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Primary pedicel much shorter than 
its  spikelet, the — spikelets 
crowded. 
Nodes glabrous; spikelets pale, 
stramineous or brownish, 1.7 
to 2mm long__35. P. LAxuUM. 
Nodes or some of them appressed- 
pubescent; spikelets green or 
purplish. 
Rhizomes long, scaly. 
29. P. MARITIMUM. 
Rhizomes wanting. 
Ligule obsolete or minute. 
31. P. CAESPITOSUM. 
Ligule 1.5 to 2 mm long. 
33. P. ACUTIFOLIUM. 
1. Paspalum stellatum Humb. and Bonpl., in Fligge, Monogr. Pasp. 
62. 1810. Colombia. 
Culms simple, erect, or decumbent at base, 40 to 80 cm tall, slender, 
wiry; sheaths papillose-hirsute, or the upper glabrate; blades involute- 
setaceous, papillose-pilose; racemes solitary or paired, 2.5 to 10 cm 
long; rachis 5 to 7 mm wide, the margins membranaceous; spikelets 
about 3 mm long, almost 
hidden under the dense 
glistening white hairs 
(fig! 23)! 
Savannas and open 
rocky slopes, southern 
Mexico to Argentina; 
Hispaniola. 
Haiti: St. Michel, 
Leonard 7289, 7526, 
7537a. Between Morne 
Sala and Morne Basil, 
Ekman H 2484. Hinche, 
Ekman H 6428. Mire- 
balais, Hkman H 2302. 
Miragoane, Ekman 
H 7246. 
Dominican REPUB- 
Lic: Leonor, Valeur 498. 
Moncién, Hkman 
el O1 5: 
2. Paspalum heterotri- 
chon Trin., Gram. 
lteenea3 > plav 285: 
1831. Brazil. 
Paspalum heterotri- 
chum var. paucispicatum 
Hack., Notizbl. Bot. 
Gart: Berlin’ 1: 328. 
SEE : FIGURE 123.—Paspalum stellatum. Panicle, X 1; two 
1897. Haiti, Picarda views of spikelet, and floret, X 10 (Sello 5686). 
1525. 
Culms very slender, 50 to 90 em tall, finally branching and leaning 
or clambering among other vegetation; blades firm, more or less 
