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valle's Flora Cubana as "P. swartzianum Fliigg?," but it is not that species as here 

 understood. The specimen in the Gray Herbarium is less fragmentary. The blades 

 are long and narrow, 30 or 40 cm. long and less than 1 mm. wide; terminal spike 

 single; spikelets glabrous, 1.5 mm. long. A part of Wright 3444 in the Gray Her- 

 barium appears to be^this species. ^,^.jii<..eJ^-^**-^ 



P**^. (p 20/aXONOPUS Beauv. Agrost. 12. 1812. 



1. Axonopus compressus (Sw.) Beauv. Agrost. 12. 1812. 



Milium compressum Sw. Prod. 24. 1788. 



Paspalum compressum Rasp. Ann. Sci. Nat. I. 6: 301. 1825. 



Wet places in roads and elsewhere Zarabanda, May 21, Wright 3849, Wright 3850, 

 Wright 763 in Gray Herbarium; Isle of Pines, Curtiss 306, 511; Habana, Curtiss 606, 

 Leon 298; Herradura, Hitchcock in 1906, Tracy 9092; San Antonio, Baker HC 2946, 

 Hitchcock in 1906; Santiago de las Vegas, Hitchcock in 1906; Managua, Baker & Wilson 

 314 in Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.; Matanzas, Britton & Wilson 104 in Herb. N. Y. 

 Bot. Gard. ' . 



In the Grisebach Herbarium are. two specimens of this species, one of 1865 labeled, 

 "Roadside, Hanabana, . May 18," and bearing the secondary number 168, and one 

 of no. 765, 1860-64. The Sauvalle specimen of Wright 3850 has two labels, with 

 localities El Salado and Retiro. This number has narrower blades and larger spike- 

 lets, about 3 mm. long. This may be Paspalum tristachjon Lam./' the type of which 

 I have not seen. The sheet of Wright 3849 in the Gray Herbarium bears also a 

 SDecimen of Syntherisma digitata. 



21. LEPTOCORYPHITJM Nees, Agrost. Bras. 83. 1829. 



1. Leptocoryphium lanatum (H. B. K.) Nees, Agrost. Bras. 8k, 1829. 



Paspalum lanatum H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 1: 94. 1816. 



Wright 3429; Isle of Pines, Palmer & Riley 440, 972, Curtiss 393; La Magdalena, 

 Baker HC 4555; Herradura, Hitchcock in 1906, Tracy 9048, 9071. The following are 

 in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden : Santa Clara, Britton & Wilson 

 335; Pinar del Rio, Shaf er 4S1; Cedro, Underwood & Earle 1451, 1459. 



Grisebach's specimen, from western Cuba in 1863, is numbered "919=3429." 

 Wright's 3429 in the Gray Herbarium is labeled, "Wet savannas, Candelaria, June 

 3," and "Savannas near Pinar del Rio, Dec, 11." 



22. ERIOCHLOA H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 1: 94. pi. SO. SI. 1816. 



Blades filiform 1. E. Jilifolia. 



Blades flat. 



Friiit tipped with a slender awn 1 mm. long; blades 7 to 15 mm. 

 wide 2. E. punctata. 



Fruit merely apiculate; blades 2 to 3 mm. wide 3. E. famosa. 



1, Eriochloa lilifolia sp. nov. 



Plant cespitose; culms numerous, very slender, almost capillary, glabrous, 10 

 to 20 cm. high, erect or more or less geniculate below; leaves glabrous, blades very 

 narrow, convolute-setaceous, the lower about 10 cm. long, the upper shorter, the 

 uppermost 1 to 2 cm.; spikes mostly 2, erect, 1 to 2 cm. long, one terminal, the other 

 5 to 10 mm. below; rachis capillary, minutely pubescent or scabrous, pubescent 

 at base; spikelets 4 to 8, 3 mm. long, secund in a single row, the pedicels slender, 

 about 1 mm. long, the cup or joint dark-colored; glume and sterile lemma about 



«Tabl. Encycl. 1: 176. 1791. 



