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oblong, the embryo on the side next to the fertile llomma. Slender 
tufted perennial with involute blades and narrow panicle. 
1. Reynaudia fiiiformis Kunth, Rév. Gram. 2: 195. 1830. Santo 
Domingo. 
Polypogon cubensis A. Rich., in Sagra, Hist. Cuba 11: 313. 1850. 
Cuba. 
Culms erect or ascending, 15 to 40 cm tall, the nodes bearded; 
blades involute, slender, mostly basal; panicle erect, oblong to linear, 
contracted and rather densely flowered, 3 to 6 cm long; spikelets 
compressed, 3 to 4mm long, the 
summit purple-tinged; first 
elume 3-nerved or obscurely 
5-nerved, a little more than half 
as long as the spikelet, the awn 
shghtly flexuous, purplish, 2 or 
3 times as long as the glume; 
second glume a little shorter 
than the spikelet, 5-nerved, 
hispid on the lower hali of the 
margins, the awn similar to that 
of the first glume; sterile lemma 
similar to the second glume, 
3-nerved, glabrous, the mid- 
nerve extended as a short mucro 
(fig. 101). 
Savannas, palm barrens, and 
brushy slopes, Greater Antilles. 
Cusa: Pinar del Rio, Hitchcock 
23260. Herradura, Hitchcock 
495; Léon 15950; Tracy 9070. 
Sumidero, Léon 3480. Guana- 
bacoa, Wilson. and Léon 11632; 
Léon 848. Baragud, Hitchcock 
23358. Motembo, signa a 
16815. Sagua la Grande, Léon 
14221. Eastern Cuba, Wright 
3428.% Western Cuba, Wright 
3428. Isla de Pinos, Curtiss 
371; Taylor 44; Britton and 
Wilson 15188. 
, Jamaica: Manchester, Wul- 
J 2.—Melinis minutiflora oar schlaegel 1370. 
aE abielati oc iaaMeltenke4 eye le Haitit: Mount Organisé, 
Ekman H 6230. 
Dominican Repusuic: Higiiey, Ekman H 12208. Santo Domingo, 
Wright, Parry, and Brummel 623. Guarabo, Abbott 2804. “Cotuy, 
Abbott 787a, 797. Pimentel, Abboti 663. 
67. MELINIS Beauv., Ess. Agrost. 54. pl. 11. f. 4. 1812 
Spikelets, 1-flowered with a sterile lemma below as in Panicum, 
disarticulating from the short slender pedicels; first glume very small, 
the second about equaling the sterile lemma, two-lobed at apex, 
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42 Part of Wright 3428 came from western Cuba and part from eastern Cuba (Contrib. U.S. Natl. Herb. 
12: 235. 1909). 
