98 MISC. PUBLICATION 243, U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
4846. San Diego de los Bafios, Léon 4845. Herradura, Hitchcock oar 
499; Hkman 17749. San Julidn, Ekman 11107. Las Pozas, Hkman 
12737. La Grifa, Ekman 11246. Chirigota, Léon 7444, 7454; Wright 
3431. Guanabacoa, Baker and Hasselbring 7208; Hitchcock 231, 23220: 
Léon 875, 2641, 4646, 1718, 5605, 5606. Baragud, Hitchcock 23373. 
Manacas, Léon 5830, 5863, 5874. Motembo, Léon 11338, 11340, 
11342; Kkman 16816a. Placetas del Sur, Léon 8179. Manajanabo,; 
Léon 5276. Camagiiey, Ekman in 1922 (Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 792). 
Woodfred, Shafer 2990, 3080. Cajobabo, Léon 12316. Guara, Hitch- 
cock 23425, 23426. Holguin, Ekman 15719. Loma Menqura, Shafer 
3858. Without locality, Wright 3430. Isla de Pinos, Britton and 
“ilson 15369. 
Jamatca: Ashley Hall, Harris 12734. Lititz Savanna, Harris 
12433. New Forest, Hitchcock 9853 (Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 793). 
Harri: Acul-Samedi, HKkman H 9908. St. Michel de ]’Atalaye, 
Ekman H 9402. 
Dominican Repusuic: Moncioén, Hkman H 12634. 
Pusrro Rico: Mayaguez, Britton, Cowell, and Brown 4358. Boque- 
ron, Chase 6508. 
TRIBE 6. ZOYSIEAE 
41) LEPTOTEHRIUM Kunth, Rev) Gram: 156.1829 
Spikelets solitary; glumes much exceeding the single minute floret, 
the tips diverging, the first subulate, not at all clasping, the second 
laterally compressed above; pedicel falling with the spikelet, forming a 
pointed callus. Densely tufted perennial with slender rigid short- 
jointed culms branching toward the summit, short stiff divergent 
blades, and partially included spikes of narrow spikelets along a slen- 
der axis. 
1. Leptothrium rigidum Kunth, Rév., Gram. 1: 156. 1829. ‘‘Amer- 
ica calidior.”’ 
Culms 30 to 40 cm tall; blades 1 to 3 cm long; spikes 5 to 10 cm long, 
fiexuous; spikelets about 8 mm long, at first erect, becoming divergent 
or refiexed (fig. 57). : 
In sand along the seacoast, Jamaica, Venezuela, and Santa Marta, 
Colombia. 
JAMAICA: Palisadoes, Port Royal, Mitchcock 9753; Harris (Amer. 
Gr. Nat. Herb. 287) 11357; Britton and Hollick 1729. 
42, ANTHEPHORA Schreb., Beschr. Gras. 2: 105. pl. 44. 1810 
Spikelets in clusters of 4, the indurate first glumes united at base, 
forming a pitcher-shaped pseudo-involucre, the clusters subsessile and 
erect on a slender flexuous continuous axis; glumes rigid, acute, or 
produced into short awns. Ours annual with flat blades and narrow 
spikes. 
1. Anthephora hermaphrodita (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 759. 
1891. : 
Tripsacum hermaphroditum L., Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 2: 1261. 1759. 
Jamaica. i ; i 
Anthephora elegans Schreb., Beschr. Gras. 2: 105. 1810. Jamaica. 
