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thickish blades oblong or linear, obtuse; spikes few to several, the rachis and 
glumes pale green, the florets chestnut. 
Open ground, especially in limestone svil near the coast, southern United 
States to Panama and the West Indies. Originally described from Jamuiea; 
Agrostis complanata described from garden plants grown from seed from 
Jamaica; C. septentrionalis described from Texas. 
Bermuda, Bahamas (Hog Island, New Providence, Anguilla Isles, Andros), 
Cuba, Jamaica, Santo Domingo, Porto Rico, and Trinidad. 
CHLORIS CARIBAEA Spreng. (Syst. Veg. 1: 295. 1825. C. bahiensis Steud.) 
was described from “Ins Carib.” The type specimen is labeled as collected in 
Guadeloupe by Bertero, but the locality is probably an error.’ 
2. Chloris cruciata (L.) Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 25, 1788, 
Agrostis cruciata L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 2: 893. 1759. 
Vilfa? cruciata Beauv. Ess. Agrost. 16, 181. 1812. 
Rabdochloa cruciata Beauv. Ess. Agrost, 84, 158, 176. 1812. 
Chloris humboldtiana Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum, 1: 205, 1854. 
Chloris brevigluma Wright, Anal. Acad. Cienc. Habana 8: 200, 1871. 
A low, densely tufted perennial, with delicate, sometimes elongate and 
straggling culms, branching from the lower nodes, filiform blades, and usually 
2 or 3 at length widely spreading spikes 2 to 3 cm, long, the small spikelets with 
long delicate awns. 
Stony slopes, Cuba and Jamaica. Originally described from Jamaica. 
Chloris humboldtiana and C. brevigluma -were described from Cuba, Wright 
1548 in part being the type of the latter. 
3. Chloris sagraeana A. Rich. in Sagra, Hist. Cuba 11: 315, 1850, 
Chloris eleusinoides Griseb. Fl]. Brit. W. Ind. 589. 1864. 
Chloris eleusinoides var. vestita Greenm. in Combs, Trans. Acad. St. Louis 
7: ATT. 1897. 
Perennial; culms ascending, 20 to 60 cm. long, branching from the lower 
nodes; sheaths keeled, blades folded; spikes mostly 4 or 5, stiffly horizontally 
spreading at maturity, the imbricate but not crowded spikelets with delicate 
awns about 12 mm. long. Foliage occasionally puberulent. 
Open ground and grassy banks, West Indies. Originally described from 
Cuba. Richard states that his plant agrees perfectly with Sloane’s plate 68, 
fig. 3, which is the same as C. eleusinoides.’ Chloris eleusinoides was described 
from Jamaica and Antigua. The variety vestita is based on a puberulent 
specimen from Cienfuegas, Cuba. 
Bahamas (New Providence, Inagua), Cuba, Jamaica, Santo Domingo, St. 
Croix, Antigua, and Guadeloupe. 
4, Chloris leptantha Hitche. in Urban, Symb, Antill. 7: 166. 1912. 
A tufted ascending leafy perennial, commonly 30 to 50 cm. tall, the sheaths 
and numerous short usually flat blades pubescent; spikes slender, the spikelets 
rather distant. 
Open dry ground Jamaica (vicinity of Kingston and eastward), Santo 
Domingo (Las Salinas) and northern South America. Originally described 
from the island of Bonaire. 
5. Chloris radiata (L.) Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 26. 1788. 
Agrostis radiata L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 2: 879. 1759. 
1Compare Urban, Symb. Antill. 4: 103. 1903. 
2 For a discussion of Sloane’s plate and the type of Agrostis radiata L. see 
Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 120. 1908. 
