NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 
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about 1,800 m, ascending the new cone to an altitude of about 2,000 m, Merrill, 
April 12, 1910. 
This species is manifestly allied to Misccmthus sinensis Andr., differing in 
its densely tufted habit of growth, very much smaller size, narrower leaves, rather 
lax, depauperate panicle, solitary or at most paired panicle-branches, and larger 
spikelets. 
SPOROBOLUS R. Br. 
Sporobolus virginicus (L.) Kunth Rev. Gram. (1829) 67; Enum. 1 (1833) 
210; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 7 (1897) 247. 
A gros tis virginica Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 63. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Bur. Sci. 1881 Ramos, April, 1909; also collected 
by Loher at Navotas, Province of Rizal, nos. 1185, 1186 in Herb. Kew; Manila, 
Merrill, June, 1910. 
Not previously reported from the Philippines ; widely distributed in tem- 
perate and tropical parts of the world. 
CYPERACEiE. 
CLADIUM Schrad. 
V Cladium phil ippinense sp. nov. § Eucladium. 
Dense eaespitosum, eulmis gracilibus, teretibus, usque ad 2 m altis, 2 
ad 3 mm diametro; foliis radicalibus nullis, caulinis 2 vel 3, brevibus, 
verticaliter compressis, 1 ad 5 cm longis, vix 3 mm latis; inflorescentiis 
laxis, 10 ad 15 cm longis, “zigzag”; spiculis brunueis, circiter 2 mm 
longis; fructibus ellipsoideis, teretibus, admodum nitidis, rugosis, apice 
truncatis. 
A densly caespitose plant from creeping rhizomes, the culms rush-like, 
often nearly 2 m high, sometimes shorter, terete, glabrous, 2 to 3 mm 
in diameter, their bases covered with several short, imbricated bracts, 
leafless except for the 2 or 3 culm leaves which are much reduced or 
sometimes represented only by sheaths, or sometimes 5 cm long, always 
less than 3 mm wide, vertically compressed, glabrous. Panicles 10 to 
15 cm long, interrupted, thyrsoid, lax, both the primary and secondary 
rachises strongly zigzag, on the ultimate branches each group of two or 
three spikelets subtended by an ovate, keeled, brown, prominently acu- 
minate bract about 3 mm long,' the basal portion broad, 7- to 9-nerved, 
the spikelets sessile or shortly pedicelled, crowded. Spikelets brown, 
glabrous, 2 to 2.5 mm long, each bearing a single perfect flower, the glumes 
few, about four, ovate to oblong-ovate, somewhat acuminate, keeled, 2 
mm long. Nutlet ellipsoid, terete, straw-colored; Somewhat shining, 
about 1.8 mm long, wrinlded when dry, the base somewhat acute, the 
apex minutely puberulent, truncate or rounded ; style filiform, elongated, 
the arms three. 
Mindoko, southwest of Lake Naujan, altitude about 120 m, For. Bur. 61 2 If. 
Merritt, April, 1907 (type). Luzon, Province of Zambales, along streams near 
Candelaria, Bur. Sci. Jf129 Ramos, December, 1907. Palawan, Mount .Victoria, 
on rocks at base of waterfall, Bur. Sci. 118 Foxworthy, March, 1906, altitude 
