MANUAL OF THE GRASSES OF THE WEST INDIES Dike 
blades 1 to 3 cm long, 2 to 6 mm wide, oblong-lanceolate, rounded 
or subcordate, spreading or reflexed, glabrous; panicles open, loosely 
- few-flowered, 2 to 4 cm long; spikelets turgid, blunt, glabrous, 1.5 
Ae Gh ; first glume a little more than half the length of the spikelet 
g@. 240). 
Wet savannas and margins of ponds and streams, Costa Rica and - 
the West Indies to Paraguay. 
Cupa: Pinar del Rio, Mitchcock 23277; Britton and Gager 7075. 
Los Almacigos, Wright 3458.. Herradura, Hitchcock 181, 23435; 
Baker 2078; Britton, Earle, and Gager 6494; Tracy 9060, 9079. Re- 
mates, Hkman 11359. Guane, Shafer 10659; Léon 6944, 15399. 
Laguna los Indios, Shafer 10803. Isla de Pinos, Britton and Wilson 
14235, 15624; Britton, Wilson, and Leon 6053. 
JAMAICA: Hollis Savanna, Harris 12221. James Hill Savanna, 
Harris 12839. 
Dominican Repusuic: Cuenca, Ekman H 10968. Rincon, Hkman 
H 13290. Jovero, Abbott 2539. 
Puerto Rico: Carolina, Britton and Brown 5720. Vega Baja, 
Chase 6796. Aguada, Sintenis 5719. San Juan, Chase 6358, 6630, 
6763, 6786. Campo Alegre, Chase 6615, 6788. Catano, Sintenis 
o719. 
Trinipap: O’Meara Savanna, Broadway 2372. Aripo Savanna, 
Hitchcock 10065, 10080 (Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 
72). Pitch Lake, Hitchcock 10100 (Amer. Gr. 
Nat. Herb. 210). Without locality, Broadway 
in 1918; Crueger 224. 
46. Panicum cyanescens Nees; Trin., Gram. 
Pan. 202. 1826; Agrost. Bras. 220. 
1829. Brazil. 
Perennial, bluish or glaucous; culms tufted,  “*‘wscens Two viewsctepive 
SU Oremiurall epladesttiat, rather frm) erect il) yet end fort, <0 (ype): 
to spreading or reflexed, 3 to 8 cm long, 4 to 5 
mm wide, oblong-lanceolate, glabrous; panicles open, 3 to 6 cm long; 
spikelets 1.5 mm long, turgid or subglobose, obtuse, glabrous; first 
glume obtuse, two-thirds as long as spikelet (fig. 241). 
Swamps and wet savannas, Trinidad to Brazil; Cuba; British 
Honduras. 
Cusa: Isla de Pinos, Hkman 12148; Britton and Wilson 14748a. 
TRINIDAD: Aripo Savanna, Hitchcock 10067. Piarco Savanna, 
Hitchcock 10349, 10354, 10364. Without locality, Finlay 88; Crueger 
2Onee 
47, Panicum nervosum Lam., Encycl. 4: 747. 1798. Cayenne. 
Stouter than P. cyanescens, the lower sheaths much overlapping; 
blades strongly nerved, cordate-clasping, widest near the base, 
gradually narrowing to a sharp point; panicle 10 to 15 cm long, open, 
the branches ascending. 
Savannas, Trinidad to Brazil. 
TRINIDAD: Aripo Savanna, Broadway 2377. 
48, Panicum venezuelae Hack., Oesterr. Bot. Ztschr. 51: 368. 1901. 
Venezuela. 
Panicum ineptum Hitche. and Chase, Contrib. U.S. Natl. Herb. 17: 
509. f.98. 1915. Santo Domingo, Bertero 817. 
