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4. Eriochloa subglabra (Nash) Hitche. Contr. U. 8S. Nat. Herb, 12: 208. 1909. 
Monachne subglabra Nash, Bull. Torrey Club 30: 874. 1903. 
Eriochloa punctata var. subglabra Urban, Symb. Antill, 4: 85. 1903. 
A stoloniferous perennial with erect flowering culms 1 to 2 meters tall, 
bearded nodes, flat spreading blades, and terminal panicles of several! to many 
loosely ascending or spreading branches, the spikelets usually in pairs. 
Moist ground, swamps, and ditches, West Indies and Brazil. Originally de- 
scribed from Porto Rico, the type being Heller 380, collected at Martin Pefia. 
In Porto Rico this species is confused with Paré grass, which it resembles in 
habit, and the name “ malojilla” is applied to both. The two species are not 
infrequently found growing together. 
Jamaica (Savanna-la-Mar, Hitchcock 9859), Porto Rico, Trinidad, and Brazil. 
32. BRACHIARIA (Trin.) Griseb. 
Inflorescence of few to several rather thick racemes; spikelets solitary, sub- 
sessile, the back of the fruit turned from the rachis; first glume well developed. 
1. Brachiaria platyphylla (Griseb.) Nash in Small, Fl. Southeast. U. 8. 81. 
1903. 
Paspalum platyphyllum Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cub. 2380. 1866. 
Glabrous; culms ascending from a creeping base, rather freely branching; 
blades flat, 5 to 10 cm. long, about 1 cm. wide; inflorescence included at base, 
of 1 to 4 rather distant finally spreading racemes with a flat rachis and sessile 
ovoid spikelets appearing to be in a single row. 
Sandy soil, Province of Pinar del Rfo, Cuba, whence originally described. 
In the Catalogue of the Grasses of Cuba’ this species is referred to B. planta- 
ginea. Subsequent collections of mature specimens show the Cuba species to 
be distinct from B. plantaginea of the continent. 
BRACHIARIA ERUCAEFORMIS (J. E. Smith) Griseb. in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 4: 469. 
1833. Panicum erucaeforme J. E. Smith in Sibth. Fl. Graec. Prodr. 1: 40. 1806. 
There is in the U. S. National Herbarium a specimen of this species from 
Barbados (Bot. Sta. Herb. 448). It may have been cultivated at the Botanic 
Station. In the Krug and Urban Herbarium there is a specimen from the same 
island collected by Eggers (no. 7095). 
33. AXONOPUS Beauv, 
Inflorescence of 2 to many slender racemes, aggregated at the summit of the 
culm; spikelets depressed-biconvex, oblong-elliptic, solitary, subsessile, the back 
of the fruit turned from the rachis; first glume wanting; sterile palea obsolete. 
Rachis bearing conspicuous stiff spreading golden yellow hairs. (Section 
CABRERA. ) 
Plants annual; rachis over 1 mm. wide, extending beyond the spikelets. 
1. A. appendiculatus. 
Plants perennial; rachis slender, about 0.5 mm. wide, not extending beyond 
the spikelets___________-___-_------_-------------- 2. A. aureus, 
Rachis not bearing stiff hairs. (AxoNopuUs proper.) 
Plants annual, the delicate racemes 2 or 3 3. A. capillaris, 
Plants perennial. 
Plants stoloniferous, the racemes 2 to 5__----__---__ 4. A. compressus. 
Plants erect, without stolons. 
*Contr, U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 212. 1909. 
