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DISTRIBUTION. 



Cultivated and waste ground, escaped from cultivation, Florida to Texas, and 

 throughout subtropical and tropical America; native of Brazil. 



Florida: Merrimack, Baker 48; Braidentown, Combs 1265, 1311, Tracy 7763. 



Alabama: Mobile, Mohr. in 1880. 



Texas: Without locality, Nealley. 



Mexico: Cuantla, Holway 3045; Manzanillo, Palmer 1078 in 1890; Colima, Em- 

 rich 8; Lower California, Brandegee 46. 



Guatemala: Alta Vera Paz, Tuerckheim 7799, 8617; Mazatenango, Maxon& Hay 

 3476. 



Salvador: Without locality, Renson 214. 



Nicaragua: Chinandega, Baker 2053. 



Costa Rica: Terraba, Pittier 412; border of Rio Tuis, Tonduz 11393. 



Bahamas: Nassau, CurtissW. Ind. PI. 115. 



Cuba: Puentes Grandes, Leon 283; near Cienfuegos, Pringle 26, Habana, Leon 

 568; Romelie, Eggers 4870. 



Porto Rico: Bayamon, Heller 100, Millspaugh 324; Guanica, Millspaugh 727; 

 Yauco, Heller 6293; Los Mameges, Eggers 1328. 



Danish West Indies: St. Croix, Ricksecker 300. 



Leeward Islands: Guadeloupe, Duss 2689, VHerminier in part. 



Windward Islands: Martinique, Dim 539; Granada, Broadway in 1904 and 1905. 



Colombia: Santa Marta, Smith 211. 



British Guiana: Jenman 5998. 



Brazil: Bahia, Salzmann; Campinas, Novaes 1242; Sao Sebastiao, Lo/gren 3142; 

 without locality, Riedel. 



Paraguay: Morong 779a. 



Ecuador: Lehmann 5744. 

 This species occurs in the warmer parts of the Old World, where it was probably 

 introduced from South America. Hooker a states that it is "cultivated or naturalized ' ' 

 in Bengal and Ceylon. Trimen b makes 

 the following statement concerning it: 

 "A well-known fodder-grass in Ceylon, 

 but there is no record of its introduc- 

 tion into the island. According to 

 Roxburgh seeds were received at the 

 Calcutta Botanical Garden from Sumatra 

 in 1804, through Dr. Charles Campbell. 

 As it is a native of tropical America, 

 the Dutch, who then held ports in 

 Sumatra, may have imported it from 

 Surinam." Durand and Sch'inz c state 

 concerning P. barbinode, which is re- 

 ferred to P. molle Swartz, "Maurice, 

 occid. et abondamment repandu main tenant dans l'ancien monde (Baker)." 



Fasciculata. — Annuals with flat, usually rather wide blades; ligules ciliate or mem- 

 branaceous-ciliate, not over 1 mm. long; inflorescence of several narrow or 

 spike-like racemes along a main axis; second glume and sterile lemma usually 

 more or less reticulate-veined, at least toward the apex, the lemma, excepting 

 in occasional specimens of P. molle, inclosing a palea of nearly equal length 

 and often a staminate flower; fruit transversely rugose. 



Fig. 16.— Distribution of P. barbinode. 



Seychelles. — Distrib.: Originaire des Indea 



a Fl. Brit. Ind. 7 : 35. 1896. Hooker gives here several synonyms based upon Asiatic 

 specimens, which we have not examined. 



o Fl. Ceylon 5 : 140. 1900. c Consp. Fl. Afr. 5 : 755. 1895. 



