270 MISC. PUBLICATION 243, U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
Panicum laxum var. variegatum Griseb., Cat. Pl. Cub. 233. 1866. 
Cuba, Wright 3450. 
Panicum tricolor Hack., Oesterr. Bot. Ztschr. 51: 370. 1901. 
Fortune Island, Hggers 3978. 
Perennial; culms tufted, sometimes sending out prostrate stolons, 
decumbent at base, 15 to 50 cm tall; blades 2 to 6 cm long, 0.5 to 
1.5 mm wide, glabrous; panicles 3 to 10 em long, the branches few, 
spreading or reflexed at maturity; spikelets 1.5 mm long, glabrous, 
clustered on short branchlets; sterile palea enlarging at maturity, 
expanding the spikelet (fig. 233). : 
Low savannas and moist sandy woods, Cuba and Haiti. 
Bauamas: Fortune Island, Witchcock in 1890. 
CusBa: Santa Cruz de los Pinos, Ekman in 1923 (Amer. Gr. Nat. 
Herb. 702). Herradura, Hitchcock 179; Tracy 9075. Pinar del Rio, 
Hitchcock 23273, 23278. Guane, Léon 6948, 7004, 7008. Guana- 
bacoa, Hkman 572; Léon 911, 9138, 5608, 5624; Mitehcock 23241. 
Madruga, Léon 6377, 14690. San Juan de Buena Vista, Wright 
755. Chirigota, Wright 3450, 3877 in part. Zaza de Tunas, Léon 
FIGURE 233.—FPani- FIGURE 234.—Pani- FIGURE 235.—Pani- 
cum exiguiflorum. cum stoloniferum. cum _ frondescens 
Spikelet and floret, Spikelet and flo- Spikelet and flo- 
< 10 (Wright 3450). ret, X 10 (type). ret, X 10 (type). 
902, 6730. Sancti Spiritus, Léon 2566. Gavilanes, Léon 6654. 
Manacas, Léon 9277. Soledad, Hitchcock 23330. Baragué, Hitchcock 
23356. Bayate, Ekman 2443. Isla de Pinos, Britton and Wilson 
14699, 15381; Taylor 35. 
Haiti: Morne Belanse, Hkman H 4916. 
39. Panicum stoloniferum Poir., in Lam., Encycl. Sup. 4: 274. 1816. 
Cayenne. 
Perennial; plants creeping, branching, 10 to 50 cm long; blades 
flat, 1 to 5 cm long, 3 to 15 mm wide; panicles 1 to 5 cm long, with 
few to several racemes 5 to 10 mm long; spikelets about 2.5 mm 
long, glabrous (fig. 234). 
Moist shady places, Central America and the Lesser Antilles to 
Brazil. 
Winpwarp Isuanps: Martinique, Duss 1291 (Krug and Urban 
Herb.). 
Trinipap: Maracas, Broadway 6078, 7239. Ortoire River, Britton, 
Freeman, and Nowell 2539. Caura River, Britton and Hazen 1204. 
Port-of-Spain, Bot. Gard. Herb. 2293. Arima, Broadway 2370. 
Oropuche, Broadway 5582. Blanchisseuse, Broadway 6907. Cha- 
cuanas, Bot. Gard. Herb. 3747. Without locality, Crueger 79. 
