Reprinted from the Botanical Gazette, 51: pp. 300-302 No. 4, April, 191 1 



ADDITIONS TO THE GRASSES OF CUBA 



Since the publication of the Catalogue of the grasses of Cuba,^ several 

 additional species of grasses have been contributed to the National 

 Herbarium by Brother Leon of the Colegio de la Salle, Habana. The 

 following is a list of these: 



Manisuris exaltata (L. f.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2:779. 1891. 



Stegosia exaltata Nash, N. Amer, Fl. 17:84. 1909. 



This species is retained provisionally in Manisuris until the genera of 

 Andropogoneae are more carefully examined. 



Sancti Spiritus, Leon 847. 



Andropogon squarrosus L. f. Suppl. 433. 1 78 1. 

 Habana, Leon 1581. Introduced. 



Andropogon caricosus L. Sp. PL ed. 2. 2 : 1480. 1763. 

 Guanabacoa, Leon 2013. Introduced. 



Sorghastrum agrostoides (Speg.). 



Andropogon agrostoides Speg. PI. Nov. Nonnul. Amer. Austr. Dec. 2:27. 

 1883. 



Sancti Spiritus, Leon 895. 



Paspalum blepharophyllum Nash, in Small Fl. Southeast. U.S. 71. 

 1903. 

 Marianao, Leon, 779. 



Paspalum Helleri Nash, Bull. Torrey Club 30:376. 1903. 

 Santiago de Cuba, Leon 951. 



Paspalum monostachyum (H. B. K.) Vasey, in Chapm. Fl. South. 

 U.S. ed. 2. 665. 1889. 



Zaza de Tunas, Santa Clara, Leon 947. The spikelets are smaller than in 

 the typical form. 



Paspalum Leoninum Chase, sp. nov. — A low tufted perennial, with 

 P JiOi narrow leaves mostly crowded at the base, slender nearly naked 

 culms and solitary usually purplish racemes. Culms 15-35 cm. 

 high, very slender, wiry, compressed, ascending or spreading and 

 more or less sinuous, glabrous, the nodes ascending-pubescent; lower 

 sheaths overlapping and keeled, glabrous or sparsely pubescent 

 on the scarious margin and wath a few stiff hairs on the auricles, 



3 Hitchcock, A. S., Contr. Nat. Herb. 12:183-258. 1909. 



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