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appressed-pubescent on the internerves, awned, the awn of the 
lower florets of the spikelet 1 to 3 mm long (fig. 66). 
Open ground and grassy banks, Florida, Mexico, and the West 
Indies. 
Bauwamas: New Providence, Hitchcock in 1890. Eleuthera, Mitch- 
cock in 1890. 
Cupa: Habana, Himan 419a, 13122. Sancti Spiritus, Léon 863b. 
San Antonio, Hggers 5349. Santiago de Cuba, Léon 862, 865, 9767. 
Without locality, Wright 3436. ; 
Jamaica: Hope Gardens, Ridley 120, 122. Kingston, Hitchcock 
9253. Halls Delight, Harris 11261. Spanish Town, Ridley 128. 
Guava Ridge, Harris 11291, 11367, 11601. Barican, Hitchcock 9563. 
Ewarton, Hitchcock 9455. Alligator Pond, Hitchcock 9836; Harris 
12447. Kast of Hope, Harris 12346. Lititz, Harris 11713, 11718. 
Haiti: Gonaive Island, Leonard 3106, 3300, 5123, 5145. Port-au- 
Prince, Ekman H 1986. St. Marc, Leonard 2946. Tortuga Island, 
Leonard 15466. Bourdarie, Buch 1209. 
Dominican Repusuic: Las Salinas, Fuertes 1428. Rincon, Muertes: 
1283. Santiago, Hkman H 16042. 
FIGURE 66.—Lepiochioa domingensis. Panicle, X 1; floret, X 10 (Hitchcock 10055). 
Lepnwarp Isuanps: St. Kitts, Bor 166. Antigua, Wullschlaegel. 
Trinrpap: Chacachacare, Hitchcock 10055 (Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 
671). Mona Island, Broadway 5900. Port-of-Spain, Hitchcock 9994, 
10196; Britton and Hazen 1689. 
8. Leptochloa longa Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 538. 1864. Trinidad. 
Perennial; culms about 1.5 m tall, decumbent at base; blades 1.5 
to 2.5 cm wide, the collar pilose; racemes several, very slender, 
spreading, loosely flowered, somewhat fascicled, 15 to 20 cm long; 
spikelets about 3-flowered; lemmas about 3 mm long, the awn about 
as long as the lemma or a little longer. 
Rich shady banks, Trinidad. 
Trinrpap: Manzanilla, Hitchcock 10377. San Fernando, Hitch- 
cock 10082 (Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 672). Without locality, Bot. Gard. 
Herb. 3359; Crueger. 
9. Leptochloa monticola Chase, Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci. 17: 73. f. 2. 
1927. Haiti, Leonard 4751. 
Perennial; culms densely tufted, erect, rigid, about 1 m tall; blades 
involute, 20 to 30 cm long, 2 to 6 mm wide (when flattened); panicle 
about 30 cm long, 8 cm wide, the numerous racemes approximate, 
stiffly ascending, the middle ones about 10 cm long; spikelets rather 
