108 MISC. PUBLICATION 243, U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
distant, 8 to 10 mm long, 6- to 7-flowered; lemmas about 5 mm long, 
densely pilose on the lower part of the nerves (fig. 67). 
Higher mountains of Hispaniola. 
Hartt: Pétionville, Ekman H 1352,H 1576. Badeau, Ekman H 7777. 
Furcy, Leonard 4751. Massif de la Selle, Ekman H 1576, H 3075. 
Dominican Repustic: San José de Ocoa, Ekman H 11874. 
45. GOUINIA Fourn., Mex. Pl. 2: 103. 1886 
Spikelets, few-flowered, short-pedicellate, appressed, in slender 
elongate racemes, these racemosely arranged; glumes and lemmas 
keeled, the lemmas densely villous on the nerves, awned, the upper- 
most much reduced but awned. Erect or ascending perennials with 
linear blades and terminal panicles of slender racemes. 
Biladesalitot Zeman wiaGeids 4h henley CRN IVE Eyres MOP ee Meeps ea 1. G. GRACILIS. 
Blades *oatowlZannm wide tee en swing Oks ease ye oie Ly pO SEED So eae 2. G. VIRGATA. 
FIGURE 67.—Lep- FIGURE 68.—Gouinia 
tochloa monticola. gracilis. Glumes and 
Spikelet and floret, floret, X 5 (type). 
X 5 (type). 
1. Gouinia gracilis Ekman; Swallen, Amer. Jour. Bot. 22: 33. f. 1. 
1935. Cuba, Ekman in 1922. 
Culms slender, branching, sprawling or leaning, 70 cm long or 
more; blades flat or usually involute, as much as 14 cm long, not more 
than 2 mm wide; panicles 5 to 15 cm long, the branches stiffiy spread- 
ing or reflexed, the lower as much as 4.5 cm long; spikelets 2- or 
3-flowered, short-pedicellate, stiffly and abruptly spreading or 
reflexed; lemmas 4 to 6 mm long, the awn 5 to 9 mm long (fig. 68). 
Thickets, Cuba. 
Cupa: Holguin, Ekman in 1922, 3255. Mendoza, Hkman 11486. 
2. Gouinia virgata (Presl) Scribn., U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Agrost. 
Bull. 4: 10. 1897. 
Bromus virgatus Presl, Rel. Haenk. 1: 263. 1830. Mexico. 
Festuca laxiflora A. Rich., in Sagra, Hist. Cuba 11: 318. 1850. 
Habana, Cuba. 
