MANUAL OF THE GRASSES OF THE WEST INDIES ~ 45 
narrow, 15 to 45 cm long, the long branches more or less appressed; 
spikelets 5 to 8 mm long, 7- to 15-flowered; lemmas 1.5 to 1.8 mm long. 
Ditches and marshes near the coast, Guadeloupe. Swartz, in the 
original description, gives the locality ‘“Insulae caribaeae.” In a 
later work © he gives ‘‘Lucia, Guadeloupe.”’ 
Lenwarp Istanps: Guadeloupe, Duss 3142; Hitchcock 16414, 
“Erect at base but branched above and more or less leaning. Pan- 
icles all slender and narrow. In ditches along road through brackish 
swamp.” 
21. Eragrostis domingensis (Pers.) Steud., Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 278. 
1854. 
Poa domingensis Pers., Syn. Pl. 1: 88. 1805. Santo Domingo. 
Eragrostis gigantea Trin., Mém. Acad. St. Pétersb. VI. Math. 
Phys. Nat. 1: 403. 1830. Santo Domingo. 
Perennial; culms rather stout, erect, 0.5 to 1.5 m tall; sheaths 
glabrous or sparsely pilose at the summit; blades flat becoming more 
or less involute in drying, elongate, 2 to 5 mm wide; panicles 25 to 
50 cm long, the branches ascending or appressed, usually rather 
closely flowered to the base, the lower sometimes distant; spikelets 
mostly short-pedicellate, 5 to 10 mm long, 10- to 25-flowered; lemmas 
1.5 to 1.8 mm long. 
Beaches and rocky soil near the coast, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, 
and a few other localities. 
CuBa: Bahia Honda, Wilson 9257; Ekman 12696. Habana, Léon 
5620, 5650. Santa Fé, Léon 15868. Yayales, Ekman 11192. Cara- 
bela Grande, Roig 3200. 
JAMAICA: St. Anns Bay, Aidley 87. Bushy Park, Harris 12518, 
Healthshire Hills, Harris 11618. Mouth of Cockpit River, Harris 
12466. Portland, Britton 1923. Port Henderson, Ridley in 1916. 
Grand Cayman, Hitchcock in 1890; Millspaugh 1240. 
Harti: Bayeux, Ekman H 2604. Cocoa Point, Nash 1780. Tor- 
tuga Island, Leonard 11426, 12380, 12486, 13918; Kkman H 4211, 
Lerwarp Isuanps: Guadeloupe, Duss 3422, 
WINDWARD Isuanps: Martinique, Duss 565. 
13. MONANTHOCHLOE Engelm., Acad. Sci. St. Louis, Trans. 
1: 436. 1859 
Plants dicecious; spikelets, 2- or 3-flowered, usually sessile in pairs, 
concealed in the upper sheaths; glumes leaflike, rigid, with mem- 
branaceous sheaths and short, strongly veined spreading blades, the 
first about equaling the uppermost floret; lemmas rather rigid, the 
palea with winged keels. Creeping wiry perennial, with clustered 
short subulate blades, the spikelets inconspicuous at the ends of the 
short branches, only a little exceeding the leaves. 
1. Monanthochloé littoralis Engelm., Acad. Sci. St. Louis, Trans. 1: 
AG Dis 13. 1859. . Texas. 
Culms tufted, the short branches erect; blades falcate, mostly less 
than 1 cm long (fig. 23). 
Muddy seashores and tidal flats, in the warmer parts of America. 
Cusa: Cayo Cruz, Shafer 2773. 
15 F], Ind. Oce. 1: 216. 1797. 
