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57. ELEUSINE Gaertn. Fruct. & Sem. 1: 7. pl. 1. 1788. 
1. Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn. Fruct. & Sem. 1: 8. 1788. 
Cynosurus indicus L. Sp. Pl. 72. 1753. 
Saline flats, Matanzas, July 4, Wright 744; Santiago de las Vegas, Baker HC 513, 
1139, Hitchcock in 1906; Puentes Grandes, Leon 278; Habana, Leon 294; Guanajay, 
Palmer & Riley 817; Santiago de Cuba, Millspaugh 1111; Cienfuegos, Combs 260 in 
Gray Herbarium; Isle of Pines, Curtiss in 1904 in Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 
The Grisebach specimen is no, 277 of 1865. The Sauvalle specimen also bears the 
secondary number 277. 
58. DACTYLOCTENIUM Willd. Enum. 1029. 1809. 
1. Dactyloctenium aegyptium (LL.) Richt. Pl. Eur. 1: 68. 1870. 
Cynosurus aegyptius L. Sp. Pl. 72. 1753. 
Pine woods, Nueva Filipina, Wright 3821 (misprinted 3831 in Sauvalle’s Flora 
Cubana); Habana, Leon 289, 554, Baker, HC 1795, Curtiss 636; Puentes Grandes, Leon 
273; Triscornia, Hitchcock in 1906; Cojimar, Hitchcock in 1906; Batabano, Baker HC 
3919; Cienfuegos, Combs 513 in Gray Herbarium, 
59. LEPTOCHLOA Beauv. Agrost. 71. pl. 15. f. 1. 1812. 
Spikelets 2 to 4-flowered, imbricated, on one side of the panicle branches. 
Upper glume as long as lower lemma; sheaths papillose-hispid...2. L. mucronata. 
Upper glume shorter than lower lemma; sheaths smooth........ 4. L. virgata. 
Spikelets several-flowered; inflorescence not conspicuously I-sided. 
Inflorescence a single spike............2.2...2..2.22-2-2.2.... 3. L. spicata. 
Inflorescence of several spike-like racemes..................... 1. L. fascicularis. 
1, Leptochloa fascicularis (Lam.) Gray, Man. 588. 1848. 
Festuca fascicularis Lam. Tabl. Encyecl. 1: 189. 1791. 
In tufts, ditches, Matanzas, July 6, Wright 303; Wright 3822; Wright 3812 in National 
Herbarium; Batabano, Baker HC 2762, Hitchcock in 1906. Inthe herbarium of the New 
York Botanical Garden: Matanzas, Britton & Wilson 176; Batabano, Shafer 488. 
The Grisebach specimen collected in 1865 is numbered 303. 
2. Leptochloa mucronata (Michx.) Kunth, Rev. Gram. 1: 91. 1829. 
Eleusine mucronata Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. 1: 65. 1803. 
In fields, Punta de Palma, September, Wright 740; Habana, Britton & Wilson 509, 
Hitchcock in 1906; Isle of Pines, Curtiss 508; Guanabacoa, Leon 580. 
In the National Herbarium are two Wright specimens of this, numbered 740 and 
741. The latter number is probably an error, the label having been interchanged 
with that of a specimen of L. fascicularis. In the Gray Herbarium there are two sheets 
numbered 741, of which one is L. filiformis from ‘Cultivated ground, Valestina, Nov. 
12,’’ 1865, the other 1. virgata. 
The type of Festuca filiformis Lam. ‘‘ex Amer. merid. Comm. D. Richard” upon 
which Leptochloa filiformis Beauv. is presumably based, has not been examined, and 
the description is insufficient for identification. This name may be found to apply to 
this species. 
3. Leptochloa spicata (Nees) Scribn. Proc. Acad. Phila. 1891: 304. 1891. 
Bromus spicatus Nees, Agrost. Bras. 471. 1829. 
Triscuspis simplex Griseb. Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 8: 532. 1862. 
Wright 1551. 
There are two Wright specimens in the Grisebach Herbarium, both from eastern 
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