MANUAL OF THE GRASSES OF THE WEST INDIES Dili 
Cusa: Damnji, Ekman 11004. Santa Cruz de les Bafios, Wright 
3872. 
TrinipaD: Cedros, Broadway 9286. Caroni Savanna, Hart 4197. 
Without locality, Crueger. 
53. Panicum trigonum Retz., Obs. Bot. 3: 9. 1783. India. 
Cyrtococcum trigonum A. Camus, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. [Paris] 27: 
Se LOZ: 
Annual; culms branching, slender, 10 to 30 cm long; blades flat, 
lanceolate, sparsely pilose, 1 to 3 cm long, 3 to 5 mm wide; panicles 
few-flowered, 1 to 3 cm long, open or contracted; spikelets somewhat 
laterally compressed, pilose, about 1.7 mm long, the second glume 
keeled and bulged out at the middle. 
Shady places, Trinidad; introduced. 
TRINIDAD: Port-of-Spain, forming a thick carpet under trees 
in the Botanic Garden, Hitchcock 17661; Broadway 4891, 8017 
(Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 706); Bailey in 1921. 
54. Panicum grande Hitchc. and Chase, Con- 
Ut w Wey o Natienkierb, 17a) 629.1. 143) 
1915. Canal Zone. 
Panicum myrianthum Mez, Bot. Jahrb. 
Engler 56: Beibl. 125: 38. 1921. Guiana. 
Perennial, gregarious, producing extensively 
creeping or floating leafy stolons about 5 mm 
thick; culms 1.5 to 2 m tall, the nodes densely 
hirsute; blades flat, as much as 1 m long and 
6 cm wide, narrowed toward base and apex, Figure 247.—Panicum 
glabrous, somewhat plicate; panicles as much  {pittelst, “and flores >< 10 
as 60 cm long and 40 cm wide, open; spikelets (type). 
2.5 mm long, pointed, glabrous (fig. 247). 
Lakes, ponds, and swamps, near the coast, growing in the water, 
Central America to Brazil; Cuba, Trinidad. 
Cupa: Baracoa, Ekman 3487. 
TRINIDAD: St. Joseph, Hitchcock 10022. Manzanilla, Hitchcock 
10376. Caroni, Broadway 5859. Cedros, Hitchcock 10148; Broadway 
4957. Naset, Broadway 9110. 
55. Panicum asperifolium (Desv.) Hitchc., Contrib. U. S. Natl. 
Herb. 22: 489. 1922. 
Streptostachis asperifolia Desv., Nouv. Bull. Sci. Philom. Paris 2: 
190. 1810. Tropical America. 
Pamcum streptostachys Spreng., Syst. Veg. 1: 316. 1825. Based 
on Streptostachys aspera Desv. (error for asperifolia). 
Plants about 1 m tall from a decumbent base; sheaths glabrous or 
hirsute; blades thin, as much as 20 cm long and 3.5 cm wide, cordate- 
clasping; panicle of a few distant spreading branches, the spikelets 
and branchlets appressed; spikelets 4 mm long, oblong, obtuse, 
pubescent, the base hardened and ringlike; first glume as long as the 
spikelet. 
Damp forests at low altitudes, Trinidad to Brazil. 
TrinipaD: Chaguasamas, near the sea, Broadway 6741. 
