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MERRILL. 
GRAMINEAE. 
MICROCHLOA R. Br. 
Microchloa indica (Linn, f.) comb. nov. 
Nardus indica Linn. f. Suppl. (1781) 105. 
Rottboellia setacea Roxb. PI. Coromandel 2 (1798) 18, t. 132. 
Microchloa setacea R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 208; Hook. f. FL Brit. Ind. 
7 (1897) 283; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1883) 319. 
Luzon, Bontoc Subprovince, Bauco, Vanoverhergh 764, August, 1910, 
altitude about 1,300 m: Rizal Province, Novaliches, Loher 7179, June, 1904. 
A species widely distributed in the Tropics, previously reported from 
the Philippines by Fernandez-Villar, but his record not before verified. The 
earliest valid specific name is here adopted. 
CYPERACEAE. 
CLADIUM P. Br. 
Cladium cyperoides sp. nov. 
Planta tenuis, perennis, plus minusve pilosa, foliis omnibus 
radicalibus, tenuibus, subrigidis, 4 ad 8 cm longis, circiter 1 mm 
latis; inflorescentiis longe et tenuiter pedunculatis, umbellatis, 
simplicibus vel compositis more Fimbristylis diphyllae; spiculis 
compressis, 5 ad 8 cm longis, oblongis, glumis puberulis, om- 
nibus vel inferioribus exceptis distichis. 
A slender, tufted, erect, perennial plant, the leaves and culms 
slightly ciliate-pubescent with white hairs, the leaves slender, all 
basal, flat or involute, rather rigid, 4 to 8 cm long, usually less 
than 1 mm wide, acute, the sheaths inflated, purple, enclosing 
the base of the stems. Inflorescence long-exserted, the slender 
leafless peduncle 10 to 30 cm long, deeply sulcate, about 0.5 mm 
thick. Inflorescence a simple or compound umbel, similar to 
that of Fimbristylis diphylla and allied species, rather dense, or 
lax, the spikelets fascicled or solitary, some sessile, others pedi- 
celled, 5 to 20 in each inflorescence, the inflorescence subtended 
by 1 to several narrow, rigid, 0.5 to 2 cm long, leaf-like bracts 
which are inflated below and pubescent; rays few, up to 5 cm 
in length, usually much shoi’ter. Spikelets brown, oblong, com- 
pressed, 5 to 8 mm long. Glumes all distichous, or the lower 
one or two spiral, puberulent, acute or acuminate; first glume 
empty, broadly ovate, 2.5 to 3 mm long, apiculate-acuminate, the 
apiculus 0.6 mm long; second glume 4 mm long, about 2 mm 
wide, acuminate, somewhat keeled, apiculate, 1-nerved, contain- 
ing a perfect flower. Anthers 3, 1.8 mm long; style thickened 
at the base, jointed with the nut, about 3 mm long, with three 
2 mm long arms; hypogynous bristles none. Nut white, obovoid, 
3-angled, minutely verrucose, about 1 mm long; style deciduous. 
