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lanceolate, erect or nearly so, rather thin in texture. 0.7-2 
dm. long, 7-1 . wide: racemes IO-12 cm. long, r rather 
slender, the ae flat, about 1 mm. wide, the main culm 
usually bearing 2 racemes, the branches but 1 raceme: 
spikelets in pairs, on shorter pubescent pedicels, oval, 2.2 
mm. long and about 1.8 mm. broad; outer 2 scales mem- 
branous, “densely pubescent with short spreading glandular 
tipped hairs, 3-nerved, or the second often 2-nerved by the 
suppression of the ey flowering scale coriaceous, in 
cross-section triangular, the angles rounded; palet of similar 
texture. 
Collected by Dr. A. W. Chapman in Florida, no detailed 
data. Distinguished from P. c7/iatrfolium by the broader 
densely pubescent spikelets and the pubescent margins of the 
sheaths. 
PASPALUM PROPINQUUM. 
Culms tufted, 8-10 dm. tall, smooth and glabrous: leaves 
on the culm 2 or 3, scattered; sheaths loosely embracing the 
culm, the basal ones pubescent with short hairs, the remain- 
ing ones smooth and glabrous, the upper one much elongated 
and enclosing 1 or 2 concealed or more or less exserted 
raceme-bearing branches; ligule a brown scarious ring 
about 1 mm. wide; blades smooth and glabrous on both sur- 
faces, ciliate on the margins with stiff hairs, the hairs arising 
from papillae, linear, oe or nearly so, 0.5-2 dm. long, 
—10 mm. wide, the midnerve light-colored: racemes rather 
slender, straight or curved, 8-12 cm. long, I or 2 on the 
long-exserted culm, the branches bearing a single raceme, 
the rachis about 0.8 mm. wide; spikelets in pairs, on shorter 
pubescent pedicels, oval, about 1.8 mm. long and 1.5 mm 
wide, obtusely apiculate at the apex; outer 2 scales mem- 
branous, strongly pubescent with short spreading glandular- 
tipped hairs, the first scale 3-nerved, the second usually 
2-nerved by the suppression of the midnerve which is very 
rarely present; flowering scale coriaceous, triangular in 
cross-section, the angles much rounded; palet of similar tex- 
ture 
Oaiteaed by the writer in sandy soil at Eustis, Lake 
county, Florida, on July 25, 1894, no. 1427. It is closely 
related to P. celiatifolium, but can be distinguished by the 
smaller densely pubescent spikelets with their obtuse apicula- 
tion. 
