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FIGURE 39.—A, Danthonia domingensis. Panicle, X 1; floret, X 5 (Ekman 12830). 3B, D. obdtorta. 
Spikelet, < 1; floret, X 5 (type). 
as long, the main awn spreading, the terminal segment 15 to 17 mm 
long (fig. 39, B). 
Closely related to Danthonia domingensis, but the spikelets much 
larger, the blades not widened at base, bent forward with a twist, a 
character found in some grasses of windswept areas, like high paramos. 
The specific name refers to this twisted base. 
Type in the United States National Herbarium, no. 1385638, col- 
lected near the highest peak of Morne de la Selle, 2,700 m, Gauthier, 
Massif de la Selle, Haiti, February 1, 1925, by Erik L. Ekman (no. 
H 3164). . 
An immature specimen was collected at Valle Nuevo, prov. La 
Vega, Dominican Republic, Ekman H 138748. 
TRIBE 5. AGROSTIDEAE 
34. CALAMAGROSTIS Adans.; Roth, Tent. Fl. Germ. 1:33. 1788. 
REEDGRASS 
Spikelets 1-flowered, the rachilla disarticulating above the glumes, 
usually prolonged behind the palea as a short, commonly hairy bristle; 
glumes about equal, acute or acuminate; lemma shorter and usually 
more delicate than the glumes, the callus bearing a tuft of hairs which 
are often copious and as long as the lemma, awned from the back, 
