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Sandy pine woods and palm barrens and wet savannas, southern 
United States and the Greater Antilles. 
Cusa: Cajdlbana, Léon 4835, 4840. Cayajabos, Léon 13227, 13566. 
Consolacién del Sur, Palmer and Riley 481. Guane, Shafer 10639; 
Léon 7005. Herradura, Hitchcock 116. La Guira, Léon 5177. 
Banao Mountains, Léon 7944. Placetas del Sur, Léon 6422. Mo- 
tembo, Ekman 16851. Without locality, Wright in 1865. Isla de 
Pinos, Palmer and Riley 982. 
JAMAICA: Hollis Savanna, Harris 12228. Pedro Morass, Harris 
11163. Bull Head Mountain, Hitchcock 
9535 (Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 89). 
Harti: Gros-Morne, Ekman H 4907. 
Acul du Nord, Ekman H 2908. Grand- 
Gosier, Ekman H 6856. 
' Dominican Repusuic: Constanza, 
Ekman H 14093. La Cumbre, Ekman 
H 11431. Moncidn, Ekman H 12680. 
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Puerto Rico: San Juan, Chase 6766. 
Santurce, Heller 982. Tabonico, Sintenis 5985. Sierra de Naguabo, 
Shafer 3530 in part [with P. leucothriz]. 
63. Panicum fusiforme Hitchc., Contrib. U.S. Natl. Herb. 12: 222. 
1909. Based on P. neuranthum var. ramosum Griseb. 
Panicum neuranthum var. ramosum Griseb., Cat. Pl. Cub. 232. 1866. 
Not P. ramosum L., 1767. Cuba, Wright 3454. 
Vernal culms erect, 30 to 70 cm tall; blades flat, gradually pointed, 
ascending, rather stiff, mostly 5 to 10 cm long, 4 to 8 mm wide, the 
lowermost softly pubescent beneath; panicles 4 to 10 cm long, the 
ower branches often reflexed; 
spikelets pubescent, fusiform, 
attenuate at base, about 3.5 mm 
long. Autumnal phase erect or 
reclining; blades soon involute, 
S560) Oo Cig lone (hea 5o)» 
Sandy pine woods, Georgia to 
Mississippi, Greater Antilles; 
British Honduras. 
CuBsa: Herradura, Hitchcock 
117, 23434; Baker and Dimmock, 
4846; Caldwell and Baker 7139; 
Tracy 9074. Pinar del Rio, 
Hitchcock 23257. Guane, Shafer 
10484; Léon 7007. Laguna Jo- 
FIGURE 255.—Panicum fusiforme. Two views of 
spikelet, and floret, X 10 (type). vero, Shafer 11049. Sabana de 
Chirigota, Léon 7451. Manacas, 
Léon 5840. La Cumbre, Ekman 13952. Guara, Hitchcock 23431. 
Western Cuba, Wright 3453 in part, 3454. Isla de Pinos, Ekman 11654. 
Jamaica: Bull Head Mountain, Hitchcock 9552. Hollis Savanna, 
Harris 12234. 
64. Panicum angustifolium Ell., Bot. S. C. and Ga. 1: 129. 1816. 
Florida. 
_ Vernal culms erect or nearly so, 30 to 50 cm tall, the lowermost 
internodes gray crisp-villous, the nodes glabrous; lower sheaths some- 
