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pedicellate, the lateral pedicels often less than 1 mm, linear, mostly 
7 to 12 mm, rarely as much as 25 mm, long, 10 to 20-flowered, the 
florets closely imbricate; lemmas firm, acute, about 1.8 mm long. 
Sandy or rocky soil, Cuba and Jamaica. Grisebach ' refers this 
species to EL’. bahiensis Schrad. 
Cusa: Herradura, Hkman 10696; Earle 650; Hitchcock 261; Tracy 
9097. San Diego de los Bafios, Léon 4559. Sumidero, Léon 3471. 
Sierra de Cabra, Britton and Gager 7271. Madruga, Shafer 68. 
Laguna Jovero, Shafer 10731. Pinar del Rio, Hitchcock 23285. 
Baragua, Mitchcock 23359, 23376. Zaza de Tunas, Léon 886. With- 
out locality, Wright 3424, 3825. Isla de Pinos, Britton and Wilson 
14194, 15382. Sabalo, Léon 15099. 
JAMAICA: New Forest, Hitchcock 9852 (Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 691). 
Lititz Savanna, Harris 11664, 11734, 12441, 12678. 
FIGURE 21.—fragrosiis elliottii. Panicle, X 1; floret, x 10 (Tracy 7384). 
14. Eragrostis elliottii S. Wats., Amer. Acad. Proc. 25: 140. 1890. 
Poa nitida Ell., Bot.S.C. and Ga. 1: 162. 1816. South Carolina. 
Not Poa nitida Lam. 1791, nor Eragrostis nitida Link, 1827. 
Eragrostis macropoda Pilger, in Urban, Symb. Antill. 4: 106. 1908. 
Puerto Rico, Sintenis 1233. 
Perennial; culms tufted, about 50 cm tall, the rather stiff leaves 
mostly clustered toward the base, the very diffuse few-flowered 
panicle more than half the entire height of the plant, the panicle 
axis and the capillary branches fragile; spikelets on long, rather stiff, 
slender pedicels, mostly 8- to 15-flowered, 5 to 12 mm long; lemmas 
closely imbricate, acute, about 2 mm long (fig. 21). 
Sandy savannas and sterile hills, southeastern United States on the 
Coastal] Plain and in the West Indies." 
Cupa: Herradura, Tracy 9096; Hitchcock 260. Guane, Léon 7310. 
Pinar del Rio, Hitchcock 23289; Palmer and Riley 441; Baker and 
10 F], Brit. W. Ind. 532. 1864. 
11 The species occurs frequently in the Bahamas (Britt. and Millsp. F], Baham. 40. 1926). 
