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4. Andropogon f astigiatus Sw. Prod. 26. 1788. 

 Dry savannas October 26. Wright 3483. 



No. 3483 of Wright, 1865, is accompanied by two supplementary labels, "Savannas, 

 San Cristobal, Nov.," and ''Culms few or single, sandy pine woods, Pinar del Rio, 

 Dec." The Grisebach specimen of this is from "Cub. occ, 1863" and bears the sec- 

 ondary number "921=3483." No. 3485 [error for 3483?] in the Gray Herbarium was 

 collected by Wright in 1860-64 in "sandy pine woods, Asiento Viejo, Los Remales, 

 Dec. 2." 



5. Andropogon glomeratus (Walt.) B.S.P. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 67. 1888. . 

 Cinna glomerata Walt. Fl. Car. 59. 1788. 



Andropogon macrourum Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. 1: 56. 1803. 



Hanabana, Wright 1555; Isle of Pines, Curtiss 294, Taylor 18 in Herb. N. Y. Bot. 

 Gard.; Batabano, Shafer 224; Habana, Schott 103; Guanabacoa, Leon 565, 572; 

 Santiago de las Vegas, Wilson 2207 in Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.; Matanzas, Britton 

 & Wilson 83, 94 in Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.; Maraguana, Wilson 7553 in Herb. N. Y. 

 Bot. Gard. 



Wright's 1555 in the National Herbarium is A. bicornis. The specimen in the Grise- 

 bach Herbarium with this number is A. glomeratus, but it is from eastern Cuba, col- 

 lected in 1859. In the Gray Herbarium one sheet of Wright 1555 (1859) is A . glomeratus, 

 another (1865)^ is A. bicornis. 



6. Andropogoia, gracilis Spreng. Syst. 1:284. 1825. 

 Schizachyrium gracile Nash in Small, Fl. Southeast. U. S. 60. 1903. 



Wright 3484 [3480 in Sauv. Fl. Cub.] without data. Isle of Pines, Curtiss 380, 

 Taylor 17; Buena Vista, Shafer in 1903; Herradura, Baker d: Dimmock HC 4829, 

 Tracy 9067; Candelaria, Earle & Wilson HC 1637; Calvario, Leon 562. 



Wright's 3484 in the Grisebach Herbarium has a blank label of 1860-64, but is without 

 other data. The Wright specimen of this species in the National Herbarium has a 

 blank label of 1865, with the number 204 and also a tag in Wright's handwriting, 

 "Pine woods, Cagalbana, Apr. 17." Wright's 1557, in the Grisebach Herbarium, 

 "Cub. or." in 1859, is also A. gracilis. This species was described under Andropogon 

 scoparius Michx. in Sagra's History of Cuba.a 



7. Andropogon leucopogon Nees, Linnaea 19: 694. 1847. 



Isle of Pines, Curtiss 382; Wright 1556 in Grisebach Herbarium. 



In the Grisebach Herbarium and in the Gray Herbarium Wright 1556 is labeled as 

 collected in eastern Cuba in 1859. Curtiss 's specimen was distributed under an 

 unpublished name.^g.f^n §r^3 



8. Andropogon leucostachys H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 1:187. 1816. 

 Andropogon domingensis Roem. & Schult. Syst. 2:809. 1817. 



Isle of Pines, Curtiss 314, Taylor 16; Madruga, Baker HC 3458; Herradura, Earle 

 HC 3111, Tracy 9046, Consolacion del Sur, Palmer d; Riley 480; bushy savannas, 

 Hanabana, May 17, Wright 3900.' 

 -rGrisebach's specimen of this has an 1865 label with the secondary number 202. -- ^ 



9. Andropogon nasnianus sp. nov. 



Culms solitary or few in a cluster, simple, slender, erect, glabrous, 30 to 45 cm. 

 high, nodes glabrous; sheaths glabrous or sparsely pilose toward the summit, much 

 shorter than the elongated intemodes, broader at the summit than the base of the 



«Rich. in Sagra, Hist. Cub. 11: 320. 1850. The types of the grasses described by 

 Richard in this work are at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle at Paris. The types 

 of Panicum were examined by the writer in the spring of 1907. Fragments from the 

 types of five other species were later sent to the National Herbarium through the 

 kindness of Director Le Comte. 



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