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Dominican Repusuic: Matas, Eggers 2439. Cuenca, Ekman 
H 13304. Moncioén, Ekman H 13014. Sabana de la Mar, Ekman 
H 15609. 
TRINIDAD: Comuto Station, Hitchcock 10066. Arouca, Hitchcock 
10338. 
74, Paspalum fimbriatum H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Sp. 1: 93. pl. 28. 
1815. Colombia. 
Annual; culms erect, 25 to 100 cm tall; blades flat, mostly 10 to 
20 cm long, 5 to 12 mm wide; racemes 3 to 8, ascending or spreading, 
2.5 to 8 cm long, the axis 8 to 10 cm long; spikelets about 2.3 mm long, 
with a broad firm notched wing, the wing and spikelet together about 
3 mm long and wide (fig. 195). 
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FIGURE 196.—Paspalum saccharoidcs. Panicle, X 14; two views ofspikelet,and floret, X 10 (Hitchcock 7904) 
Savannas, open and waste ground, Panama, the West Indies, and 
northern South America. To be found on probably all the islands 
of the West Indies. 
75. Paspalum saccharoides Nees, in Trin., Gram. Icon. 1: pl. 107. 
1827. Based on Saccharum polystachyum Swartz. 
Saccharum polystachyum Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 21. 1788. 
Not Paspalum polystachyum KR. Br., 1810. St. Christopher. 
Pamcum saccharoides Kunth, Rév. Gram. 2: 237. pl. 30. 1830. 
Tricholaena saccharoides Griseb., Syst. Unt. Veg. Karaib. 117. 
1857. 
Paspalum polystachyum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 786. 1891. Not 
P. polystachyum R. Br., 1810. 
