PLANTS COLLECTED IN BAHAMAS, ETC. 149 



Nassau; Eleuthera; Fortune Is. ; Inagua; Kingston; 

 Porus; Bog Walk. 



Leptochloa, Beauv. Agrost. 1812. 



L. mucronata, (Michx.) Kunth, Kevis. Gram. 1829. 

 Meusine, Michx. Fl. 1803. 

 Lucea. 

 L. virgata, (L.) Beauv. Agrost. 1812. Cynosurus, L. 

 Syst. x. 1759. 



Bog Walk; Port Antonio; Lucea; Grand Cayman. 

 Var. gracilis, (HBK.) Griseb. Fl. B. W. I. 1864. 

 Chloris, HBK. Nov. Gen. i. 1815. 

 Eleuthera. 



Gynerium, Humb. & Bonpl. PI. iEquin. ii. 1809. 

 G. sagittatum, (Aubl. ) Beauv. Agrost. 1812. Saccharum, 

 Aublet, PI. Guiana, 1775. 

 Port Moranl . 



. Eragrostis, Beauv. Agrost. 1812. 

 E. Bahamensis, n. sp. Plate 14. 

 Inagua. 

 Caespitose, prostrate-spreading, or when in more shaded situations, 

 erect; culms 12 to 18 cm. long, stiff and wiry, smooth, striate, glaucous 

 above ; leaves linear setaceous, closely involute, lower 1 to 2 cm., upper 

 4 to 5 cm. long, bearing a tuft of woolly hair at the ligule ; spikelets 

 scattered along the upper half of the culm, sessile, single or clustered 2 

 to 3 together, forming a simple and very strict, interrupted spike, oblong, 

 usually falcate, 25-flowered or less ; empty glumes ovate about £ as long 

 as flowering glume, lower 1-nerved, upper slightly longer and 3-nerved; 

 flowering glumes 3-nerved, strongly compressed, smooth and glaucous ; 

 palet a little shorter than the flowering glume, scabrous on the two keels. 



Growing on rocky soil. 



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E. Bahiensis, ( Schrad. ) Steud. Glum. 1855. Poa, Schrad. 

 in Schult. Mant. ii. 1824. 

 Grand Cayman. 

 E. ciliaris, (L.) Link, Hort. Berol. i. 1821. Poa, L. 

 Syst. x. 1759. 



Nassau; Eleuthera; Cat Is.; Inagua; Port Morant; 

 Porus; Grand Cayman. 



