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LEEWARD IsLaNnpDs: Dominica, Jones 39. 
TRINIDAD: Piarco Savanna, Hitchcock 10350; Warming 808. 
Valencia, Broadway 6946. 
15. Paspalum serpentinum Hochst.; Steud., Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 22. 
1854. Dutch Guiana. 
Culms simple, erect, 50 to 60 cm tall, naked above; lower sheaths 
crowded, grayish villous, the upper glabrous; blades firm, flat or 
involute, 3 to 5 mm wide; racemes 2, subconjugate, 6 to 8 cm long; 
rachis slender, flexuous; spikelets suborbicular, flattish, 2.6 mm long, 
glabrous, yellowish brown with irregular transverse markings of dark 
brown (fig. 137). 
Wet sandy savannas, Trinidad, the Guianas, and Brazil. 
TRINIDAD: Piarco Savanna, 
Mitchcock 10337. 
16. Paspalum lineare Trin., 
Gram. Pan.99. 826. Brazil. 
Paspalum neesi Kunth, Rév. 
Gram. 1: 25. 1829. Brazil. 
Culms slender,’'40 to 80 cm tall, 
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icle, X 1; two views of spikelet, and floret, X 1; two views of spikelet, and floret, 
X 10 (type and Hitchcock 10337). X 10 (type and Glaziou 224938). 
the nodes appressed-pubescent; blades narrow, conduplicate, the 
upper surfaces grown together; racemes 2, approximate, erect, 3 to 5 
cm long; spikelets not imbricate, elliptic, 4 to 4.5 mm long, glabrous 
except at the very base (fig. 138). 
Savannas, Costa Rica to Argentina; Cuba and Hispaniola. 
Cupa: Herradura, Baker 3459; Ekman 10737. Between Zarzal and 
Nagua, Léon 11336; Ekman 14146. Isla de Pinos, Britton and Wilson 
15114; Curtiss 379. 
Dominican Repusuic: Cuenca, Hkman H 11061, H 13338. 
17. Paspaium debile Michx., Fl. Bor. Amer. 1: 44. 1803. Carolina. 
Culms slender, ascending, with a cluster of short leafy shoots at 
base; blades flat, rather thin, pilose on both surfaces, conspicuously 
