224 MISC. PUBLICATION 243, U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
reflexed, 6 to 25 mm long, the rachis strongly zigzag; spikelets not 
imbricate, 0.8 mm long, oblong-elliptic, the glume and sterile lemma 
tearing apart in the middle and reduced to a rim around the spikelet 
(fie 17 1), 
Sandy savannas and sand barrens, Panama to Brazil; Puerto Rico. 
Puerto Rico: Without locality, Rohdé in 1809 (British Museum). 
51. Paspalum breve Chase, in Urban, Symb. 
: AN bil f: .fbo4 101 
Cuba, Léon 1996. 
Stoloniferous perennial 
often forming dense leafy 
mats; culms subfiliform, 5 
to 10 cm tall; blades mostly 
3 to 6 cm long, 2 to 4 mm 
wide, flat or folded or sub- 
involute in drying; racemes 
FIGURE 171.—Paspalum parvi usually solitary about 10 FIGURE 172.—Paspalum 
Vera. Daniele: x eee mm long; spikelets 1.4 mm brere. Raceme, X_ 1: 
very gemma snd toch long, ‘broadly oval, fruih, | 22 erect 
brownish (fig. 172). 
Stony, mostly calcareous, slopes, Cuba and Hispaniola. 
Cusa: Gorge of Taco Taco River, Léon 15060. Marianao, Léon 
1996, 3477. Serro de Esperén, Killip 13512. Cojimar, Léon 1997. 
Bacuranao, Wilson and Léon 2872, 11599. Sierra de Anafe, Ekman 
16906. Sancti Spiritus, Léon 4100. Manati, Léon 5681%. Bayate, 
Ekman 9843. Loma del Gato, Léon 9811. 
Haiti: La Source, Ekman H 3379. Grande Riviere, Ekman H 449. 
Pestel, Hyerdam 357. Dame-Marie, Ekman 
H 10480. 
Dominican REpusuic: Santo Domingo City, 
Ekman H 10957. 
52. Paspalum edmondi Léon, in Britton, Mem. 
Torrey Bot. Club 16: 58. 1920. Cuba, 
Léon and Edmond 8607. 
Low stoloniferous perennial with short slender 
rhizomes; culms filiform, 2 to 6 cm tall, the 
stolons as much as 15 cm long; foliage conspicu- 
ously spreading-pilose; blades flat, 1 to 6 cm 
long, 1 to 2mm wide; raceme solitary, 10 to 15 
mm long; spikelets 1.5 to 2 mm long, broadly 
limon. Eocene x . ovate, the apex prolonged into a prominent 
bo mews OCs pikelet, and beak; glume irregularly transversely wrinkled, 
eae : less so at maturity; fruit brown (fig. 173). 
Palms barrens on serpentine, Cuba. 
Cusa: Motembo, Ekman 16822; Léon and Edmond 8607, 8682. 
53. Paspalum orbiculatum Poir., in Lam., Encycl. 5: 32. 1804. 
Puerto Rico. 
Paspalum pusillum Vent.; Fligge, Monogr. Pasp. 100. 1810. 
St. Thomas and Puerto Rico. 
Paspalum lenormandi Husnot, Bull. Soc. Linn. Normand. (II) 
5: 259. 1871. Martinique. 
