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R. C. McGregor 502, Cabras Island, October, 1911. 
A species apparently belonging in the same group with Ischaemum 
murinum Forster, but apparently undescribed. Its rather stout, fulvous- 
villous spikes and its very long awns are characteristic. 
ANDROPOGON Linnaeus 
ANDROPOGON ACICULATUS Retz. Obs. 5 (1789) 22; Safford 183. 
McGregor 421, Mrs. Clemens s. n., G. E. S. 212. 
India to China southward to Australia and Polynesia. 
ANDROPOGON CONTORTUS Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 1045. 
McGregor 413, hills back of Piti. 
Widely distributed in the warmer parts of both hemispheres. 
ANDROPOGON HALEPENSIS (Linn.) Brot. FI. Lusit. 1 (1804) 89, var. 
PROPINQUUS (Kunth) Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 
336. 
Holcus halepensis Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 1047. 
Andropogon propinquus Kunth Enum. 1 (1833) 502. 
McGregor 491, from cultivated specimens. 
The species in both hemispheres, the variety from Ceylon to the Moluccas. 
ANDROPOGON SORGHUM (Linn.) Brot. FI. Lusit. 1 (1804) 88. 
Holcus sorghum Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 1047. 
McGregor 513, from cultivated specimens. 
Cultivated in all warm countries. 
ANDROPOGON CITRATUS DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. (1813) 78. 
Cymbopogon citratus Stapf in Kew Bull. (1906) 322, 357, cum lamina. 
Andropogon nardus Safford in Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 9 (1905) 183, 
non Linn. 
I have seen no Guam specimens of this grass, but from Safford’s notes 
there is no doubt but that the plant determined as Andropogon nardus is 
A. citratus DC. It is widely cultivated in the Indo-Malayan region, 
PANICEAE 
PASPALUM Linnaeus 
PASPALUM SCROBiCULATUM Linn. Mant. 1 (1767) 29; Safford 347. 
Paspalum kora Willd.; Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1830) 216. 
Paspalum cartilagineum Presl 1. c. 
McGregor 519, Thompson 12. 
Widely distributed in the warmer parts of both hemispheres. 
PASPALUM CONJUGATUM Berg, in Act. Helvet. 7 (1772) 129, t. 8. 
G. E. S. 294. 
A native of tropical America, now widely distributed in both hemispheres. 
(In addition to the above there is also one collection of the American 
Paspalum dilatatum Poir., McGregor 516, from cultivated specimens, re- 
cently introduced) . 
