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The type specimen, consists of a culm with four internodes, the base and summit 
wanting, bearing two flowering branches. No other collection of the species is known. 
It appears to be related to Panicum venesuelae Hack., from which it differs in the 
smaller panicle and in the smaller and pubescent instead of bristly hispid spikelets. 
74. Panicum millegrana Poir. 
Panicum millegrana Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 4: 278. 1816; Contr. U. S. Nat. 
Herb. 15 : 135. 1910. 
Panicum patentissimum Desv.; Poir.in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 4: 283.1816. ‘Cette 
plante créit 4 Saint-Dominique & & la Nouvelle-Espagne.”” The type from the her- 
barium of Desvaux in the Paris Herbarium is a fragmentary specimen consisting of a 
panicle with immature glabrous spikelets together with afew broken leaves, 
DISTRIBUTION, 
Damp woods and shady banks, Mexico and the West Indies to Paraguay. The type 
specimen from tropical America, probably from Cayenne. 
Veracruz: Cordoba, Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 73. Jalapa, Hitcheock 6605, Holway 
3083. Mirador, Liebmann 275. 
Oaxaca: Without locality, Galeotit 5728. 
Cuiapas: Santa Rosa, HHeyde & 
Lux 3927. 
GuATEMALA: Cubilquitz, Tiirck- 
heim 8783, 8784. Cobdn, Tiirck- 
heim 657. Guatemala City, 
LTitchcock 9056. 
Costa Rica: El General, Pittier 
10615. 
Panama: El Boquete, Hitchcock 
8299. 
F1G, 100.—Distribution of P, millegrana. Cusa: Ilerradura, Hitchcock 180, 
Tracy 9098. La Catalina, 
Wright 3455. Pinar del Rio, Wright 3855. Sumidero, Shafer 13562. Sierra 
de Cabra, Britton & Gager 7201. 
TrinipDaD: Pitch Lake, Hitchcock 10087, Port of Spain, Hitchcock 9979. 
VENEZUELA: Tovar, Fendler 1641. 
CoLomsBraA: Santa Marta, Smith 168, 2146. 
75. Panicum glutinosum Swariz. 
Panicum glutinosum Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Oce, 24. 1788; Contr. U. 8. Nat. 
Herb. 15: 138. 1910. 
DISTRIBUTION. 
Mountain woods, throughout. tropi- 
cal America. The type specimen 
from Jamaica. 
Veracruz: Mirador, Liebmann 
428, Ross 701.  Orizaba, 
Bourgeau 3192, Botteri. 
Jalapa, Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 
74. Zacuapdn, Purpus 2156, 
2903. 
Fig, 101,—Distribution of P. glutinoswm, 
