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wide; panicles 10 to 15 em long; racemes numerous, solitary or 2 or 3 
together, tardily falling entire, 3 to 5 cm long, the rachis 1.5 mm 
wide; spikelets 1.5 to 2 mm long, whitish, glabrous or pubescent 
Gio L277). 
FIGURE 125.—Paspolum dissec- FIGURE 126.—Paspclum serratum. Panicle, 
tum. Panicle X 1; two views x 1; two views of spikelet, and floret, 
of spikelet, and floret, < 10 xX 10 (type). 
(Commons 85). 
Floating in sluggish streams or standing water or creeping in wet 
places, southeastern United States, West Indies, and Central America 
to Paraguay. 
Jamaica: Cornwall, Harris 12557. Shettlewood, Harris 11641. 
Westmoreland, Harris 11812. Middle Quarters, Hitchcock 9582. 
TRINIDAD: Caroni Savanna, 
Hart 4194. 
6. Paspalum racemosum Lam., 
abl kneycl. 1: 146. 1790. 
Peru. 
Annual; culms widely spreading 
or clambering, as much as 1 m 
long; blades flat, thin, 4 to 12 cm 
long, 1 to 2 cm wide, acuminate, 
glabrous; panicle ferruginous or 
dark purple, 10 to 20 cm long; 
racemes numerous, falling entire, 
1 to 2 cm long; rachis about 1 mm 
wide; spikelets about 2.7 mm long, 
the glume rugulose on the lower Ficurz 127.—Paspalwm repens. Panicle, X 1; 
p art, the s teril e lemma flu ted or EO) wee of spikelet, and floret, < 10 (Hitch- 
deeply wrinkled crosswise (fig. 128). 
In recently disturbed soil, fields, waste places, and roadsides, 
Kceuador and Peru; introduced as an ornamental in the West Indies 
and escaped. 
Cusa: Habana, Léon 759. 
Dominican Repusuic: Without locality, Poiteau. 
