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panicles slender, few-flowered, the ascending branches distant; spike- 
lets appressed, on short slender pedicels, glabrous, 3 mm long (fig. 103). 
Stream borders in mountains or hills; Cuba, common in Oriente. 
Cusa: Sierra Maestra, valley of Rio Yara, Ekman in 1922 (Amer. 
Gr. Nat. Herb. 989). Nagua, Léon 10889. Sierra de Nipe, Hkman 
FIGURE 103.—Triscenia ovina. Plant, X 14; spikelet and floret, X 10 (Wright 756). 
10148. Baracoa, Ekman 4324. Piedra Gorda, Shafer 3668. Pinal 
Creek, Wright 756. aie 
Dr. Ekman states on one of his labels that the species is known 
also from Camagiiey and from Pinar del Rio, but the author has seen 
no specimens from there. 
