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LEEWARD IstaNnps: Antigua, Wullschlaegel; Box 78. 
WINDWARD IsLANDs: Barbados, Freeman 5024; Hitchcock 16508. 
Trinipap: Cedros, Broadway 4919; Hitchcock 10163. 
7. Sporobolus domingensis (Trin.) Kunth, Rév. Gram. 1: Sup. 
XVII. 1830. | 
Vilfa domingensis Trin., in Spreng., Neu. Entd. 2: 59. 1821. 
Santo Domingo. 
Agrostis domingensis Schult., Mant. 3 (Add. 1): 570. 1827. 
Sporobolus inordinatus Mez, Repert. Sp. Nov. Fedde 17: 294. 1921. 
Cuba, Ramon de la Sagra. 
Resembling S. pyramidatus; culms stouter, 30 to 80 em tall; pan- 
icles contracted, densely flowered, the branches appressed, the lower 
sometimes ascending; spikelets 2 mm long or sometimes somewhat 
less (fig. 49). 
Sandy or alkaline soil, Bahamas and Greater Antilles; southern 
Florida. 
BaHamas: New Providence, Britton and 
Brace 336. Anguilla Isles, Wilson 8001. Sol- 
diers Road, Geogr. Soc. Baltimore 260. Fortune 
Island, Hitchcock in 1890. 
Cupa: Habana, Ekman in 1921. Caiba- 
rién, Fernando 1, 307. Cienfuegos Bay, 
Britton and Wilson 5758. Cayo Sabinal, 
Ekman 15470. Santa Lucea, Shafer 972. 
Cayo Guajaba, Shafer 691. Guantanamo 
Bay, Hioram 2,5; Britton 2125. Manzanillo, 
Shafer 12344. 
Jamaica: Montego Bay, Ridley 110. 
Haiti: Cabaret, Leonard 11997, 11997a. 
Sources Puantes, Ekman H 2158. Gonaive  Ficure 49.—Sporobolus domingen- 
Island, Leonard5203. TortugaIsland,Leonard 38 Pat eae ss 
11422, 15318, 15319. 
8. Sporobolus cubensis Hitchc., Contrib. U. S. Natl. Herb. 12: 237. 
1909. Isla de Pinos, Curtiss 392. 
Culms densely tufted, erect, 30 to 50 cm tall, the mnovations 
numerous, lower sheaths felty-ciliate; blades flat or involute, firm 
and rather stiff, 10 to 15 cm long, 1 to 2 mm wide, ciliate near base; 
panicles narrowly pyramidal, erect, 10 to 15 cm long, usually bronze- 
green, the branches in indistinct verticils, spreading or the lower 
finally reflexed, 2 to 3 cm long; spikelets about 4 mm long, acute, 
somewhat secund along the lower side of the branches, the lateral 
pedicels about 0.5 mm long; first glume gradually acute, a littie more 
than half as long as the spikelet, the second as long as the lemma. 
The basal part of the tuft usually shows the effect of fire burning off 
the upper part. 
Sandy barrens, Cuba to Puerto Rico; British Guiana and Costa 
Rica to Bolivia. 
Cupa: Handébana, Wright 3427. Herradura, Hkman in 1922; 
Hitchcock 237. Isla de Pinos, Ekman 12541; Britton and Wilson 
14141, 14422, 14975; Curtiss 392. 
Haiti: Maissade, Hkman H 3252. 
Dominican ReEpusuic: Cuenca, Ekman H 13338. 
Purrto Rico: Mayaguez, Heller 4590. 
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