234 CONTRIBUTIONS KROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



45. PHAEUS L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 2: 1269. 1759. 



Culms creeping at base 3. P. parvifolius. 



Culms not creeping at base. 



Fruit pubescent only at the tip, slightly exceeding the 

 glume : 2. P. latifolius. 



Fruit pubescent all over, 2 to 3 times as long as the glume 1. P. glaber. 



1. Pharus glaber H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 1: 196. 1816. 



Dense woods, Valestina, September 27, Wright 733; Managuas, Baker HC 455; 

 El Guama, Palmer & Riley 123, 260; San Antonio, Hitchcock in 1906; Yumury Moun- 

 tains, Eugel 871 in Gray Herbarium; Cienfuegos, Combs 363 in Gray Herbarium. 



The Wright specimens in the Grisebach Herbarium are no. 268 of 1865, no. 733 

 from eastern Cuba, 1856-57, and no. 733 from eastern Cuba, 1859. The following 

 are in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden: Santiago de Cuba, Taylor 

 40, 275, 284, 479; Matanzas, Britton & Wilson 66, 227; Madruga, Britton 6c Shafer 

 789; Eggers 4708. 



2. Pharus latifolius L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 2: 1269. 1759. 



Santiago de Cuba, Taylor 217, Hamilton 211, both in Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 



3. Pharus parvifolius Nash, Bull. Torr. Club 35: 301. 1908. 

 Jaguey, Eggers 4939, Maxon 4155, in Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 



This species, which also occurs in Haiti, differs in having stems with creeping 

 bases. 



46. LUZIOLA Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1: 636. 1791.a 



1. Luziola bahiensis (Steud.) 



Caryochloa bahiensis Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. 1:5. 1854. 



Luziola alabamensis Chapm. Fl. So. U. S. 584. 1860. 



Luziola longivalvula Doell in Mart. Fl. Bras. 2 2 : 17. 1871. 



In rivulets, the panicles just above the surface of the water, pinales, Pinar del 

 Rio, December, Wright 3813. 



In the National Herbarium are: Duplicate type of L. alabamensis Chapm., col- 

 lected by J. F. Beaumont, Brooklyn, Alabama, in 1859; duplicate type of Cary- 

 ochloa bahiensis Steud., and also of Luziola longivalvula Doell (Bahia, Salzmann; 

 Brazil, Prov. Minas Geraes, Henschen 1376, cited by Doell). 



47. ORYZA L. Sp. PI. 333. 1753. 



1. Oryza sativa L. Sp. PI. 333. 1753. 

 Wright 3838. 

 In the National Herbarium is another specimen numbered 191. 



48. HOMALOCENCHRUS Mieg. Ad. Eelvet. Phys.-Math. 4: 307. 1760. 



Spikelets 3 mm. long 1. //. hcxandrus. 



Spikelets 2 mm. long 2. If. monandrus. 



1. Homalocenchrus hexandrus (Sw.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 777. 1891. 



Leersia hexandra Sw. Prod. 21. 1788. 



Wright 3434, 3837; llcrradura, Hitchcock in 1906. 



The Grisebach specimen is from eastern Cuba, 1860, numbered "118=3434." 

 In Sauvalle's Flora Cubana this number is misprinted 3484. Wright's 3434 in the 

 Gray Herbarium is from "San Mateo, in water 3 feet deep." 



Juss. Gen. PI. 33. 1789, without citation of species. 



