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 Parl. [A. saccharoides of Eggers; 
A. Wrighttt of Millspaugh.] St. Croix. 
ANDROPOGON SCHOENANTHUS L. Cultivated for perfume. 
HETEROPOGON ConToRTUS (L.) Beauv. Krumbay, St. Thomas 
(according to Eggers). 
Houcus SorcHum L. [H. saccharatus L.; Sorghum vulgare Pers.; 
Andropogon Sorghum Brot.| Subspontaneous after cultivation, St. 
Croix:* St. Dhomas: 
ANTHEPHORA HERMAPHRODITA (L.) Kuntze. [TZripsacum herma- 
phroditum L.; Anthephora 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 EcceErRsII (Hack.) Hitchc. & Chase. [Panicum Eggersu 
Hack.] St. Thomas. Endemic. 
SYNTHERISMA DIGITATA (Sw.) Hitche. [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). 
