaemum polystachyum Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1830) 328. 
Andropogon mariannae Steud. Synopsis (1854) 382. 
The type of the variety was collected in Guam by Haenke. The species 
is rather common in the Philippines and extends to the Moluccas and 
New Hannover. 
