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Culms densely cespitose in large tussocks, reclining, siender, 20 to 
70 cm long, with short flowering culms intermixed; blades mostly 
20 to 50 cm long, about 1 mm wide, plano-convex; raceme solitary, 
arcuate, 3 to 8 cm long; spikelets 1.6 to 1.8 mm long, ovate-elliptic, 
olabrous (fig. 161). 
Savannas, open or wooded slopes, Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispaniola. 
Cupa: Guane, Ekman 11095. Remates, Ekman 11197. El 
Rangel, Léon 14047. Sabana de Chirigeta, Léon 7452. Mariel, 
Ekman in 1921 (Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 946). San Micuel de Casanova, 
Léon 12472, 12558. Sabana de Motembo, Léon 9346. Manati, Léon 
6009. Without locality, Wright 3848. 
JAMAICA: Savanna-la-Mar, Hitchcock 9885. Troy, Hitchcock 9809 
(Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 566). Lacovia, Britton 1475. 
Haiti: ‘‘ Hispaniola’’, Swartz. 
Dominican Repusiic: Santo Domingo City, Ekman H 10908. 
Higtiey, Ekman H 12234. Peninsula de Samana, Hkman H 15829. 
41. Paspalum distertum Chase, Contrib. U.S. 
Natl. Herb. 28: 142. f. 85. 1929. Ja- 
maica, Harris 12569. 
Culms slender, 15 to 50 cm tall; blades 15 to 
40 cm long, 1 to 1.5 mm wide, involute, com- 
monly somewhat tortuous; raceme solitary, 
arcuate, 2.5 to 6 cm long; spikelets 2 mm 
long, ovate to somewhat rhomboid, the glume 
and sterile lemma irregularly crumpled, glab- 
rous (fig. 162). 
Open hillsides, especially on serpentine 
rocks, Cuba, Haiti, and Jamaica. 
Cupa: Cajalbana, Léon 4857. Habana, 
Léon 946. Guanabacoa, Léon 7057. San 
Miguel de Casanova, Léon 12473. Sabana del 
Tibisial, Léon 6661. Manajanabo, Léon 5273. 
Banao Mountains, Léon 8042. Baragua, 
Walker in 1925. Sierra Maestra, Ekman 14691. 
El Yunque, Shafer 7732. Baracoa, Ekman  Fieure 162.—Pospalum dis- 
3597. Isla de Pinos, Curtiss 374. hee WiGaiiee cay 
JAMAICA: Troy, Harris 12564, 12569; Hitch- —-X 10 (type). 
cock 9789. Cockpit Country, Britton 465. 
Bull Head Mountain, Hitchcock 9544. Claremont, Hitchcock 9518. 
Between Ewarton and Linstead, Hitchcock 9438}. 
Haiti: Aux Cayes, Kkman H 7. Cotrail, Ekman H 10740. 
Dominican REpustic: Puerta Plata, Hkman H 14584. 
42. Paspalum lindenianum A. Rich., in Sagra, Hist. Cuba 11: 299. 
1850. Cuba, Linden 1818. 
Paspalum longifolium Steud., Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 21. 1854. Not 
P. longifolium Roxb., 1820. Cuba, Linden 18138. 
Paspalum megaphyllum Steud., Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 464. 1854. Based 
on P. longifolium Steud. 
Culms commonly 40 to 70 cm tall, cespitose in dense tussocks, the 
leaves of the numerous sterile shoots usually about equaling the 
culm; blades 20 to 50 cm long, 1 mm wide, plano-convex; racemes 
1 or 2, rarely 3 or 4, arcuate or nearly straight, mostly 6 to 10 cm long; 
