MANUAL OF THE GRASSES OF THE WEST INDIES Ze 
and Killip 1122. Abbey Green, Hitchcock 9365. Cold Spring Gap, 
Harris in 1912 (Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 400). Trafalgar Gap, Mazon 
8734. Morces Gap, Maxon and Killip 1064, 1291la. St. Helens Gap, 
Maxonand Killip 892. Vinegar Hill, Perkins 1088. Hardware Gap, 
Maxon and Killip 1265a. 
Haiti: Furey, Leonard 4266; Buch 1384. Pétionville, Ekman 
H 1188, H 1696, H 8001 (fertile). Hinche, Ekman H 6157. Port-au- 
Prince, Ekman H 5426, H 5887 (fertile). Morne Calumette, Ekman 
H 7310. Grand Bois, Ekman H 5718. Marigot, Ekman H 5985, 
H 8009 (fertile). 
Dominican Repustic: Bejucal, Ekman H 11751. Loma Nalga de 
Maco, Ekman H 6306. 
PuERTO Rico: Monte Alegrillo, Hess 116; Stevens 4755. 
5. NEUROLEPIS Meisn., Pl. Vas. Gen. 1: 426. 1836-1843; 
2: 325. 1836-1843. 
Gelaionia Kanth, Kev. Grams. 1: 139'"327" pl. 76, 18302 2 Not 
Platonia Mart., 1829. Planotia Munro, Linn. Soc. Trans. 26: 70. 
1868.) 
Spikelets with 2 glumes, 2 sterile lemmas and a terminal perfect 
floret, in elongate panicles; stamens 3. Culms erect, herbaceous or 
somewhat woody at base, the blades elongate, mostly more than 50 
em long and 6 em wide. 
1. Neurolepis virgata (Griseb.) Pilger, in Engl. and Prantl, Pflan- 
zenfam. Erganz. 2: 21. 1906. 
Platona virgata Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 530. 1864. Trinidad, 
Mount Teocuche, Crueger. 
Planotia virgata Munro, Linn. Soc. Trans. 26: 71. 1868. 
Culms herbaceous, tall, robust, leafy below, the thickish blades 
commonly more than 1 m long, about 5 cm wide, long-attenuate, the 
margins serrulate; panicle much exceeding the leaves, about 75 cm 
long and 2 cm thick, compact, tawny, the small spikelets densely 
crowded. 
Dense forests, mountains of Trinidad. 
TRINIDAD: Without locality, Bot. Gard. Herb. 3371. 
6. STREPTOCHAETA Schrad.; Nees, Agrost. Bras. 536. 1829 
Spikelets, 1-flowered, terete, disarticulating below the glumes; 
empty bractlets (probably glumes and sterile lemmas) 4, much shorter 
than the spikelet, more or less toothed; lemma coriaceous, gradually 
narrowed into a long much contorted awn; palea shorter than the 
lemma, bifid nearly to the base, coriaceous; inner bracts (lodicules) 
3, less coriaceous than the lemma, longer than the palea, imbricate; 
stamens 6, monadelphous, the tube about as long as the lemma; style 
1, as long as the stamen tube, the slender stigmas 3. Broad-leaved 
perennials with the spikelets in elongate spikes. 
