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the uppermost 5 to 10 mm long, the basal bladesas much as 3 mm wide, 
but mostly much narrower; racemes mostly 5 or 6, digitate, pubescent 
at base, ascending or finally reflexed, 3 to 6 cm long, stramineous; 
spikelets imbricate, appressed; glumes narrow, acuminate, the first 
3 mm long, the second 5 mm long; fertile lemma 3.5 mm long, includ- 
ing the narrow, puberulent callus, pilose-ciliate along the upper part 
of the margins, the awn about 1.5 to 2.5 cm long; rudiment narrowly 
eens, 2 mm long, the awn somewhat shorter than that of the fertile 
emma. 
Type in the United States National Herbarium, no. 1387449, 
collected in pinelands on white sand, La Grifa, prov. Pinar del Rio, 
June 14, 1920, by E. L. 
Ekman (no. 11253). 
The species is allied 
to C. sagraeana from 
which it differs in the 
puberulent foliage, the 
longer glumes and awns, 
and in the firm erect 
innovations. 
Pinelands, Cuba. 
Cupa: ia *Grittar 
Ekman 11252, 11253: 
Wright 3819. Cienfue- 
cos, Combs 631. 
10. Chloris polydactyla 
(L.) Swartz, Prodr. 
Veg. Ind. Oce..26: 
1788. 
Andropogon barbatus 
La, ‘Syst.eNatieyved: 
LOde 2ZeAsGousihresoe 
Jamaica. 
Andropogon polydac- 
tylon L., Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 
1488. 1763. Jamaica. 
Chloris barbata Nash, 
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 
25:443. 1898. Not. 
barbata Swartz, 1797 
(this based aug Andro- 
; ogon barbatus L., 1771 
netic cs ci ye ae from the East Indies). 
Culms rather stout, 
commonly more than 1 m tall; blades about 1 cm wide; spikes 5 to 
10, pale, usually 8 to 10 cm long, strongly flexuous; spikelets closely 
imbricate, silky; first lemma about 2.5 mm long; broad, pubescent on 
the keel, long-ciliate on the margins, the hairs 2 mm long, the awn 
about as long as the lemma; second lemma shorter and narrower than 
the first, the awn about 2 mm long (fig. 81). 
Savannas and grassy slopes, Florida and the West Indies to Brazil. 
Banamas: New Providence, Curtiss 80; Geogr. Soc. Baltimore 262. 
JAMAICA: Ipswich, Mazon and Killip 1492; Hitchcock 9622. Inver- 
ness, Harris 12743. Lucea, Hitchcock in 1891. Ewarton, Hitchcock 
