MANUAL OF THE GRASSES OF THE WEST INDIES DIA 
40. Panicum frondescens Meyer, Prim. Fl. Esseq. 56. 1818. 
British Guiana. 
Hymenachne frondescens Fourn., Mex. Pl. 2: 36. 1886. 
Culms erect or ascending from a creeping base, 30 to 50 cm tall; 
blades 5 to 11 cm long, 12 to 20 mm long, acuminate, glabrous; 
panicles 5 to 11 cm long, with numerous approximate racemes 10 
to 25 em long; spikelets about 2.7 mm long, glabrous (fig. 235). 
Swamps and wet places at low altitudes, Mexico and Lesser 
Antilles to Brazil. 
LEEWARD IsuANnps: Guadeloupe, L’Herminier 137. 
WINDWARD Istanps: Smith and Smith 187 (Krug and Urban 
Herb.). 
eer’ Blanchisseuse, Broadway 2390. Arima, Broadway 2371. 
Oropuche, Broadway 6171. Mount Tamana, Broadway 7980. With- 
out locality, Crueger 85. 
41. Panicum pulchellum Raddi, Agrost. Bras. 42. 1823. Brazil. 
Perennial; culms spreading or creeping, branching, the nodes 
pubescent; blades thin, 
flat, 1.5 to 4 cm long, 
4 to 15 mm wide; 
panicles oblong, 
2 to 12) cm slone. ithe 
racemes 5 to 15 mm 
long; spikelets about 
2 2mom 9 lone." hispid, 
FIGURE 236.—Panicum pulchel- bearing on the sterile Ficure 237,—Panicum schiffneri. 
lum. Two views of spikelet, : Two views of spikelet, and 
and floret, X 10 (Raddi). lemma 2 sessile olands floret, X 10 (type). 
(hie 236). 
Moist shady places, southern Mexico and Windward Islands to 
Brazil. 
eee Istanps: Martinique, Duss 767 (Krug and Urban 
erb.). 
42. Panicum schiffneri Hack., Ergeb. Bot. Exped. Akad. Wiss. 
Sudbras. 11. 1906. Brazil. 
Perennial, branching and rooting at the nodes; culms ascending, 
2 to 3 m long; sheaths papillose-hispid; blades 10 to 15 cm long, 
12 to 25 mm wide, scabrous; panicles 10 to 15 cm long, the few 
slender scabrous branches remote, the spikelets approximate along the 
upper part; spikelets glabrous, elliptic, about 2 mm long; first glume 
less than one-fourth the length of the spikelet; fruit elliptic, 1.5 mm 
long, sparsely silky (fig. 237). 
set shady banks and slopes, Mexico and the West Indies to 
razil, 
Harti: Pétionville, Hkman H 1927. Le Borgne, Ekman H 4791. 
Dominican Repusuic: Polo, Abbott 1808. Jarabaco, Hkman H 
14178. Loma Diego de Ocampo, Hkman H 16301. Sierra de Ocoa, 
Ekman H 11646. 
Puerto Rico: Maricao, Chase 6198, 6247 (Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 
512). Adjuntas, Chase 6474. Cayey, Chase 6745. 
WinDwarp Istanps: Martinique, Hahn 616. 
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