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Bermupa: Hillcrest, Collins 155 in part. Hamilton, Brown and 
Britton 56. 
Bauamas: Inagua, Hitchcock in 1890. 
Cuspa: Arroyo Mantua, Ekman 10960, 11021. Candeleria, Léon 
12702. Bacunagua, Léon 15068. Savanna de Chirigota, Léon 7455. 
Habana, Léon 2738, 3478, 7521, 13604, 15824. Cojimar, Léon 5604. 
[sla de Pinos, Ekman 11652; Britton and Wilson 15665. Without 
locality, Wright 3845. 
JAMAICA: Claremont, Hitchcock 9520. Apple- 
ton, Mitchcock 9654. Ipswich, Hitchcock 9598. 
Haiti: Valliére, Hkman H 4501. Bayeux, 
Ekman H 2601. 
Dominican Repusuic: Jaina, Faris 11; Ekman 
H 12484. Santo Domingo City, Ekman H 11385. 
Peninsula de Samana, HKkman H 15365. 
Puerto Rico: Mayaguez, Chase 6282. Que- 
bradillas, Chase 6572. Barcelonita, Chase 6439. 
Campo Alegre, Chase 6433, 6613. Vega Baja, 
Britton, Britton, and Brown 6950. San Juan, 
Chase 6634%. Playa de Fajardo, Chase 6661. * anna Togiens 
Leewarp Isuanps: Antigua, Wullschlaegel 697; cerita ane. Torets 
Box 103, 108. 
WINDWARD IsLANDs: Barbados, Hitchcock 16500. St. Lucia, Box 
O21. 
20. Paspalum decumbens Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 22. 1788. 
Jamaica. 
Panicum decumbens Roem. and Schult., Syst. Veg. 2: 429. 1817. 
Culms spreading or creeping, freely branching, 10 to 70 cm long; 
blades flat, commonly 5 to 10 cm long, 6 to 12 mm wide, more or less 
pubescent; peduncles 2 to 8 from the upper- 
most sheath; racemes solitary (very rarely 
2), 1 to 3.5 cm long, arcuate; spikelets 
crowded, 1.7 mm long, obovate; first glume 
present; second glume about half as long 
as the spikelet (fig. 142). 
Open or partly shaded slopes, up to 1,600 
m, often a weed in waste ground, Guatemala 
and the West Indies to Brazil and Bolivia. 
Cusa: Pinar del Rio, Wright 3851. San 
Diego de los Bafios, Léon 4569. Sierra de 
los Organos, Ekman 12966. Isla de Pinos, 
FIGURE 142.—Paspalum decum- Curtiss 327. 
eee ease Bee eras ale 
bens. Raceme, X 1; two views of 5 G . 
eLibsarsenaionstesc 10, (Eien. JAMAICA: Bull Head Mountain, Hitchcock 
cock 9562. Q5o3 Amer Nae ING serbutoia): Upper 
Clarendon, Harrs 12255. Ram’s Horn 
Range, Hitchcock 9562. Hardware Gap, Harris 11545. Castleton, 
Harris 11606. Seamens Valley, Mazon and Killip 58. Claverty 
Cottage, Harris 11522. Mattis River, Mazon and Killip 190; 
Perkins 1485. 
Haiti: Port-de-Pai, Ekman H 3693. Plaisance, Leonard 9336. 
Pérodin, Ekman H 3483. Caille la Croix, Leonard 7840, 7855. 
Dominican Repustic: Villa Altagracia, Ekman H 11182. 
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