240 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



5. Chloris paraguaiensis Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. 1: 204. 1854. 

 Andropogon barbatum L. Mant. 2: 302. 1771, riot L. 1759. 



Chloris barbata Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 1: 200. 1797 (based on Andropogon barbatum 

 L. Mant.), not C. barbata Nash, Bull. Torr. Club 25: 443. 1898 (based on Andropogon 

 barbatum L. Syst.). 



Habana, Baker HC 3388, Tracy 9113, Palmer & Riley 1150; Triscornia, Tracy 9084, 

 Hitchcock in 1906, Baker HC 1864; Matanzas, Britton 491; Regla, Shafer; Vedado, 

 Baker HC 1441; Playa de Cojimar, Hitchcock in 1906; Santiago de Cuba, Millspaugh 

 1064; Mariel, Palmer & Riley 725; Herradura, Hitchcock in 1906. In the herbarium 

 of the New York Botanical Garden: Isle of Pines, Curtiss in 1904; Santiago de Cuba, 

 Underwood & Earle 101. 



6. Chloris petraea Sw. Prod. 25. 1788. 



Eustachys petraea (Sw.) Desv. Nuov. Bull. Soc. Philom. 2: 189. 1810. 



Wright 293; Wright 3817 in National Herbarium; Cojimar, Baker HC 2867, Hitchcock 

 in 1906; Habana, Liebmann 235; Isle of Pines, Palmer & Riley 969. In the herbarium 

 of the New York Botanical Garden: Matanzas, Britton & Shafer 16; Isle of Pines, 

 Curtiss in 1904. 



The specimen in the Grisebach Herbarium is numbered 293, 1865. The number 

 3719, listed in Sauvalle's Flora Oubana under this species, is probably an error. Doell 

 changes the name of C. petraea Sw. to C. sivartzianaa because of the different C. 

 petraea Thunb.b 



7. Chloris radiata (L.) Sw. Prod. 26. 1788. 

 Agrostis radiata L. Syst: Nat. ed. 10. 2: 873. 1759. 



Eastern Cuba, 1856-57, Wright 742; Santiago de las Vegas, Tracy 9110, Hitchcock in 

 1906; Playa de Cojimar, Hitchcock in 1906; Triscornia, Hitchcock in 1906; Habana, 

 Leon 558. 



56. BOUTELOUA Lag. Var. Ciena 2 4 : 134. 1805. c 



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Primary racemes few, distant on the main axis (5 to 15 mm. apart); 



blades 1 to 2 mm. wide 1. B. americana. 



Primary racemes numerous, secund, approximate (1 to 5 mm. apart); 



blades 3 to 5 mm. wide 2. B. disticha. 



1. Bouteloua americana (L.) Scribn. Proc. Acad. Phila. 1891: 306. 1891. 

 Aristida americana L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 2: 879. 1759. 



Bouteloua litigiosa Lag. Gen. & Sp. Nov. 5. 1816. 



Bouteloua humboldtiana Griseb. Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 8: 532. 1862. 



Bouteloua porphyranika Wright, Anal. Acad. Cienc. Habana 8: 201. 1871; Sauv. 

 Fl. Cub. L92. 



Wright 165, 166, 3816; Wright 3815 and 734 in Gray Herbarium; Triscornia, Baker 

 \\C 1873, Tracy 9088, Hitchcock in 1906; Habana, Curtiss 546, Leon 293; Colima, Baker 

 HC 1978; La Magdalena, Baker HC 3621, Regla, Shafer 489; Guanabacoa, Leon 38; 

 Marianao, Leon 231; Cojimar, Hitchcock in 1906. 



The Grisebach specimens are Wright 161 of 1865, "Bushy savannas, Hanabana, June 

 1," and 739, from eastern Cuba, 1859. The specimens cited above agree with the 

 Linnsean type, which is not Aristida dispera Trin. as stated by Munro.^ 



2. Bouteloua disticha (H. B. K.) Benth. Journ. Linn. Soc. 19: 105. 1882. 

 Polydon distichus H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 1: 175. 1816. 



Madruga, Curtiss 537; Habana, Leon 299. 



" In Mart. Fl. Bras 2 3 : 68. 1878. c Botelua in the original. 



6 Prod. 20. 1794. d p ro c. Linn. Soc. Hot. 6: 49. L862. 



