40 Agnes Chase: Panicearum genera ac species aliter disposita. III. 
character of the inflorescence, a point which seems to have escaped 
Grisebach's notice. — A delieate species, flowering culms filiform, 15 to 
25 cm high, nodes 2 or 3, at least the lower geniculate, the upper inter- 
node and peduncle elongated, sheaths slightly inflated, 1 to 3 cm long, 
racemes erect or ascending 2 to 3,5 cm long, the staminate slightly 
shorter than the pistillate; pistillate spikelets glabrous, 2,5 mm long; 
glume and sterile lemma about one-fourth shorter than the glabrous 
fruit; staminate spikelets 1,5 mm long, glabrous. Sterile stems spreading 
or prostrate, the distichous leaves approximate, the sheaths, at least the 
upper overlapping, ciliate on the margin and at the summit, blades firm, 
8 to 18 mm long, 3 to 5 mm wide, subacute, sparsely hairy along the 
midnerve, pale green above, dark purplish beneath, undulate on the 
margins. Known from a single collection, Wright 3448. In addition to 
the type, specimens of this number have been examined in the Gray 
herbarium and in the Sauvalle herbarium in the Estacion Agronomica, 
Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba. The specimen in the Gray herbarium 
has five flowering culms from the single small tuft. On the sheet 
is a slip in Wright's hand „Gram. near Olyra * * not Digitaria, nov. 
Panicum.“ 
30. Mniochloa strephioides (Griseb.) A. Chase, |. c., p. 186. — Olyra 
strephioides Griseb. 1866, Cat. Pl. Cub. 229. „Cuba occ. (Wrlight] 3435).* 
Type in the Grisebach herbarium at Göttingen. Grisebach’s description 
is inaccurate in regard to the inflorescence, which he describes as 
staminate and pistillate mixed, terminal pistillate. The staminate and 
pistillate racemes are distinct in the type as in the other specimens 
seen, but the two lie so closely together that they might be mistaken 
for one unless examined carefully. — Flowering culms slender 4 to 
7 cm high, equaling or shorter than the sterile stems, the inflorescence 
short-exserted, the racemes erect, 1 to 3 cm long, about equal; pistillate 
spikelets 3,5 mm long, the glume and sterile lemma glabrous, exceeding 
the fruit which is entirely clothed with white silky hairs; staminate 
` spikelets scarcely one-half as long as the pistillate, glabrous. The sterile 
stems less delicate than in the preceding, blades firmer, pale green, 
triangular ovate, minutely pubescent on both surfaces, ciliate on the 
margins. Besides the type, specimens of Wright 3435 have been exa- 
mined in the National Herbarium, Gray herbarium, herbarium of Columbia 
University, and in the Sauvalle herbarium, This species was collected 
by Caldwell and Baker (no. 7011) at San Diego de los Banos, Cuba, 
the only known collection since Wright's. 
