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_ Open dry ground, West Indies and Central America to Brazil. 
Cusa: Habana, Léon 780, 890, 4725, 4789; Curtiss 546 (in part). 
La Gloria, Shafer 244. Soledad, Hitchcock 23324. CGuara, Hitchcock 
23395. Isla de Pinos, Ekman 11789. Without locality, Wright 3816. 
JAMAICA: Vicinity of Kingston, Harris 11369, 11372, 11500, 12674; 
Hitchcock 9743, 9744; Ridley 76,112. Alligator Pond, Hitchcock 9824. 
Savanna-la-Mar, Hitchcock 9860. Black River, Hitchcock 4633 (Amer. 
Gr. Nat. Herb. 380). Mount Charles, Harris 11559. Mount Hybla, 
Harris 11443. Musgrave Road, Harris 11481. Mount Faraway, 
Harris 11451. Robertsfield, 
Harris 11394. Montego Bay, 
Hitcheock 9862. Gordon Town, 
Hart 559. 
Hartt: St. Michel de ]’Atalaye, 
Leonard 7205. Ennery, Leonard 
9476. Gros-Morne, Leonard 
9865. Etroite, Leonard 3403. 
Port-au-Prince, Kkman H 2188. 
St. Marc, Ekman H 6645. 
DomrnicaN ReEpustic: Rin- 
con, Fuertes 1376. Maniel de 
Ocoa, Tuerckherm 3616. 
Pusrrto Rico: Coamo Springs, 
Chase 6539. Guayama, Chase 
6754. Fajardo, Chase 6662. 
Vieques Island, Chase 6666; 
Shafer 2501. 
VIRGIN IsLANDs: St. Jan, 
Britton and Shafer 280, 633. St. 
Thomas, Eggers in 1876. St. 
Croix, Thompson 616; Ricksecker 
78. Virgin Gorda, Fishlock 274. 
LEEWARD IsLanps: Antigua, 
Box 117; Wullschlaegel 619. 
Guadeloupe, Duss 3160. Dom- 
inica, Jones 64. 
WinpwarpD ISLANDS: 
serrat, Shafer 215. Martinique, 
Duss 1326. Grenada, Broadway 217, 1670; Elliott 138; Hitchcock 17666. 
Tospaco: Broadway 4385; Hitchcock 10215; Eggers 5650. 
4, Bouteloua heterostega (Trin.) Griffiths, Contrib. U. S. Natl. Herb. 
14:414. 1912. 
Reterosteca juncifolia Desv., Nouv. Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris 2: 188. 
1810. Antilles. Not Bouteloua qguncifolia Lag., 1816. 
Hutriana heterostega Trin., Gram. Unifl. 242. 1824. Antilles. 
Bouteloua humboldtiana Griseb., Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 8: 
532. 1862. Cuba, Wright 734, 739. 
Bouteloua porphyrantha Wright, Anal. Acad. Cienc. Habana 8: 
201...1871. Cuba, Wright*734, 739, 3816. 
Heterosteca rhadina Nash, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 30: 386. 1903. 
Puerto Rico, Heller 6057. 
Perennial; culms usually widely spreading or leaning, 30 to 50 cm 
long or sometimes longer: blades flat or involute, filiform or as,much 
FIGURE 87.—Bouteloua americana. Plant, X %; 
Mont- spikelet, X 5 (Harris 11451). 
