PANICE.E. 167 



lanceolate, 10 nini. or moiv long:, first glume 1 mm. long, second 

 aciuniniite, l-nervecl, 3—4 mm. long; floral glumes of both llorets 

 ovate-lanceolate, about 10 mm. long, 7-U-nerved; palea but little 

 sliorter. 



Sometimes cultivated as an ornamental grass. 



Abyssinia. 



00. (-^1). Stenotaphrum Trin. Fund. Agrost. 175 (IS'^>(>). 

 Diaslcmtoithe Steud. Syn. PI. Gram. 3G0 (1S55). 



8[)ikelets with one terminal perfect llower and a staminate or 

 neuter one below it, usually 2-4 together in very short spikes em- 

 bedded in the alternate notches of the broad rachis of a spikclike 

 ])ani(!le, the rachis of the partial spike usually extending as a short 

 I)oint beyond the base of the terminal spikclet, the common rachis 

 often breaking into pieces when mature. The first empty glume 

 very small, the second empty, and tl;e largest membranous, but 

 rigid, 3-5-nerved : iloral glumes of both florets rather smaller, with 

 the nerves loss prominent, and of a somewhat firmer texture: paleae 

 similar. Styles distiiict. Graiii enclosed, but not adherent. 



(Jrasses with a creeping habit. I'iu^re are two or throe species 

 widely spread over tropical and subtropical regions of the Eastern 

 and the Western llomispheres. 



1. S. secundatum (Walt.) Kuntzo, Kev. (ien. PI. 794 (ISOl). 

 JsclnviDiii}! sr('ii)i(l((tiiii> W'dt. l-'l. Cai'ol. 240 (17S8). S. Anwrint- 

 tniiii Schrank. Klor. Monac. /. OS (ISll-lS). nidsfonaufhe phitij- 

 xhii'lijis Stoud. 1. c. liottba'Uiu coDipi'i'ssa Beauv. Agrost. 100 

 (lsi->). 



A glubrous ascencling perennial grass, about 30 on. high. 

 Culms slightly flattened. Sheaths compressed, loose; ligulc a ciliate 

 ring; Idades obtuse, flat oi' involute, 10-1.5 cm. long, 5-7 nun. 

 wide. Spikes solitary aiul terminal, 5-7 cm. long, convex on both 

 sides or t'lliptic^d in cros.s-section, axis sligiitly lleMio.se, 4 mm. wide. 

 Spikelets 2 or 3 together on angular branches, sessile, oval-oblong, 

 iicute or acuminate, 4 mm. long, the ])artial rachis reaching nearly 

 to the top of the s})ikelets. 



Florida, (itirbor, Ciirtif^s 3021; Ijouisiana, Latujlois; Cuba. 

 ]\'rujhf 34! 10. 



