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Altagracia, Ekman H11255. Bayaguana, HkmanH11095. Moncidn, 
Ekman H 12629. San Juan, Ekman H 13426. 
23. Paspalum pilosum Lam., Tabl. Encycl. 1: 175. 1791. Tropical 
America. 
Dimorphostachys pilosa Fourn., Mex. Pl. 2: 14. 1886. 
Culms ascending or spreading, 40 to 115 em tall; blades flat or the © 
margins revolute, 10 to 40 cm long, 
3 to 8 mm wide, harshly pubescent; 
peduncles slender, elongate, 1 to 4 
from the upper and middle sheaths; 
racemes solitary, arcuate, 6 to 17 cm 
long; spikelets 2.6 to 3 mm long, 
elliptic; first glume minute on the 
primary spike- 
let, small to 
half the length 
of the spikelet, 
pointed and 
eccentric on the 
secondary (fig. 
145). 
Open sparsely 
wooded slopes 
and brushy sa- 
vannas, mostly 
in rather moist 
soil, lowlands, 
and ve to 1,500 an twore oe Br aitcaines ene floret OC 16 
m, Costa Rica  (Giitchcock 8130). 
to Bolivia and 
southern Brazil; Trinidad. 
TRINIDAD: Port-of-Spain, Hitchcock 9987. St. 
Joseph, Hitchcock 10189. Aripo Savanna, Hitch- 
cock 10075. Pitch Lake, Broadway 2603; Hitch- 
cock 10088. La Brea, Broadway 4969. 
24. Paspalum unispicatum (Scribn. and Merr.) 
INesh, Ne Amer: Fy) 193. pal Ono! 
Panicum unispicatum Scribn. and Merr., U.S. 
Dept. Agr., Div. Agrost. Bull. 24: 14. 1901. 
Mexico. 
Culms erect, 50 to 80 cm tall; blades flat, 10 
to 30 cm long, 8 to 15 mm wide, stiffly papillose- 
ciliate on the margin, and more or less so on the 
surface; peduncles commonly 2 from the upper 
ee sheath; racemes 1 or sometimes 2, 6 to 20 cm 
Ficure 146—Pespalum long; spikelets 3 to 3.5 mm long; first glume 
eee ee sttiece Munute on the primary spikelet, larger and 
and floret, X 10 (type). | acuminate on the secondary (fig. 146). 
Meadows, savannas, open slopes, and banks, 
up to 1,500 m, southern Texas to Venezuela and Argentina; Cuba. 
Cuspa: Guane, Ekman 11093. Habana, Léon 2401. Zaza de 
Tunas, Léon 947. Sancti Spiritus, Clements 2427; Léon 4099, 5582; 
Sergius 2411, 2682. Soledad, Jack 6149, 8273. 
