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few-flowered panicle branches. The Martinique specimens have loose 
panicles with ascending branches, but the cilia on the keels of the 
palea are short and scarcely conspicuous. 
ERAGROSTIS CILIARIS Var. BRACHYSTACHYA Boiss., Fl. Orient. 5: 
582. 1884. EE. arabica Jaub. and Spach, Illustr. "4: SL, pl tease 
1850-53. This variety is common in Curacao and the neighboring 
islands. The panicles are dense and ovoid. Forms approaching this 
are sometimes found in the West Indies (Morillos de Cabo Rojo, 
Puerto Rico, Britton, Cowell, and Brown 4713). 
3. Eragrostis glutinosa (Swartz) Trin., Mém. Acad. St. Pétersb. VI. 
Math. Phys. Nat. 1: 397. 1830. 
Poa glutinosa Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 26. 1788. Jamaica. 
Eragrostis sudans Griseb., Cat. Pl. Cub. 227. 1866. Cuba, 
Wright 3422. 
Eragrostis leonina Hitche. and Chase, Contrib. U.S. Natl. Herb. 18: 
388. 1917. Cuba, Léon 885. 
Perennial, whole plant more or less viscid; culms many-noded, 
wiry, branching, erect or ascending, 10 to 30 cm tall; blades short, 
slender, involute; panicles open, oblong, 5 to 10 cm long, the branches 
stiffly ascending: spikelets 4 to 6 mm long, mostly 7- to 11-flowered; 
lemmas about 1.3 mm long; keels of palea rather prominently ciliate. 
Sandy soil, Cuba and Jamaica; the type collection is the only one 
known from Jamaica. 
Cusa: Zaza de Tunas, Léon 885, 6732. Camagiey, Britton 2374. 
Sabalo, Hkman 11413; Léon 15100. Guantanamo, Britton 2123. 
Without locality, Wright 3422. Isla de Pinos, Britton and Wilson 
15612. 
4. Eragrostis urbaniana Hitchc., in Urban, Symb. Antill. 7: 167. 
1912. Bonaire, Dutch West Indies, Suringar. 
Annual; culms spreading or prostrate, slender, 5 to 25 cm long; 
blades 1 to 4 em long, 0.5 to 2 mm wide, often involute: ; panicle narrow, 
interrupted below, 2 to 5 cm long; spikelets yellow or purple, fascicled, 
sessile or subsessile, 10- to 15-flowered, 3 to 6 mm long; palea ciliate 
on the keels. 
Sandy plains, Bahamas to Curagao. 
Bauamas: Caicos Islands, Wilson 7608, 7628; Millspaugh 9234. 
Turks Island, Millspaugh 9012, 9268, 9339 (in part), 9341. Great 
Ragged Island, Wilson 7828. Inagua, Nash and Taylor 1372. 
Haiti: Jean Rabel, Ekman H4007. 
Purrto Rico: Laguna de Tortuguero, Britton, Cowell, and Brown 
3854. 
VirGiIn Isuanps: Anegada, Britton and Fishlock 957. 
5. Eragrostis hypnoides (Lam.) B.S. P., Prel. Cat. N. -Y. 69. 1888. 
Poa hypnoides Lam. Tabl. Encycl. 1: 185. 1791. 
Poa carinata Poir., in Lam., Encycl. 5:86. 1804. Puerto Rico, 
Ledru. 
Stoloniferous, forming mats, the flowering culms mostly 5 to 10 
em tall; blades 1.5 to 2 cm long, spreading; panicles small, more or 
less capitate, the pale, many-flowered spikelets commonly 1 cm long 
(fig. 15). 
