186 MISC. PUBLICATION 243, U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
included at base of 1 to 4 rather distant finally spreading racemes 
with a flat rachis and sessile ovoid spikelets appearing to be in a single 
row (fig. 118). 
Moist sandy soil, Louisiana, Texas, Cuba; also Argentina. 
Cuna: Sumidero, Shafer 
13850; Shafer and Léon 
13637, 13724. Herradura, 
Ekman in 1922 (Amer. Gr. 
Nat. Herb.710). San Diego 
de los Bafies, Léon 4522, 
4848. Sabinilla, Wright 
3867. Jagiiey Chico (prov. 
Santa Clara), Ekman 16999. 
Without locality, Wright 
3441, 3853. 
2. Brachiaria erucaeformis 
(J. E. Smith) Griseb., 
in Ledeb., Fl. Ross. 4: 
469. 1833. 
Panicum erucaeforme J. E. 
Smith, in Sibth., Fl. Graec. 
Prodr.1:40. 1806. Greece. 
Panicum isachne Roth; 
Roem. and Schult., Syst. 
Veg. 2:458. 1817. India. 
Brachiaria isachne Stapf, 
in Prain, Fl. Trop. Afr. 9: 
552, 1919- 
Annual; culms decum- 
bent-spreading, rooting at 
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FIGURE 118.—Brachiaria eztensa. Plant, X 14; two views of spikelet and floret, X 10 (Nealley)- 
