476 GRAMINEA. 
Tribe I. PANICEZ. 
Panicee, Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. pp. 1075 et 1077. 
This tribe includes thirty genera, several of which are very numerous in species, and 
most of which are restricted to tropical and subtropical regions. The genus Reimaria 
consists of four species, inhabiting Tropical South America, Cuba, and Florida, so that 
it may be expected to occur within our limits. 
I. PASPALUM. 
Paspalum, Linn. Gen. Plant. n. 75; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 1097. 
Upwards of 300 species have been published by various authors; but Bentham and 
Hooker estimate the real number to be barely 160. They are generally dispersed in 
tropical and subtropical regions, though by far the greatest concentration of species is 
in America. The late General Munro partially elaborated this genus and named the 
collection in the Kew Herbarium. 
1. Paspalum abbreviatum, Trin. ex Schl. in Linnea, xxvi. p. 383 (absque 
descriptione) ; Fournier, Mex. Pl. Enum., Gram. p. 10. 
Mexico, without locality (Schiede). 
2. Paspalum acuminatum, Raddi, Agrostogr. Bras. p. 25; Doll in Mart. Fi. 
Bras. 11. 2, p. 97; Kunth, Enum. Pl. i. p. 49. 
GuateMALA, Costa Grande, between San Antonio and San Bernardino (Bernoulli, 
588).—Brazit. Hb. Kew. - 
3. Paspalum affine, Steud. Gram., p. 24*; Fournier, Mex. Pl. Enum., Gram. 
p. 12. 
South Mexico, Oaxaca (ex Steudel). 
Fournier suggests that this may be P. tenellum, Willd. 
4, Paspalum appendiculatum, Presl, Relig. Henk. i. p. 211; Steud. Gram. 
p. 33. 
Panama (Henke). 
5. Paspalum compressum, Nees, Agrostol. Bras. p. 23; Fournier, Mex. Pl. 
Enum., Gram. p. 7; Seem. Bot. Voy. ‘ Herald,’ p. 223; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 041. 
Paspalum tristachyon, Lam. Ill. i. p. 176. 
Paspalum platycaule, Poir. in Lam. Encyel. v. p. 34; H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. i. p- 90; Trin. 
Sp. Gram. Ic. et Descr. i. t. 118. 
SoutH Mzxico, Hacienda de Jovo (Liebmann, 202), Orizaba (Botteri, 111), Vera Cruz 
* This grass, like many other grasses described by Steudel, who had no special knowledge of the Order, may 
belong to some previously described species; but we have nothing beyond his imperfect descriptions to guide 
us, therefore we can only cite his names for what they are worth. He neither records collectors’ names nor 
numbers, nor states where the specimens were upon which he founded his species. Dr. Fournier examined 
Steudel’s own herbarium, but he remarks (‘ Plantas Mexicanas, Gramines, Introduction, p. iii) that he was 
Just as much in the dark as before on many points. 
