MANUAL OF THE GRASSES OF THE WEST INDIES Soi 
belong to this form, though there is no definite line between these 
and the usual form of C. sagraeana. 
Cusa: Triscornia, Hitchcock 241. Mariel, Hkman 12837. Cajo- 
babo, Léon 12320. 
Haiti: Port-de-Pai, Leonard 11051. Ennery, Leonard 8835. 
Port-au-Prince, Hkman H 2107. Miragoane, Ekman H 9042. 
Dominican Repusuic: Vasquez, Ekman H 138128. Without 
locality, Wright, Parry, and Brummel 610. 
8. Chloris cubensis Hitche. and Ekman, sp. nov.* 
Perennial; culms erect or spreading at base, sometimes decumbent 
and rooting, occasionally forming stolons, glabrous, more or less 
compressed, 50 to 75 cm tall; sheaths glabrous, somewhat villous at 
the throat, the basal usually rather strongly compressed and keeled, 
mostly shorter than the internodes; ligule a ciliate membrane about 
0.3 mm long; blades flat or folded, scaberulous and sometimes sparsely 
villous on the upper surface especially at the base, glabrous beneath, 
mostly 5 to 10 cm long, the basal sometimes elongate, the upper 
reduced, 1 to 2 or rarely 3 mm wide; racemes usually 5 to 7, distant, 
5 to 7 cm long, ascending; spikelets rather closely imbricate, appressed 
or ascending, pale or purplish; glumes narrow, the first about 2 mm 
long, the second about 3 mm long; fertile lbomma about 3 mm long, 
pilose at base, ciliate on the upper half of the margins, the hairs as 
much as 1 mm long, sometimes sparsely pilose along the middle of the 
keel, the awn from about 0.5 mm below the apex, 1 to 2 cm long, 
capillary, slightly flexuous; rudiment about 1.5 mm long, oblong, 
the awn shorter than that of the fertile floret. 
Type in the United States National Herbarium, no. 1387446, 
collected at Gamboa, prov. Oriente, Cuba, August Yow 1922, by 
E. L. Ekman (no. 14960). 
In the Grasses of the West Indies * this species was referred to 
C. orthonoton Doeil of Brazil which is strongly stoloniferous, with 
wider lemmas and shorter awns. The smaller specimens have been 
referred to C. sagraeana, which has more slender culms, and shorter, 
finally reflexed spikes. 
Dry open ground, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, and Leeward Islands. 
Cuspa: Herradura, Hitchcock 248. Vicinity of Habana, Léon 859, 
860, 12456; Hkman 13469. Gamboa, Hkman 14960. Holguin, 
Ekman in 1922. 
Jamaica: Cockpit (Vere), Harris 12462. 
Haiti: Tortuga Island, Leonard 12538; Ekman H 4058. 
Lrrwarp Isitanps: Antigua, Box 35. 
9. Chloris arenaria Hitchc. and Ekman, sp. nov.*’ 
Chloris eleusinoides var. vestita Greenm., in Combs, Acad. Sci. St. 
Louis Trans. 7: 477. 1897. Cuba, Combs 631. 
Perennial; culms cespitose, erect or somewhat geniculate at base,. 
glabrous, 30 to 50 cm tall; sheaths compressed- _keeled, puberulent; 
ligule a ciliate membrane about 0.5 mm long; blades’ firm, flat or 
folded, puberulent, the basal 5 to 10 cm long, the culm blades ‘shorter, 
35 A C. sagraeana differt planta robustiore spicis longioribus crassioribus ascendentibus, lemmate ad. 
basin et supra ad margines pilosociliato, rudimento majore. 
36 Contrib. U. S. Natl. Herb. 18: 376. 1917. 
37 Perennis; culmi erecti glabri 30-50 cm alti; vaginae laminaeque puberulae, vaginis compressis, laminis 
planis vel conduplicatis 5-10 em longis 1-2 mm latis; racemi 5-6 digitati ascendentes vel denique reflexi 
3-6 cm longi; spiculae imbricatae; glumae acuminatae, prima 3 mm longa, secunda 5 mm longa; lemma. 
fertile 3.5 mm longum, callo puberulo, marginibus superne pilosociliatis; arista 1.5-2.4 em longa; rudimen- 
tum anguste oblongum 2 mm longum, arista 1-2 cm longa. 
