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1. Syntherisma longiflora ( l-tctz. ) vSkecls. U. S. Dept. Agr. Kur. I'l. Ind. I'.ull. 261:30. 1912. 



Paspalinii loii^i^iHontiii l\ctz. 01)s. I'.ot. 4:15. 1786. 



Stems crccpiiit,^. :is niucli as 40 cm. lon<j, sending up flowering culms 10 to 20 cm. tall, 

 erect from an ascending base, glabrous, s]iaringly pilose at the nodes : sheaths glabrous, shorter 

 than the inteniodes : lignle membranaceous, alxiut i mm. long: blades ovate-lanceolate to oblong- 

 lanceolate, I to 2 cm. long, T, to 5 mm. wide, clasping at the sparsely pilose base, glabrous ; 

 racemes 2 or 3, digitate, slender, often curved, 2 to 4 cm. long, the rachis narrowly winged, 

 glabrous: spikelet.s 1.5 mm. long, elliptic, acute, nearly glabrous, the longer pedicel terete, glab- 

 rous, about I mm. long: first glume wanting: second glume as long as the spikelet, 3-nervefl : 

 sterile lemma as long as the spikelet, 5-nerved : fruit pale, acute, as long as the spikelet (fig. 59). 



Figure 59. — Syntherisma Inngirtora. From Hitchcock 141S6. Hawaii. 



