Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 61 



General Distribution: Cuba, Isle of Pines, Jamaica, Porto Rico, 

 Trinidad, Guiana. 



86. Paspalum plicatulum Michaux. 

 Paspalum plicatulum Michaux, Flora Boreali-Americana, I, 1803, P- 45- 



"Isle of Pines, Palmer & Riley 947, Taylor 38, . . . Curtiss in 

 1904" (Hitchcock). General Distribution: In dry sandy soil, Georgia 

 and Florida to Texas, and south through the West Indies and tropical 

 America. 



87. Paspalum pulchellum Kunth. 



Reimaria elegans Fluegge, Graminum Monographiae, 18 10, p. 216. Not Paspalum 



elegans Kunth, 1833. 

 Paspalum pulchellum Kunth, Memoires de la Societe d'Histoire Naturelle de 



Paris, II, 1815, p. 68. 



"Isle of Pines, Curtiss in 1904 in Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard." (Hitch- 

 cock). General Distribution: Cuba and the Isle of Pines. . 



88. Paspalum Rottboellioides Wright. 



Paspalum rottboellioides Wright, Anales del Academia de Ciencias Medicas, Fisicas j 

 Naturales de Ja Habana, VIII, 1871, p. 204. 



Near Nueva Gerona, February 28, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. J75; 

 in 1901, A. A. Taylor (Hitchcock). General Distribution: In sandy 

 savannas, Cuba, and in the Isle of Pines. 



89. Paspalum virgatum Linnaeus. 



Paspalum virgatum Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, Ed. X, II, 1759, p. 855. 

 Paspalum leuchocheilum Wright, op. cit., p. 203. 



Near Nueva Gerona, May 15, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 501; in an 

 open spot in the river-bank forest at Los Indios, May 20, 1910, 0. E. 

 Jennings, No. 448. General Distribution: From southern Mexico to 

 Costa Rica, in the West Indies, and in tropical South America. 



90. Paspalum viigatum var. Schreberianum Fluegge. 



Paspalum. virgatum var. Schreberianum, Fluegge, Graminum Monographiae, 1816, 

 p. 190. 



Reported by Hitchcock, on the basis of one of the A. H. Curttss 

 specimens from Nueva Gerona, collected in 1904, and now in the 

 herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. The variety differs 

 from the species in having a "scarcely pilose rachis and oblong-obO' 

 vate, acute, glabrous spikelets." Hitchcock. 



