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57. ELETJSINE Gaertn. Fruct. & Sem. 1: 7. pi. 1. 1788. 



1. Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn. Fruct. & Sem. 1: 8. 1788. 



Cynosurus indicus L. Sp. PI. 72. 1753. 



Saline fiats, Matanzas, July 4, Wright 744; Santiago de las Vegas, Baker HC 513, 

 1139, Hitchcock in 1906; Puentes Grandes, Leon 278; Habana, Leon 294; Guanajay, 

 Palmer & Riley 817; Santiago de Cuba, Millspaugh 1111; Cienfuegos, Combs 260 in 

 Gray Herbarium; Isle of Pines, Curtiss in 1904 in Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 



The Grisebach specimen is no. 277 of 1865. The Sauvalle specimen also bears the 

 secondary number 277. 



58. DACTYLOCTENIUM Willd. Enum. 1029. 1809. 



1. Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Richt. PI. Eur. 1: 68. 1870. 



Cynosurus aegyptius L. Sp. PI. 72. 1753. 



Pine woods, Nueva Filipina, Wright 3821 (misprinted 3831 in Sauvalle's Flora 

 Cubana); Habana, Leon 289, 554, Baker HC 1795, Curtiss 636; Puentes Grandes, Leon 

 273; Triscornia, Hitchcock in 1906; Cojimar, Hitchcock in 1906; Batabano, Baker HC 

 3919; Cienfuegos, Combs 513 in Gray Herbarium. 



59. LEPTOCHLOA Beauv. Agrost. 71. pi. 15. f. 1. 1812. 



Spikelets 2 to 4-flowered, imbricated, on one side of the panicle branches. 



Upper glume as long as lower lemma; sheaths papillose-hispid ... 2. L. mucronata. 



Upper glume shorter than lower lemma; sheaths smooth 4. L. virgata. 



Spikelets several-flowered; inflorescence not conspicuously 1-sided. 



Inflorescence a single spike 3. L. spicata. 



Inflorescence of several spike-like racemes 1 . L. fascicularis. 



1. Leptochloa fascicularis (Lam.) Gray, Man. 588. 1848. 

 Festuca fascicularis Lam. Tabl. Encycl. 1: 189. 1791. 



In tufts, ditches, Matanzas, July 6, Wright303; Wright 3822; Wright 3812 in National 

 Herbarium; Batabano, Baker HC 2762, Hitchcock in 1906. In the herbarium of the New 

 York Botanical Garden: Matanzas, Britton & Wilson 176; Batabano, Shafer 488. 



The Grisebach specimen collected in 1865 is numbered 303. 



2. Leptochloa mucronata (Michx.) Kunth, Rev. Gram. 1: 91. 1829. 

 Eleusine mucronata Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. 1: 65. 1803. 



In fields, Punta de Palma, September, Wright 740; Habana, Britton & Wilson 509, 

 Hitchcock in 1906; Isle of Pines, Curtiss 508; Guanabacoa, Leon 580. 



In the National Herbarium are two Wright specimens of this, numbered 740 and 

 741. The latter number is probably an error, the label having been interchanged 

 with that of a specimen of L . fascicularis . In the Gray Herbarium there are two sheets 

 numbered 741, of which one is L. filiformis from "Cultivated ground, Valestina, Nov. 

 12," 1865, the other L. virgata. 



The type of Festuca filiformis Lam. rt "ex Amer. merid. Comra. D. Richard" upon 

 which Leptochloa filiformis Beauv. is presumably based, has not been examined, and 

 the description is insufficient for identification. This name may be found to apply to 

 this species. 



3. Leptochloa spicata (Nees) Scribn. Proc. Acad. Phila, 1891: 304. 1891. 

 Bromus spicatus Nees, Agrost. Bras. 471. 1829. 



Triscuspis simplex Griseb.Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 8: 532. 1862. 

 Wright 1551. 



There are two Wright specimens in the Grisebach Herbarium, both from eastern 

 Cuba, no. 114 of 1860 and no. 1551 of 1859. Wright's 1551 is represented in the Gray 



"Tabl. Encycl. 1: 191. 1791. 

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