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Panicum prostratum var. pilosum Eggers, Fl. St. Croix and 
Virgin Isl. 104. 1879. St. Croix. 
Urochloa reptans Stapf, in Prain, Fl. Trop. Afr. 9: 601. 1920. 
Plants annual, spreading, usually prostrate; culms slender, freely 
branching, 10 to 30 cm tall; blades lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 
1.5 to 6 cm long, 4 to 12 mm wide, cordate, glabrous or puberulent, 
ciliate at base; inflorescence long-exserted, 2 to 6 cm long; racemes 
spikelike, 3 to 12, 2 to 3 cm long: spikelets about 2 mm long, glabrous; 
first glume rounded or truncate, less than 0.5 mm long (fig. 199). 
Moist open ground and a frequent weed in waste places and culti- 
vated soil, Florida to Texas, southward to northern South America; 
also in tropical regions of the Eastern Hemisphere. Probably to be 
found on all the West Indian islands. In Cuba called ‘“‘San Juan de 
Castillo.” 
4, Panicum fasciculatum Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 22. 1788. 
Jamaica. BROWNTOP MILLET. 
Panicum fuscum Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 23. 1788. Jamaica. 
Panicum flavescens Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 23. 1788. 
Jamaica. 
FIGURE 199.—Panicum repians. FIGURE 200.—Panicum fasciculatum. 
Two views of spikelet, and floret, Two views of spikelet, and floret, 
xX 10 (type of P. prostratum X 10 (type). 
Lam.). 
Panicum chartaginense Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Oce. 22. 1788. 
Cartagena. 
Panicum fusco-rubens Lam., Tabl. Eneyel. 1: 171. 1791. Carib- 
bean Islands. 
Panicum fastigiatum Poir., in Lam., Encycl. Sup. 4: 277. 1816. 
Based on P. fasciculatum Swartz. 
Panicum illinoniense Desv., Opusc. 91. 1831. 
Panicum reticulatum Griseb., Abh. Ges. Wiss. G6ttingen 7: 264. 
1857. Caribbean Islands or Panama. 
Panicum fuscum var. fasciculatum Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 547. 
1864. 
Panicum fasciculatum var. flavescens Doell, in Mart., Fl. Bras. 2: 
205. 1877. 
Panicum fasciculatum var. fuscum Doell, in Mart., Fl. Bras. 27: 
205) See 
Annual, erect or spreading from a decumbent base, 30 to 100 cm 
tall; sheaths glabrous or papillose-hispid; blades flat, 6 to 20 mm 
wide, glabrous or sparsely hispid; panicle 10 to 20 cm long, of several 
racemes 5 to 10 cm long, solitary or fascicled along the main axis; 
spikelets 2 to 2.5 mm long, bronze to yellow or brown, glabrous, 
pointed, reticulate-veined; first glume one-third as long as the spike- 
let (fig. 200). 
