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Babujal, Ekman 16954. Soledad, Hitchcock 23329. Baragua, Hitch- 
cock 23357, 23377, 23384. Pitajones; Shajer, 12225, ) Vrmidads 
Ekman 13975. Sancti Spiritus, Sergius 2569. Iron mine, south of 
Guara, Hitchcock 23412, 23427. 
JAMAICA: Kwarton, Hitchcock 9458 (Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 652). 
Troy, Hitchcock 9810. New Forest, Hitchcock 9847. Montego Bay, 
Hitchcock 9695. Inverness, Harris 12727. Lititz, Harris 12434, 
12697. Alligator Pond, Hitchcock 9823. 
Haiti: Roche, Ekman H 723. 
Dominican Rerusuic: Guayubin, Abboit 916. El Maniclito, 
Ekman H 11810. 
7. Chioris sagraeana A. Rich., in Sagra, Hist. Cuba 11:315. 1850. 
Cuba, Ramon de la Sagra. 
Chloris eleusinoides Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 539. 1864. Jamaica 
and Antigua. 
Chloris morales-coelloi1 Léon, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 53: 458. 1926. 
Cuba, Léon 12320. 
Perennial; culms mostly slender, cespitose, erect or ascending from 
a geniculate base, 20 to 60 cm tall; blades flat or folded, 1 to 2 mm 
wide, glabrous, the sheaths compressed; spikes mostly 3 to 6, some- 
times more, mostly 3 to 5 cm long; spikelets imbricate; glumes nar- 
row, acuminate, 2 and 3 mm long; lemma about 3 mm long, narrow, 
minutely pilose on the margins above and on the callus, the awn 
about 1 cm long, purplish, flexuous; rudiment small, narrow, usually 
enclosed in the margins of the lemma, the awn somewhat shorter 
than that of the lemma. 
Dry or rocky soil, West Indies. 
Chloris ekmanui, C’. sagraeana, and C. cubensis form a polymorphous 
eroup. Most of the specimens fall into one of the three species, but 
there are a few intermediate specimens. 
BauwamMas: Nassau, Curtiss 81. Without locality, Geogr. Soc. 
Baltimore 97 in part. 
Cupa: Guanabacoa, Léon 857; Hitchcock 23245. Vicinity of 
Habana, Léon 1965, 2560, 4783, 4787, 4807, 12453, 12454, 12455; 
Ekman 389; Baker in 1907; Ausovin 779; Hitchcock 242. Guanta- 
namo, Hioram 1379. Monte Verde, Wri ight 1549. Eastern Cuba, 
Wright 1548, 3818. 
Jamaica: Ashley Hall, Harris 12738. Savanna-la-Mar, Hitchcock 
9890 (Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 653). . 
Haiti: Grande Cayemite, Hyerdam 336. Gros-Morne, Leonard 
9839. Dutreuil, Ekman H 10748. Cabaret, Leonard 12067. Jean 
Rabel, Leonard 12552, 13804. Modle-St.-Nicolas, Leonard 13255. 
Tortuga Island, Ekman H 4058, H 4171. Pétionville, Leonard 4984. 
Pignon, Cook, Scofield, and Doyle 138. 
Domintcan REPusLic: Mao, Abboti 1042. 
LEEWARD ISLANDs: Barbuda, Danforth 3. Antigua, Box 122; 
Wullschlaegel. Guadeloupe, Duss 4110. 
WINDWARD IsuANpDs: Barbados, Hitchcock 16499. 
A robust form has been called C. morales-coelloi Léon, the type of 
which is Léon 12320, from Cajobabo, southern Baracoa region, Cuba. 
It resembles C. cubensis but is not pilose at base and lacks the cilia 
on the upper part of the margins of the lemma. Also the rudiment 
is smaller, as in C. sagraeana. The following specimens appear to 
