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Grassy hills and rocky cliffs, southern United States to Argentina. Orig- 
inally described from Brazil. 
Cuba (Province of Pinar del Rio) and Jamaica (in the Blue Mountains), 
14, Andropogon semiberbis (Nees) Kunth, Enum. Pl, 1: 496. 1833. 
Schizachyrium semiberbe Nees, Agrost. Bras. 836. 1829. 
Similar to no. 12, stouter, taller, often glaucous; blades up to 5 mm. wide; 
racemes numerous toward the summit of the culm. 
Grassy hills and savannas, Florida, through the West Indies to Brazil. 
Originally described from Brazil. 
Bahamas (New Providence), Cuba, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Porto Rico, and 
Trinidad (St. Joseph, Hitchcock 10194). 
15. Andropogon piptatherus Hack. in Mart. Fl. Bras, 2°: 293. 1883. 
Amphilophis piptatherus Nash, N. Amer. F1. 17: 127, 1912. 
A weak-stemmed branching annual with flat scabrous blades and loose fascl- 
cles of racemes with twisted bent awns about 3 cm. long. 
Moist rocky cliffs and shady banks, Mexico to Brazil; also in Jamaica and 
Santo Domingo. Originally described from Brazil. 
16. Andropogon pertusus (L.) Willd. Sp. Pl. 4: 922. 1806. SEYMOUR GRASS. 
Holcus pertusus L. Mant. Pl, 2: 301. 1771. 
An ascending branching tufted perennial with bearded nodes, pubescent 
blades, and somewhat fan-shaped panicles of several to many villous racemes 
with twisted bent awns about 2.5 em, long, 
Roadsides and open grassy places, tropics of the Old World; introduced in 
the West Indies. Originally described from India. This species is described 
by Nash* as Amphilophis ischaemum (.) Nash (Andropogon ischaemum I..), 
an Old World species with glumes not pitted. It may be that A. pertusus is 
only a form of A. ischaemum with pitted glumes, 
Jamaica, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Grenada, and Bar- 
bados. 
16a. Andropogon pertusus var. panormitanus (Parl.) Hack. in DC. Monogr. 
Phan. 6: 481. 1889. 
Andropogon panormitanus Parl. “in Diar. Congr. Venezia 1847”; F, Ital. 
1: 140. 1848. 
Differs from the species in having glabrous nodes and nearly glabrous blades. 
Roadsides and open grassy places, warmer parts of the Old World. Intro- 
duced in the West Indies. Called “sour-grass” in Tobago, Originally de- 
scribed from Sicily. This appears to be what was described by Richard? as 
Andropogon ischaemum. 
St. Croix, Antigua, St. Vincent, Barbados, Trinidad, and Tobago. 
17. Andropogon annulatus Forsk. FI. Aegypt. Arab. 173. 1775. 
Resembling A. pertusus but differing in the absence of the pit on the back 
of the glumes and in the more imbricate spikelets; nodes bearded. 
A native of the Old World, originally described from Egypt. Introduced in 
Cuba. 
18. Andropogon saccharoides Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 26. 1788. 
Andropogon saccharoides subsp. leucopogon subvar. paucirameus Hack, in DC. 
Monogr. Phan. 6: 497. 1889. 
Sorghum saccharoides Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 792. 1891. 
*N. Amer, Fl, 17: 124. 1912, *In Sagra, Hist. Cuba 11: 820. 1850, 
