MANUAL OF THE GRASSES OF THE WEST INDIES 191 
In Grasses of the West Indies * this species was referred to Axono- 
pus pellitus (Nees) Hitche. and Chase. Nees’ type of Paspalum 
pellitum and also Mez’s of P. anceps have since been examined in the 
Berlin Herbarium. 
Open grassland, Trinidad to Brazil. 
TRINIDAD: Pitch Lake, Hitchcock 10094. 
78. REIMAROCHLOA Hitche., Contrib. U. S. Natl. Herb. 12: 
198. 1909 
Spikelets strongly dorsally compressed, lanceolate, acuminate, 
rather distant, subsessile, and alternate in two rows along one side 
of a narrow, flattened rachis, the back of the fertile lemma turned 
toward it; both glumes wanting, or the second sometimes present in 
the terminal spikelet; sterile lemma about equaling the fruit, the 
sterile palea obsolete; fertile lemma scarcely indurate, faintly nerved, 
acuminate, the margins inrolled at the base only, the palea free nearly 
half its length. Spreading or stoloniferous perennials, with fiat 
blades and slender racemes, these subdigitate or racemose along the 
upper part of the culm, stiffly spreading or reflexed at maturity. 
Spikelets 2 to 3 mm long, silky along the margin; racemes several. 
. R. BRASILIENSIS. 
Spikelets about 5 mm long, glabrous; racemes 2 or 8____ 2. R. OLIGOSTACHYA. 
1. Reimarochloa brasiliensis (Spreng.) Hitchc., Contrib. U.S. Natl. 
Herb. 12: 198. 1909. 
Agrostis brasiliensis Spreng., Nov. Prov. Hal. 45. 1819. Brazil. 
Reimaria brasiliensis Schlecht., Bot. Zits 102-1%. 4852: 
Panicum oryanthum Steud. , Syn. PisGlum. 1547. 1854 Santo 
Domingo. 
Culms tufted, branching, stoloniferous, the ascending flowering 
branches scarcely more than 10 cm tall; sheaths loose; blades flat, 
rather lax, mostly less than 10 cm long, pubescent or pilose; racemes 
delicate, digitate, about 10, finally spreading or reflexed, 2 to 3 cm 
long; spikelets about 8 mm long, acuminate, silky along the margin. 
Wet ground around ponds, Cuba to Brazil. 
Cuspa: Handbana, Wright 3437. Las Mangas, Ekman 13085. 
Habana, Ekman 757. Santiago de las Vegas, Hkman in 1923 (Amer. 
Gr. Nat. Herb. 992). San Francisco, Ekman 10976. Isla de Pinos, 
Curtiss 497. 
Dominican Repustuic: Higiiey, Ekman H 12176. Santo Domingo, 
Ekman H 10994. Without locality, Poiteaw. 
2. Reimarochloa oligostachya (Munro) Hitchc., Contrib. U.S. Natl. 
Herb. 12: 199. 1909. 
Reimaria oligostachya Munro; Benth., Jour. Linn. Soc. Boe. 19: 
34. 1882. Florida. 
Stouter than the preceding, the flat culms often elongate, decumbent 
with ascending ends; racemes 1 to 3, terminal and axillary, stiff, at 
maturity widely divergent or deflexed ; spikelets glabrous, about 5 
mm long (fig. 122). 
Wet soil around ponds, Florida and Cuba. 
Cusa: Handbana, Wright 3854. 
56 Contrib. U. S. Natl. Herb. 18: 301. 1917. 
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