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Fig. 216. LEPTOCHXOA NEALLEYI Vasev, Bill. Torr. Bot. Club, 12 : 7. 

 188.^. (L.stricta Fourn. Mex. PI. 2:147. 1881, not Trin 1841. j NEALLEY'S 

 LEPTOCHLOA.— A .slender or rather stout xjerennial, with erect or ascending 

 culm.s 4..5-12 dm. (l|°-4°j high, and narrow, elongated panicles of many erect 

 or ascending spikes. Sheaths smooth, loo.se; leaf-blades 1.3-25 cm. (6'-10' i long, 

 ■1-6 mm. (2"-3") wide. Spikelets (a) 2-3 mm. (l"-li") long, 2 to 5 flowered; 

 empty glumes (b) unequal, ovate, acute, the first one-half as long as the second; 

 flowering glume (c) subobtuse or emarginate, pube.'scent on margins and keel. 

 Palea narrow, equaling the glume, finely pubescent on the keels.— Western 

 Texas. (Mexico.) April to June. 



