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MERRILL. 
CHLORIS Sw. 
Chloris mearnsii sp. liov. 
Caespitosa, perennis, usque ad 40 cm alia; culmis graeilibus, genicula- 
4 is ; spicis 3, digitatis, graeilibus, longe exsertis; foliis linearibus, acumi- 
natis, 5 ad 8 cm longis; spiculis imbricatis, atropurpureis, 3.5 mm 
longis, arista 1 cm lcmga. 
A tufted perennial 40 cm high or less. Culms very slender, glabrous, 
geniculate below, the inflorescence long-exserted. Leaves 5 to 8 cm long, 
2 to 4 mm wide, minutely scabrid, the sheaths longer than the inter- 
nodes, the ligule consisting of a few long white hairs. Spikes 3, digitate, 
slender, 5 to 7 cm long, the spikelets imbricate, dark-purple. Empty 
glumes hyaline, 1-nerved, scabrid on the nerves, the first 1.2 nun long, 
linear, the second 3 mm long, linear-lanceolate, mucronate-acuminate. 
Flowering glume lanceolate, dark-purple, 3.5 mm long, scabrid, the tip 
with a slender straight awn 1 cm long. Palea equaling the glume, 
scabrid. Seed narrowly oblong, 2.5 mm long. Callus pilose. Rachilla 
produced 1 to 1.2 mm and bearing a minute, 0.5 mm long, glume, the 
awn slender, scabrid, 3 to 4 mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Ilocos Norte, Bur. Rci. 2291/ M earns! January, 1907. 
A species allied to Chloris cynodontoides Bal., fide Hackel in lit., but that 
species has blunt leaves, while in the present species they are long-acuminate* 
. CYPERACE2E. 
CAREX 1 Ann. 
Carex cryptostachys Brongn. in Duperr. Voy. Bot. (1829) 152; Clarke in 
Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 6 (1894) 714. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Bur. Sci. 1760 Ramos, January, 1907 : Province of 
Sorsogon, Sorsogon, Elmer 7 306, November, 1905. 
Malay Peninsula to southern China, south to New Guinea; new to the Philip- 
pines. 
The former number cited was compared by me with authentic material in Herb. 
Kew, and the identification has also 1 been confirmed by Herr G. Kukenthal. 
Elmer’s specimen is manifestly the same. 
AKACE2E. 
ALOCASI A Neck. 
Alocasia heterophylla (Presl) comb. nov. 
Caladium heterophyllum Presl Pel. Haenk. 1 (1827) 148. 
Alocasia warburgii Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 25 (1898) 25; Merr. in Philip. Journ. 
Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 33. 
Presl’s type, preserved in the Prague herbarium, is identical with the type of 
Alocasia warburgii, direct comparison having been made by me in the Berlin 
herbarium, Dr. Engler concurring in the identity of the two species. Presl’s 
name being the older is lieve retained. 
