CHLOHIDE.E. 43^ 



A sparingly bnmched cmuual 30-60 cm. high. Shoatlis thinly 

 clothed with sleuder hairs from warty bases; 

 blades flat, scabrous, 8-12 cm. long. Spikes 

 20-50 in number, 3-7 cm. long, in a paniclelike 

 raceme, 20-30 cm. long, often partially enclosed 

 by the upper sheath. Hpikelets loosely imbri- 

 cate, 2— 4-flowered, 2-3 mm. long; empty glumes 

 membranous, wath one scabrous nerve, first 

 lanceolate, nearly 2 mm. long, second a little 

 broader and longer, mucronate, 3-nerved; floral 

 glume membranous, 3-nerved, broadly oval, Fig. l%.—Leptochloa 

 emarginate, hairy on the back and margins, 1.3 let'^'TscrUjiier)^^* 

 mm. long; palea broadly hairy, equalling its 

 glume. A form with a few slender spikes and rather distant 

 spikelets is var. tenella Scribn. 



Tennessee, Curtiss 3449 from Gattinger; Texas, Hell 777, Rev- 

 erclion, Lindheimer 212; New Mexico, Wright 756; Arizona, 

 Pi-ingle in 1884; California, Coulter 785; Mexico, Palmer 117, 

 1364. 



Virginia, Illinois, south and west. 



Var. pulchella Scribn. Bull. Torr. Club, 9: 147 (1885). 



Culms slender, tufted, erect, 12-24 cm. high, including panicle; 

 blades 2-7 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide; panicle erect, spikes 2-3 cm. 

 long. 



Texas (El Paso), Pringle; Arizona (near Tucson), Pringle; 

 southern California, Orcutt for Nat. Mus.; Mexico, Palmer 50, 

 694. 



3. L. Nealleyi Vasey, Bull. Torr. Club, 12:7 (1885). 



A smooth grass, 60-80 cm. high. Blades 15-25 cm. long, 4 

 mm. wide; upper sheaths long and including the base of the pani- 

 cle. Panicle 20-25 cm. long, narrow. Spikes closely flowered, 

 2.5 cm. long, in threes or fives or scattering. Spikelets oval, 3 mm. 

 long, 3-5-flowered, empty glumes ovate, 1-nerved, first 0.7 mm. 

 long, second twice as long; floral glume oval, 1-1.7 mm. long, 3- 

 nerved, mucronate in the emarginate apex, pubescent on the nerves; 

 palea oval, as long as its glume, obtuse, pubescent on the nerves. 



