26 BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN MEMOIRS 



POACEAE 



Saccharum officinarum L. Subspontaneous after cultivation, 

 St. Croix, where it is extensively cultivated for sugar; grown in small 

 patches on St. Thomas and St. Jan. 



Andropogon glomeratus (Walt.) B. S. P. Doubtfully recorded 

 from St. Thomas by Hackel. 



Andropogon bicornis L. [Anatherum bicorne Beauv.] On the 

 high hills of St. Thomas and St. Jan. 



Andropogon leucostachyus H.B.K. St. Thomas. 



Andropogon juncifolius Desv. St. Croix. 



Andropogon ceriferus Hack. St. Thomas. 



Andropogon panormitanus Pari. [A. saccharoides of Eggers; 

 A. Wrightii of Millspaugh.] St. Croix. 



Andropogon Schoenanthus L. Cultivated for perfume. 



Heteropogon contortus (L.) Beauv. Krumbay, St. Thomas 

 (according to Eggers). 



Holcus Sorghum L. [H. saccharatus L.; Sorghum vulgare Pers.; 

 Andropogon Sorghum Brot.] Subspontaneous after cultivation, St. 

 Croix; St. Thomas. 



Anthephora hermaphrodita (L.) Kuntze. [Tripsacum herma- 

 phroditumL.; A nthephora elegans Schreb.; A. villosa Spreng.] Waste 

 and cultivated grounds, St. Thomas; St. Croix. 



Nazia aliena (Spreng.) Scribn. [Lappago aliena Spreng.; Nazia. 

 racemosa aliena Scribn. & Smith; confused by authors with Nazia 

 racemosa (L.) Kuntze = Tragus racemosus (L.) Haller.] Sandy fields, 

 thickets and waste grounds, St. Thomas; St. Jan (according to 

 Eggers) ; St. Croix. 



Valota insularis (L.) Chase. [Andropogon insularis L.; Pani- 

 cum leucophaeum H.B.K. ; P. insulare Meyer ; Tricholaena insularis 

 Griseb.; Syntherisma insularis Millsp.] Dry soil, St. Thomas; St. 

 Jan; St. Croix. 



Valota Eggersii (Hack.) Hitchc. & Chase. [Panicum Eggersii 

 Hack.] St. Thomas. Endemic. 



Syntherisma digitata (Sw.) Hitchc. [Milium digitatum Sw.; 

 Digitaria setigera Roth; D. horizontalis Willd.; Syntherisma setigera 

 Nash; P. sanguinale vulgare of Kuntze in part.] Fields, hills and 

 cultivated grounds, St. Thomas; St. Croix. 



Syntherisma sanguinalis (L.) Dulac. [Panicum sanguinale L. ; 

 Digitaria marginata Link.] Fields, hills and cultivated grounds, St. 

 Thomas; St. Jan; St. Croix. 



Syntherisma Ischaemum (Schreb.) Nash. [Panicum Ischaemum 

 Schreb.] St. Croix (according to Hitchcock & Chase). 



