58 BriITTON: CuBAN PLANTS NEw TO SCIENCE 
Paspalum Edmondi Fr. Léon, sp. nov. 
A small tufted perennial with short rhizomes and numerous 
slender pubescent leafy branching stolons; stems simple, very 
slender, compressed, glabrous, 2-6 cm. long; leaves crowded at 
the base; sheaths pilose; ligule membranaceous, 0.5—1 mm. long; 
blades lanceolate to linear, pilose on the upper surface towards 
the base and near the lower margins, glabrous beneath, I-1.5 cm. 
long, sometimes up to 6 cm. long in the specimens grown in a rich 
soil, I-2 mm. wide, flat or somewhat involute towards apex; 
racemes solitary, up to 12 mm. long, usually about 6 mm., with a 
tuft of hairs at the base; rachis 0.5-0.7 mm. wide, glabrous; 
pedicels shorter than the spikelets ; spikelets solitary, with a short 
wing along the pedicel, somewhat imbricate, 1.5-2 mm. long, I-1.2 
mm. wide, ovate, abruptly acuminate-pointed; first glume want- 
ing, second glume glabrous, often transversely wrinkled, 7- 
nerved, conspicuously pointed; sterile lemma glabrous, more or 
less deeply hollowed between the strongly elevated, rugose, some- 
times tubercled margins, nearly as long-pointed as the second: 
glume; fruit blunt, brown, slightly papillose, 1.4 mm. long, I mm. 
wide. 
Palm barren, sabana de Motembo, Santa Clara (Léon & Ed- 
mond 8607). 
Specimens from the same locality were transplanted in 
Vedado, Havana (Léon & Edmond 8682). The type specimens 
are preserved in the Colegio De La Salle Herbarium, Vedado, 
Havana. | 
Paspalum acutifolium Fr. Léon, sp. nov. 
Perennial, tufted; culms simple, erect or ascending, glabrous, 
compressed, nearly naked, much exceeding the leaves, these » 
densely crowded at the base; nodes clothed with long white hairs; 
sheaths striate, keeled, mostly overlapping, glabrous, sometimes 
sparsely hispid towards the summit, hirsute-ciliate, the upper 
ones bladeless or nearly so; ligule membranaceous up to 2 mm. 
long ; blades firm, rarely over 15 cm. long, 4-8 mm. wide, sparsely 
papillose-hispid on both surfaces and the margin when young, 
mostly flat or conduplicate, sometimes twisted, involute towards 
apex, the middle nerve prominent beneath; inflorescence term- 
nal; racemes 2 to 4, the common axis 1-3.5 cm. long, with long 
white hairs at base; racemes straight or slightly curved, diver- 
gent, rarely spreading; rachis about 1 mm. wide, bearing a few 
long hairs at the base, otherwise glabrous; spikelets normally 1 
