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Hartt: Anse-a-Pitre, Ekman H 6999. Jean Rabel, Leonard 12581, 
13797. 
Dominican ReEpusBuic: Las Salinas, Fuertes 1421. 
5. Chloris cruciata (L.) Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 25. 1788. 
Agrostis cruciata Iu., Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 2: 893. 1759. Jamaica. 
Chloris humboldtiana Steud., Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 205. 1854. Cuba. 
Chloris brevigluma Wright, An. Acad. Cien. Habana 8: 200. 1871. 
Cuba, Wright 1848 [error for 1548] in part. 
Perennial but sometimes appearing to be annual; culms delicate, 
filiform, densely tufted, erect or geniculate at base, sometimes strag- 
eling, branching from the lower nodes, 10 to 30 cm tall; blades flat 
or usually folded or involute, slender, soft, mostly less than 5 cm long, 
the uppermost sometimes less than 1 cm long; spikes usually 2 to 4, 
delicate, 1 to 3 cm long, finally widely spreading or somewhat reflexed; 
spikelets on distinct pedicels 0.2 to 0.5 mm long, finally horizontally 
spreading, pale, about 3 mm long; awns delicate, 5 to 10 mm long. 
Stony slopes, Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispaniola. 
Cupa: Guanabacéa, Curtiss 584; Ekman 279, 13547; Hitchcock 239, 
240, 23233; Léon 896; Wilson and Léon 11637. Habana, Léon 4786, 
11495, 11573. Handbana, Wright 1548. Western Cuba, Wright 1549. 
JAMAICA: Troy, Harris 12588, 12647. Yallahs Valley, Perkins 1481. 
Guava Ridge, Hart 680; Eggers 3724. Gordon Town, Hitchcock 9376; 
Hart 841. Ewarton, Hitchcock 9428. Red Hills, Hitchcock 9469. 
Stony Hill, Harris 11341. Clifton, Harris 11375. Mount Hybla, 
Harris 11393. Cold Spring Gap, Harris 11392. Alligator Pond, 
Hitchcock 9820. Kingston, Hitchcock 9276 (Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 
651). Ipswich, Hitchcock 9597. Arntully, Oreutt 2592. Farm Hill, 
Orcutt 3380, 3739. Halberstadt, Maron 8766. 
Harti: Between Cerca-Carivajal and Bois-Charles, on rocks in 
River Samand, Ekman H 6067. 
6. Chloris ekmanii Hitchc., sp. nov.* 
Perennial; culms densely tufted, slender or capillary, geniculate at 
base, 10 to 30 cm tall, rarely taller; blades slender, mostly folded or 
involute, usually less than 10 cm long and less than 1 mm wide when 
flat; spikes 2 to 5, mostly 3 or 4, slender, rather flexuous, usually 1.5 
to 3 cm long, finally horizontally spreading or reflexed; spikelets 
loosely overlapping, appressed; glumes narrow, acuminate, the second 
about as long as the lemma, the first about half as long; lemma 
narrow, about 3 mm long, shining, pale, minutely pilose along the 
margin near the summit, otherwise glabrous, the awn 7 to 8 mm long; 
rudiment narrow, about 1 mm long, mostly hidden by the fertile 
lemma, the awn shorter than that of the fertile floret. 
Type in the United States National Herbarium, no. 1387451, col- 
lected in pastures at Babujal, Jagiiey Grande, prov. Matanzas, Cuba, 
August 2, 1923, by E. L. Ekman (no. 16954). 
Dry grassy or rocky slopes or in pine woods, Cuba, Jamaica, and 
Hispaniola. ‘The species differs from C. sagraeana in the more delicate 
habit, the narrower blades, the shorter and more slender spikes, and 
the less imbricate spikelets. 
CuBA: Cajalbana, Léon 4855. La Grifa, Hkman 11252. Habana, 
Léon 287, 4788. Guanabacoa, Hitchcock 23229, 23240; Léon 856. 
34 A C. sagraeana differt plantis gracilioribus, laminis angustioribus, spicis tenuioribus brevibusque. 
