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5. Eriochloa polystachya H.B.K., Nov. Gen. et Sp. 1: 95. pl. 31. 
1815. Ecuador. MALOSILLA. 
Monachne subglabra Nash, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 30: 374. 1903. 
Puerto Rico, Heller 380. 
Eriochloa punctata var. subglabra Urban, Symb. Antill. 4: 85. 
1903. 
Eriochloa subglabra Hitche., Contrib. U. 8S. Natl. Herb. 12: 208. 
1909. 
A stoloniferous perennial with erect flowering culms 1 to 2 m tall, 
bearded nodes, flat spreading blades, and terminal panicles of several 
to many loosely ascending or spreading branches, the spikelets usually 
in pairs, first glume developed as a minute broad loose membrane. 
Swamps, ditches, and moist ground, West Indies to Brazil and 
Ecuador. <A good forage grass. In Puerto Rico this species is con- 
fused with Parad grass, which it resembles in habit, and the name 
“malojilla’”’ is applied to both. The two species are not infrequently 
found growing together. 
Cusa: Habana, Ekman 18298. 
JAMAICA: Savanna-la-Mar, Hitchcock 9859. 
Puerto Rico: Dorado, Britton and Brown 6683. Condado, Brit- 
ton and Brown 5769. Rio Piedras, Stevenson 2304; Chase 6360 (Amer. 
Gr. Nat. Herb. 302); Johnston 10. Mayaguez, Holm 56; Chase 6254, 
6554; Britton 2366. Catano, Britton 8829. Lecheria, Goll 23. 
Pueblo Viejo, Hioram 134. Bayamon, Hioram 327; Sintenis 1228. 
Rio Canas, Britton 9336. Ponce, Britton and Brown 5513. Santurce, 
Chase 6350. Arecibo, Chase 6445. Vega Baja, Chase 6795. Sierra 
Luquillo, Chase 6714. Fajardo, Chase 6656; Britton and Shafer 1523. 
Utuado, Chase 6458. 
LEEWARD Isuanps: Guadeloupe, Hitchcock 16400. 
TRINIDAD: Port-of-Spain, Hitchcock 9951, 9970, 10332. Aripo 
Savanna, Hitchcock 10071. St. Anns, Broadway 7784. 
76. BRACHIARIA Griseb., in Ledeb., Fl. Ross. 4: 469. 1853. 
Spikelets dorsally compressed, solitary, rarely in pairs, subsessile in 
two rows on one side of a 3-angled, sometimes narrowly winged rachis, 
the first glume turned tow ard the axis; second glume and sterile 
lemma about equal, 5- to 7-nerved, the lemma enclosing a hyaline 
palea and sometimes a staminate "flow er; fertile lemma indurate, 
usually papillose-rugose, the margins inrolled, the apex rarely mucro- 
nate or bearing a short awn. Annuals or perennials with linear 
blades and several seatag or appressed racemes along a common 
axis. 
Spuseletse? mm: long, pubescent_— 2-2 2 2 be 2. 3B. ERUCAEFORMIS. 
Spikelets 4amimrionewlabrous. 3.4) koe Se 1. B. EXTENSA. 
1. Brachiaria extensa Chase, Contrib. U. S. Natl. Herb. 28: 240. 
1929. Based on Paspalum platyphyllum Griseb. 
Paspalum platyphyllum Griseb., Cat. Pl. Cub. 230. 1866. Not 
P. platyphyllum Schult. 1827. Cuba, Wright 3441. 
Panicum platyphyllum Munro; W. right, An. Acad. Cien. Habana 
8: 206-1871. 
Brachiaria platyphylla Nash., in Small, Fl. Southeast. U.S. 81 
1903. 
Glabrous; culms ascending from a creeping base, rather freely 
branching; blades flat, 5 to 10 cm long, about 1 cm wide; inflorescence 
