510 



COKTEIBUTIOlSrS FEOM THE ISTATIONAL HERBAEIUM. 



The type specimen, consists of a culm mth four internodee, the base and summit 

 wanting, bearing two flowering branches. No other collection of the species is known. 

 It appears to be related to Panicum venesuelae Hack., from which it differs in the 

 smaller panicle and in the smaller and pubescent instead of bristly hispid spikelets. 



74. Panicum mill egr ana Poir. 



Panicum millegrana Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 4:278. 1816; Contr. XJ. S. Nat. 

 Herb. 15 : 135. 1910. 



Panicum patentissimum Desv.; Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 4: 283. 1816. "Cette 

 plante croit h Saint-Dominique & ^ la Nouvelle-Espagne." The type from the her- 

 barium of Desvaux in the Paris Herbarium is a fragmentary specimen consisting of a 

 panicle "vsath immature glabrous spikelets together with a few broken leaves. 



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Fig. 100.— Distribution of P. millegrana. 



DISTRIBUTION. 



Damp woods and shady banks, Mexico and the West Indies to Paraguay. The t^-pe 

 specimen from tropical America, probably from Cayenne. 



Veracruz: Cordoba, Am£r. Gr. Nat. Herh. 73. Jalapa, Hitchcock 6605, Holway 



3083. Mirador, Liehmann 275. 

 Oaxaca: Without locality, Galeotti 572S. ' 



; Chiapas: Santa Rosa, Heyde & 

 Lux S927. 

 Guatemala: Cubilquitz, Tiirch- 

 heim 8783, 8784. Coban, Tilrch- 

 heim 657. Guatemala City, 

 Hitchcock 9056. 

 Costa Rica: El General, Pittier 



10615. 

 Panama: El Boquete, . Hitchcock 



8299. 

 Cuba: Herradiu'a, Hitchcock 180, 

 Tracy 9098. La Catalina, 

 Wright 3455. Pinar del Rio, Wright 3855. Sumidero, Shafer 13562. Sierra 

 de Cabra, Britton & Gager 7201. 

 Trinidad: Pitch Lake, Hitchcock 10087. Port of Spain, Hitchcock 9979. 

 Venezuela: Tovar, Fendler 1Q4:1. 

 Colombia: Santa Marta, Smith 168, 2146. 



75. Panicum glutinosum. Swartz. 



Panicum glutinosum Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 24. 1788; Contr. U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. 15: 138. 1910. 



distribution. 



Mountain woods, throughout tropi- 

 cal America. The type specimen 

 from Jamaica. 



Veracruz : Mirador, Liehmann 

 428, Ross 701. Orizaba, 

 Bourgeau 3192, Botteri. 

 Jalapa, Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 

 74. Zacuapan, Purpus 2156, 

 2903. 



Fig. 101.— Distribution of P 



