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28. Panicum stenodoides Hubb., Amer. Acad. Proc. 49: 497. 1913. 
British Honduras. 
Perennial; culms in dense tufts, erect, slender, wiry, 20 to 40 cm 
tall; blades erect, flat at base, involute toward the apex, 3 to 8 cm 
long, 1 to 2 mm wide, more or less papillose-pilose; panicles about 1 
em long, narrow, bearing 3 to 7 spikelets about 2 mm long; first glume 
half as long as the spikelet (fig. 223). 
Open grassland and moist savannas, Central America, Trinidad. 
TRINIDAD: Piarco Savanna, Hitchcock 10346. 
29. Panicum stenodes Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 547. 1864. Jamaica. 
Perennial; culms in small tufts, slender and wiry, 25 to 50 cm tall, 
erect or reclining; blades 1 to 4 cm long, 1 to 2 mm wide, involute; 
panicles 1 to 2 cm long, 1 to 2 mm wide; spikelets about 1.5 mm 
long (fig. 224). 
Borders of ponds and wet savannas at low altitudes, Central 
America and the West Indies to Brazil. 
Cupa: El Salado, Wright 3871. Herradura, Hitchcock 155; Léon 
15955. Guane, Léon 6998, 15354. Pinar del Rio, Mitchcock 23263, 
23281, 23297. Manacas, Léon 5868, 6045. Banao Mountains, Léon 
5402. Isla de Pinos, Britton and Wilson 15346, 15623. 
Jamaica: Bull Head Mountain, Hitchcock 9534 (Amer. Gr. Nat. 
Herb. 46). Hollis Savanna, Harris 12227. 
Without locality, Orcutt 7829. 
Harti: Acul-Samedi, Ekman 
H 9919. 
Dominican REPUBLIC: 
Santo Domingo, Wright, 
Parry, and Brummell 624. 
Sabana de la Mar, Ekman 
: H FIGURE'224.— Panicum 
HIGUEE BB it ACT Ae 15610. aad see views of 
oides. Twoviewsofspikelet, 6 spikelet, and floret, X 10 
and floret, X 10 (type). Puerto Rico: San Juan, (Wright 192). 
Chase 6769. 
TRINIDAD: Piarco Savanna, Hitchcock 10347; Broadway 2151a. 
Aripo Savanna, Hitchcock 10069%. 
30. Panicum beyeri Hitchc. and Ekman, sp. nov.“ 
Culms densely tufted, slender, weakly erect or reclining, glabrous, 
50 to 130 cm tall; sheaths glabrous; ligule a line of hairs less than 0.5 
mm long; blades numerous, glabrous, flat or mostly involute, very 
slender, elongate, 20 to 40 cm long or more, the broader ones as much © 
as 1.5 mm wide, mostly less than 1 mm wide, lax or reclining; panicles 
very slender and elongate, as much as 35 cm long, the branches 
few, remote, appressed, few-flowered, 5 to 15 mm long, the axis and 
branches very minutely puberulent or scaberulous; spikelets somewhat 
oblique on the puberulent pedicels, narrowly elliptic, acute, often 
gaping, glabrous, about 3 mm long; first glume broadly acute, 3- 
nerved, 1 mm long; second glume and sterile lemma equal, narrowed 
to an obtuse point, 5-nerved, the lemma with a palea nearly as long 
as itself but with no stamens; fertile lemma rather soft, acute, a 
64 Culmi dense caespitosi gracillimi glabri 50-130 cm alti debiles vel reclinati; laminae gracillimae debiles 
planes vel involutae elongatae 20-40 cm longae, interdum 1.5 mm latae, plerumque 0.5-1 mm latae; panicula 
gracillima elongata 30-35 em longa, ramis paucis remotis appressis paucifioris 5-15 mm longis; spiculae 
angustae glabrae acutae 3 mm longae, 
