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valle's Flora Cubana as "P. swartzianum Flugg?," but it is noi that species as here 

 understood. The specimen in the Gray Herbarium is less fragmentary. The blades 

 are long and narrow, 30 or 40 cm. long and less than 1 mm. wide; terminal spike 

 single; spikelets glabrous, 1.5 mm. long. A pari of Wright 3444 in the Gray Her- 

 barium appears to be this specie. 



20. AXONOPUS Beauv. Agrost. 12. L812. 



1. Axonopus compressus (Sw.j Beauv. Agrost. 12. J 812. 



Milium compressum ^w. Prod. 24. 1788. 



Pas palum compression Rasp. Ann. Sci. Nat. I. 5:301. L825. 



Wet places in roads and elsewhere Zarabanda, May 21, Wright 3849, Wright 

 Wright 763 in Gray Herbarium; Isle of Pirn-. Curtiss 306, 511; Habana, Curti 606, 

 Leon 298; Herradura, Hitchcock in L906, Tracy 9092; San Antonio, Baker IK' 2946, 

 Hitchcock in 1906; Santiago de las Vegas, Hitchcockva 1906; Managua, Baker & Wilson 

 314 in Herb. X. Y. Bot. Gard.: Matanzas, Britton <( Wilson lot in Herb. N. V. 

 Bot. Gard. 



In the Grisebach Herbarium are two specimens of this species, one of L865 labeled, 

 "Roadside, Hanabana, May 18," and bearing the secondary number 168, and one 

 of no. 765, 1860-6-1. The Sauvalle specimen of Wright 3850 has two labels, with 

 localities El Salado and Retire. This number has narrower blades and larger spike- 

 lets, about 3 mm. long. This may be Paspalum tristachyon ham.." the type of which 

 I have not seen. The sheet of Wright 3849 in the Gray Herbarium bears also a 

 SDecimen of Syntherisma digitata. 



21. LEPTOCORYPHIUM Nees, Agrost, Bras. 83. 1829. 



1. Leptocoryphium lanatum (H. B. K.) Nees, Agrost. Bras. 83. IS29. 



Paspalum lanatum II. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 1: 94. 1816. 



Wright 3429; Isle of Pines, Palmer & Riley 110. 972, Curtiss 393; I.a Magdalena, 

 Baker HC 4555; Herradura, Hitchcock in 1906, Tracy 9048, 9071. The following are 

 in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden: Santa Clara, Britton & Wilson 

 335; Pinar del Rio, Shafer 481; Cedro, Underwood & Earle 1451, L459. 



Grisebach's specimen, from western Cuba in 1863, is numbered "919=3429." 

 Wright's 3429 in the Gray Herbarium is labeled, "Wet savannas, Candelaria, June 

 3," and "Savannas near Pinar del Rio, Dec-. 11." 



22. ERIOCHLOA H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 1: 94. pi. 30. 31. 1816. 



Blades filiform I E. filifolia. 



Blades flat. 



Fruit tipped with a slender awn 1 mm. long; blades 7 to 1"> mm. 

 wide 2. E. punctata. 



Fruit merely apiculate; blades 2 to 3 mm. wide :;. /;. ramosa. 



1. Eriochloa filifolia sp. nov. 



Plant eespitose; culms numerous, very slender, almost capillary, glabrous, 10 

 to 20 cm. high, erect or more or less geniculate below; leaves glabrous, Made- very 

 narrow, convolute-setaceous, the lower about 10 cm. long, the upper shorter, the 

 uppermost 1 to 2 cm.: spikes mostly 2, erect. I to 2 cm. long, one terminal, the other 

 5 to 10 mm. below; radii- capillary, minutely pubescent or scabrous, pubescenl 

 at base; spikelets I to 8, 3 mm. long, secund in a single row. the pedicels -lender, 

 about 1 mm. long, the cup or joint dark-colored: glume and sterile lemma aboul 



Tabl. Encycl. 1: 176. 1791. 



