208 MISC. PUBLICATION 243, U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
Purerto Rico: Mayaguez, Chase 6170, 6176, 6186; Holm 88. 
Rosario, Chase 6264. Monte Alegrillo, Chase 6235. Monte Montoso, 
Britton and Cowell 4118. Yauco, Britton 7225. Adjuntas, Britton 
and Shafer 2135; Chase 6473; Heller 6354. San Juan, Chase 6399, 
6648. Trujillo Alto, Chase 6361. Las Cruces, Britton and Britton 
9068. Cayey, Chase 6340. Rio Grande, Chase 
6718. Mameyes, Cowgill 627. Fajardo, Britton 
and Shafer 1680. 
Trinipap: St. Ann, Britton and Hazen 1688. 
Port-of-Spain, Hitchcock 9957%. St. Joseph, 
ENtchcock 10175. Arima, Hitchcock 10308. 
Piarco Savanna, Hitchcock 10353. O’Meara 
Savanna, Britton and Hazen 1582. Masacas, 
Broadway in 1925. Cedros, Hitchcock 10135. 
Aripo Road, Broadway 8030. Without local- 
ity, Finlay 39; Bot. Gard. Herb. 2271. 
21. Paspalum nutans Lam., Tabl. Encyel. 1: 
175. 1791. South America. 
Paspalum lloydi Nash, N. Amer. FI. 17: 
178. 1912. Dominica, Lloyd 590. ’ 
Tene eee LT Resembling P. decumbens in habit; primary 
Raceme, X 1; two views peduncle often with 2 to 4 racemes, the others 
a ae wawatle onlysones racemes! 2 to Glen long; spike- 
lets 1.8 to 2 mm long; first glume obsolete or 
occasionally developed especially on the secondary spikelet; second 
glume three-fourths as long as the spikelet (fig. 143). 
Partly shaded slopes and banks and mossy cliffs, to 1,000 m altitude, 
Honduras and the Leeward Islands to Brazil. 
LEEWARD IsLANDs: St. Kitts, Mitchcock 16351; Box 147, 153. 
Nevis, Box 167. Guadeloupe, Duss 4059. Dominica, Bryant 5. 
WINDWARD IsLANps: ‘‘Martinique et Guade- 
loupe’, Husnot 77. Grenada, Broadway 1729. 
St. Lucia, Bor 188. 
Trinipap: St. Ann, Broadway 4914, 5331. 
Port-of-Spain, Chase 9930; Hitchcock 9957, 
9982, 10040, 10200. St. Joseph, Hitchcock 
10015. Mount Tucuche, Britton, Hazen, and 
Mendelson 1249. Arima, Hitchcock 10299, 
10301. Belmont, Broadway 2811. Blanchis- 
seuse Road, Broadway 7665. 
22. Paspalum dispar Chase, Contrib. U. S. 
Natl. Herb. 28: 96. f.50. 1929. Dom- 
inican Republic, Ekman H 6248. 
Culms erect or ascending, 12 to 35 em tall, 
the nodes pilose; blades flat, 4 to 15 em long, 3 
to 6 mm wide, finely pubescent; peduncles 2 FIGURE 14. Paspalum dispar. 
or 3 from the upper sheath, the secondary _ spikelet,and floret, x 10 (type). 
ones at first concealed; racemes solitary, 1.5 
to 4.5 em long, arcuate; spikelets elliptic-obovate, 1.9 mm long; first 
glume small and nerveless on the primary spikelet, 1-nerved, pointed, 
and two-thirds as long as the spikelet on the secondary (fig. 144). 
Brushy slopes, and pinelands, Hispaniola. 
Dominican Repusuic: Restauracién, Ekman H 6248. Con- 
stanza, Ekman H 13928. San José de Ocoa, Ekman H 11595. Villa 
