10 



culiii i «>r 2, isliort; ha.-^al k'uvesi muneruiif^, 1 to '.] <lni. long, glabrous l)eneath, 

 more or le.ss pilone with scattered hairs on the ujtper surface near the base. 

 Tuflorescence long-exserted, the branches slender, spreading, 5 to 7 cm. long, 

 undulate, smooth, somewhat pubescent or pilose at the axils. Spikelets -1 mm. 

 long, lanceolate, acute, alternate, very shcjrt pedicellate, appressed; first and 

 second glumes equal, lanceolate, acuminate, 5-nerved, sparingly pilose with 



FKi. •l.—Pasimliuii wri ScrilMi. iS: Merrill: «, b, spikelets; c, same with the outer slnmcs removed. 



scattered hairs, especially at the base; flowering glume oblong, obtuse, 3 mm. in 

 length, glal)rous, bearing a tuft of few short hairs at the ajiex. Palea linear- 

 lanceolate, convex, equaling the glume. 



Foothills of the Sierra Madre Mountains, between Pedro Paulo and San P.lascito, 

 1995 J. X. Rose, August 4, LS97. 



Related to Paspalum 7tem! Kimth, but differing in its much smaller spikelets and 

 plane, smooth leaves. 



Paspalum squamulatum Fourn. Mex. PI. 2: 11 fb*^.Sl). 



Jalapa, State of Vcia Cruz, C. L. Smith, 1894. 



Paspalum tenellum Willd. Enum. Hort. i'.rrol. .S9 (1809). {/'. clnjini.^ Fliigge, 

 Monog. 183 (1810).) 



