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obscurely pubescent along the midnerve on the lower half, the margins 
pubescent, the midnerve minutely excurrent (fig. 29). 
Dry ground, rocks, and cliffs, 
Florida Keys, Cuba, Texas, and 
northern Mexico. 
Cusa: Vifales, Sierra de la 
Guazasa, Hkman 16606. 
21. STREPTOGYNE Beauv., 
Kss. Agrost. 80. pl. 16.f.8. 1812 
Spikelets several-flowered, sub- 
sessile in a long 1-sided raceme; 
glumes unequal, much shorter 
than the elongate terete callus- 
tipped florets; lemmas firm, taper- ost 
: : FIGURE 29.—Triodia eragrostoides. Panicle, X 1; 
ing into a slender awn ; palea two views of floret, & 5 (Swallen 1471). 
about as long as the lemma; 
stigmas 3, elongate, persistent, coiled, the mature fruits hanging by 
these entangled stigmas. Perennial with flat blades and slender 
erect raceme. 
1. Streptogyne crinita Beauv., Ess. Agrost. 80. pl. 16. f. 8. 1812. 
Erect perennial, 1 to 1.5 m tall, with elongate leaves mostly aggre- 
gate at the base and reaching beyond the base of the inflorescence; 
blades 1 to 1.5 cm wide; raceme slender, 30 to 50 cm long, the axis 
rather firm, the short-pediceled slender spikelets appressed, about 
3 cm long, excluding the slender awns and curled stigmas (fig. 30). 
Rich woods, Veracruz and Trinidad to Brazil. ‘“Carolina’’, the 
locality given with the original description, isan error. Beauvois also 
mentions Guiana. 
TRINIDAD: Caparo Forest, Broadway 4932. Tabaquite, Hitchcock 
10122. Without locality, Bot. Gard. Herb. 3367; Crueger. 
22. ORTHOCLADA Beauyv., Ess. Agrost. 69. pl. 14. f.9. 1812 
Spikelets articulated below the glumes, 1-flowered with a prolonga- 
tion of the rachilla, or 2-flowered, the florets distant; glumes and 
lemmas acuminate. A broad-leaved perennial with diffuse panicle. 
1. Orthoclada laxa (L. Rich.) Beauv., Ess. Agrost. 70, 149,168. 1812. 
more acd eich, Act, Soc, Hist) Nate)Paris) 1; 106. 1792. 
Cayenne. 
Pamcum rarvflorum Lam., Encycl. 4: 746. 1798. Cayenne. 
Orthoclada rariflora Beauv., Ess. Agrost. 70. pl. 14. f. 9. 1812. 
Stoloniferous perennial; flowering culms ascending, leafy, simple, 
commonly 1 m long; blades slender-petioled, lanceolate, mostly 12 
to 15 cm long, about 2.5 cm wide; panicle large, as broad as long, the 
long, slender, naked branches and capillary branchlets at first erect, 
finally stiffly divergent, bearing 1 to few spikelets at the extremities; 
glumes narrow, acute, 4 and 5 mm long; lemmas 6 to 7 mm long, 
acuminate or short-awned (fig. 31). 
Rich woods, southern Mexico to Brazil; also in Guadeloupe and 
Trinidad. 
