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Abarca 3735. Camagiiey, Britton 2373. Placetas del Sur, Léon 
6425. Cojimar, Baker 5332. Madruga, Léon 8951. Baragua, 
Hitchcock 23386. Manacas, Léon 5884. Isla de Pinos, Taylor 25; 
Palmer and Riley 948; Ekman 11657; Britton and Wilson 
¥ 14708, 14944. Without locality, Wright 3423. 
JAMAICA: New Forest, Hitchcock 9854 (Amer. Gr. Nat. 
Herb. 692). Lititz Savanna, Harris 11661, 12435, 12680. 
Harti: Acul-Samedi, Ekman H 9920. 
Dominican ReEpusuic: Cuenca, Ekman H 13298. 
Moncién, Valeur 145. Cotuy, Abbott 795. 
Purrto Rico: Bayamon, Sintenis 1233. Santurce, 
Heller 584. Campo Alegre, Chase 6798 (Amer. Gr. Nat. 
Herb. 693). Sabana Abajo, Britton and Brown 5719. 
Joyuda, Britton, Stevens, and Hess 2396. San Juan, 
Chase 6634. 
15. Eragrostis acutiflora (H. B. K.) Nees, Agrost. Bras. 
501. 1829. 
Poa acutiflora H.B.K., Nov. Gen. et Sp. 1: 161. 1816. 
Colombia. 
Perennial; culms tufted, rather rigid, sparingly 
branching, 20 to 40 cm tall, blades erect, flat or involute, 
1 to 2mm wide; panicles 10 to 20 cm long, the spikelets 
short-pedicellate, somewhat crowded along the stiffly 
ascending primary branches; spikelets 4 to 5 mm long, 
6- to 10-flowered; lemmas acuminate, 2 mm long. 
Ditches and open moist soil, Trinidad and northern 
South America. 
TrinipaD: Piarco Savanna, Freeman 7533; Britton 
and Hazen 721; Hitchcock 10344. Aripo Road, Broad- 
way 5827. Without locality, Broadway 7750. 
16. Eragrostis ekmanii Hitchc., sp. nov.” 
Perennial; culms erect, firm, wiry, 50 to 60 cm tall; 
sheaths glabrous, the summit glabrous or very sparsely 
pilose; blades erect, firm, flat, folded or involute, 5 to 
15 cm long, 1 to 2 mm wide, sparsely long-pilose on the 
upper surface near the base, otherwise glabrous; panicle 
erect, stiff, consisting of several clusters of spikelets 
along an axis 9 to 14 cm long, the lower clusters 10 
to 15 mm long, distant, the upper shorter, 
somewhat confluent; spikelets pale or slightly 
tinged with purple, about 5 mm long, mostly 
9- to 13-flowered; florets closely imbricate, 
acute, firm, minutely roughened (under a 
lens) about 1.5 mm long, the lateral nerves 
distinct; nerves of palea scaberulous (fig. 22). 
: r Type in the United States National Her- 
panicle, C1: Aleve, 210 (ape, barium, no. 1387320, collected in sandy pine- 
lands, Los Indios, Isla de Pinos, November 8, 
12 Planta perennis; culmi erecti caespitosi, 50-60 cm alti; vaginae glabrae, faucibus glabris; laminae erectae 
planae vel involutae 5-15 cm longae 1-2 mm latae, supra pilosae ad basen: panicula erecta 7-14 cm longa, 
spiculis fasciculatis, fasciculis inferioribus distantibus, superioribus confluentibus; spiculae 5 mm longae 
9-13-florae; lemmata acuta arcte imbricata firma minute scaberula 1.5 mm longa, nervis distinctis. 
