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Ekman 573, 1279. 10904. Batabané, Léon 13709. San Miguel de 
los Bafios, Léon 8856. Sabana de Motembo, Léon 9380, 11346. 
2. Eriochlea ekmanii Hitchc., sp. nov.® 
Perennial; culms slender, tufted, decumbent at base, branching, 
15 to 60 cm tall, the nodes puberulent; sheaths puberulent, especialiy 
at the margins and around the throat and collar; ligule a row of 
stiff hairs 0.5 to 1 mm long; blades flat or somewhat involute, more 
or less puberulent, 3 to 15 cm long, 1 to 3 mm wide; panicle con- 
tracted, 3 to 8 cm long, the axis slender, scabrous and somewhat 
puberulent; racemes mostly 2 to 6, appressed or ascending, 1 to 3 
cm long, rather distant on the axis, the rachis slender, scaberulous; 
spikelets mostly solitary, sometimes in pairs, rather loosely arranged, 
2.5 to 3 mm long, 0.8 to 1 mm wide, the pedicels 0.3 to 0.5 mm long, 
often bearing 1 or 2 stiff hairs; second glume and sterile lemma 
equal, rather sparsely appressed-pilose, acuminate or awn-tipped; 
fertile lemma 1.8 to 2 mm long, apiculate or with an awn as much 
as 0.2 mm long. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 1385555, collected in 
savannas near Mir, prov. Oriente, Cuba, August 22, 1916, by Dr. 
EK. L. Ekman (no. 7509). 
The species differs from /. setosa in the flat blades and the apiculate 
or short-awned fertile lemma. Jn the Grasses of the West Indies * 
it was referred to Hriochloa ramosa (Retz.) Kuntze, which differs in 
the stouter and taller culms, broader blades, larger panicles, paired 
spikelets, and in the usually naked base of the racemes. 
Cusa: Tiffin (prov. Camagiey), Ekman 15391. Adelaida, Léon 
15804. Zaza de Tunas (prov. Santa Clara), Léon 852. Mir, Ek- 
man 7509. Without locality, Wright.3886. 
3. Eriochioa boxiana Hitchc., in Swallen, Carneg. Inst. Wash. Publ. 
436: 339. 1934. Antigua, Bor 43. 
Annual; culms branching, decumbent and spreading at base, root- 
ing at the lower nodes, 30 to 40 cm tall, glabrous, minutely puberulent 
at the nodes; blades flat, ascending, glabrous beneath, puberulent on 
the upper surface, 5 to 12 cm long, 2 to 3 mm wide, the apex long- 
acuminate; panicle contracted, 7 to 11 cm long, the racemes numer- 
ous; racemes appressed or ascending, overlapping, 1.5 to 2 cm long; 
spikelets in pairs, imbricate; lanceolate-acuminate, 4.5 to 5 mm long, 
including the awn-tip, appressed pilose on the lower two-thirds, the 
tip minutely scaberulous, the pedicels about 0.5 mm long, bearing 
a few slender hairs; basal ring not prominent, pale, the first glume 
wanting; second glume extending into an awn nearly 1 mm long; 
sterile lemma smaller and a little shorter than the glume, acuminate- 
tipped rather than awned; fertile lemma elliptic-oblong, tipped with 
an awn 0.5 mm long (fig. 116). 
Damp or swampy open land, Antigua, Yucatan, and Colombia. 
The species is named for Harold E. Box, entomologist at the Antigua 
53 Perennis; culmi tenues caespitosi erecti, basi decumbentes glabri 20-60 cm alti; nodis puberulis; vaginae 
puberulae, collo pubescente; laminae planae 5-15 em longae 1-3 mm latae puberulae acuminatae; panicula 
contracta 3-8 cm longa, axi scabro tenue; racemi 2-6 appressi 1-3 ecm longi, a basi floriferi, rachi scabra; 
spiculae plerumque solitariae 2.5-3 mm longae 0.8-1 mm latae, pedicellis 0.3-0.5 mm longis; eluma secunda 
mucronata, arista usque ad 0.2 mm longa; lemma fertile 1.8-2 mm longum, arista usque ad 0.2 mm longa. 
5 Contrib. U. S. Natl. Herb. 18: 298. 1917. 
