MANUAL OF THE GRASSES OF THE WEST INDIES 22s 
48. Paspalum multicaule Poir., in Lam., Encycl. Sup. 4: 309. 1816. 
Brazil. 
Annual; culms in dense tufts, often forming mats, spreading or 
ascending, 20 to 45 cm tall; blades flat, drying revolute and often 
tortuous, 2 to 15 cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 mm wide, papillose-pilose; racemes 
2, paired, divergent, commonly 2 to 4 cm long, yellowish; spikelets 
1.2 to 1.4 mm long, subhemispheric, beaded with subglobular hairs 
(fie. 169). 
Moist eroded places in savannas and open usually disturbed or 
washed ground, southern Mexico to Brazil and Bolivia. 
Cusa: Laguna Santa Barbara, Hkman 18115. Mendoza, Shafer 
10862. Herradura, Baker and Abarca 4185; Hitchcock 472. Chira- 
gota, Wright 3844 in part. Isla de Pinos, Britton and Wilson 14805. 
Dominican Repusiic: Cotuy, Abbott 850b. 
Cuenca, Hkman H 11005. 
TRINIDAD: Piarco Savanna, 
Broadway 2126; Hitchcock 
g 10340; Warming 88389. 
| a“ O’Meara Savanna, SBrition 
iS TN and Hazen 1572. Pitch Lake, 
4 Ae Hitchcock 10102 (Amer. Gr. 
XY Nat. Herb. 574). 
49. Paspalum = ciavuliferum 
Wright, An. Acad. Cien. 
Habana 8: 203. 1871; FI, 
Cub.195. 1873. Cuba, 
Wright 3444 in part. OE dh 
Ficuze 160.—Paspalum | Annual; culms erect to v Guriltclvae | Bapane 
tion uicnsict pikclet, spreading, branching, 5 to A itiotenn floret, X 10 
and floret, X 10 (Otto). 45 em tall; blades flat, 3 to  —(duplicate type). 
Lo cm Jong. es) ator emma: 
wide, papillose-pilose; racemes solitary or paired, rarely with a 
third below, arcuate, 1 to 5.5 cm long; spikelets 1.2 to 1.4 mm long, 
elliptic-obovate, the glume pubescent with capitellate hairs (fig. 170). 
Moist spots in sandy savannas and barrens, eroded places in open 
and brushy slopes, waste and cultivated ground, southern Mexico to 
Brazil; Cuba to Puerto Rico. 
Cuzsa: La Coloma, Hkman in 1923 (Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 954). 
Cajflbana, Léon 4858. Jagiiey Chico, Ekman 16982. Gavilanes, 
Léon 6655. Placetas del Sur, Léon 6417, 6418. Zaza de Tunas, 
Léon 942. Baragua, Hitchcock 23379%. Guara, Hitchcock 23480. 
Eastern Cuba, Wright 3444 in part. 
Hartt: Acul-Samedi, Ekman H 9911. 
Dominican Repustic: San Juan, Ekman H 13402. Higiiey, 
Ekman H 12209. Moncion, Ekman H 12631. Guerra, Ekman H 
11019. 
Puerto Rico: Campo Alegre, Stevenson 2454, 
59. Paspalum parviflorum Rohdé; Fligge, Monogr. Pasp. 98. 1810. 
Puerto Rico. 
Annual, densely tufted, conspicuously pilose; culms branching, 
ascending or spreading, 4 to 17 cm tall; blades 1.5 to 6.5 cm long, 1 
to 2 mm wide; racemes 2 to 4, 2 to 10 mm distant, spreading or 
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