204 MISC. PUBLICATION 243, U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
807. El Yunque, Chase 6729. Colonia San Miguel, Britton and 
Shafer 1624. 
Lerwarp Is~anps: Antigua, Wullschlaegel 593; Box 99, 142. 
Dominica, Hitchcock 16421. 
WINDWARD IsLaNnps: Mar- 
tinique, Duss 558. Grenada, 
Broadway 1793%. 
13. Paspalum minus Fourn., 
Mex. Pll) 2: .6niptSSor 
Mexico. 
Similar to P. notatum, com- 
monly in denser mats, on 
the average smaller, the culms 
rarely more than 30 cm tall; 
racemes more slender, less 
rarely 3; spikelets 2 to 2.5 mm 
long (fig. 135). 
Open slopes and savannas 
up to 1,500 m, Texas, Mexico, 
i and the West Indies to Para- 
& guay and Bolivia. 
A Cusa: Arroyo del Sumidero, 
FIGURE 135.—Paspalum minus. Panicle, X 1; two Léon and Shafer 13670; Shafer 
views of spikelet, and fioret, X 10 (type collection). and Léon 13677. Herradura, 
Hitchcock 455, 23439; Tracy 
9093. Cajdlbana, Léon and Charles 4856. San Diego de los Bafios, 
Léon 4468. Pinar del Rio, Hitchcock 23284, 23305. Mordazo, Ekman 
17093. Isla de Pinos, Britton and Wilson 14695; Palmer and 
Riley 978. Without locality, Wright 3438 in part. 
Jamaica: Bull Head 
Mountain, Hitchcock 
95401. 
Hartt: Las Cahobas, 
Cook, Scofield, and Doyle 
103. 
DomINICAN REPUBLIC: 
Cotuy, Abbott 830, 850. 
Pusrrto Rico: Trujillo 
Alto, Chase 6368. 
14. Paspalum pumilum 
Nees, Agrost. Bras. 
Baa Wey e leheeyall 
Culms usually 15 to 35 
em tall, the rhizomes, if 
present, short and nearly 
vertical; blades 1.5 to 12 
om long, 2 toy mm wide, FIGURE 136.—Paspalum pumilum. Panicle, X 1; two views of 
olabrous or pubescent; spikelet, and floret; X 10 (type and Hitchcock 10350). 
racemes 2, recurved- 
ascending, 2 to 7 cm long, slender; spikelets 1.6 to 2 mm long, glabrous 
(fig. 136). 
Sandy savannas and moist open ground, mostly at low altitudes, 
West Indies to Uruguay and Chile. 
