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27. Paspalum oligostachyum Salzm.; Steud., Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 23. 
1854. Bahia. 
Culms ascending to spreading, 25 to 75 cm tall; sheaths softly 
pubescent with spreading hairs; blades flat, densely velvety pubes- 
cent, 8 to 25 cm long, 7 to 13 mm wide; racemes usually 3 to 5, 
spreading, 3 to 10 cm long; spikelets 2 mm long, obovate, bronze- 
green, mottled with purplish brown, obscurely appressed-pubescent 
(fig. 149). 
Wooded slopes and clay banks, Trinidad to eastern Brazil. 
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FIGURE 149.—Paspalum oligostochyum. FIGURE 150.—Paspalum paniculatum. Panicle, 
Panicle, X 1; two views of spikelet, and X 1; two views of spikelet, and floret, xX 10 
floret, X 10 (type collection). (Ledru, and Duss 549). 
28. Paspalum paniculatum L., Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 2: 855. 1759. 
Jamaica. 
Paspalum hemisphericum Poir., in Lam. Encyel. 5: 31. 1804. 
Puerto Rico. 
Paspalum strictum Pers., Syn. Pl. 1: 86. 1805. Santo Domingo. 
Paspalum affine Bello, An. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat. 12: 125. 18883. 
Puerto Rico. 
Panicum paniculatum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 37: 363. 1898. 
Paspalum paniculatum minor Scribn., Field Mus. Bot. 2: 24. 
1900. Jamaica. 
Culms erect or decumbent at base, mostly 50 to 100 cm tall; 
sheaths papillose-hispid; blades flat, mostly 10 to 25 cm long, 10 to 20 
mm wide, more or less hispid; panicle usually 8 to 20 cm long, of 
several to many arched-spreading, somewhat fascicled racemes, the 
lower 4 to 12 cm long; spikelets about 1.3 mm long, subhemispheric, 
pubescent (fig. 150). 
