294 MISC. PUBLICATION 243, U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
branches from all the nodes; blades 3 to 12 cm long, 1 to 3 mm wide, 
flat to strongly involute; panicles numerous, 2 to 8 cm long, very 
narrow, the branches appressed; branchlets bearing 1 to 3 subsessile 
spikelets, 1.4 to 1.5 mm long, the bristle shorter 
than the spikelet (fig. 283). 
Limestone hills at low altitudes, Bahamas and 
Cuba. 
Banamas: Inagua, Hitchcock in 1890; Nash and 
Taylor 893 (both in Field Mus. Herb.). 
Cusa: Yayales, Ekman 11191. Mariel, Hkman 
en eee in 192° Manabana WW reghige tol: Marianao, 
tantiflorum. Twoviewsot Hkman 434; Léonin 1909. Cojimar, Baker 2670; 
epee ene Boe <i Hitchcock, 144, Rio) Almendares, eH iemam joni. 
Léon 2382, 12468. Habana, Léon 6299. Cayo 
de los Patos, Léon 9489. Cayo Romano, Shafer 2512. Santiago 
de Cuba, Léon 912, 917. Baracoa, Léon 12307. Guantdénamo, 
Ekman 2894, 10167. Isla de Pinos, Britton, Wilson, and Léon 15272. 
92. Panicum pradanum Léon, sp. nov.” 
Culms cespitose, ascending, 50 to 90 cm 
long, slender, wiry; sheaths shorter than the 
internodes, ciliate at the auriculate summit; 
ligule a ring of short hairs; blades flexuous to 
curled, strongly involute from base to apex, 
much narrower at base than the summit of 
the sheath, finally often becoming flat from. 
the middle towards the apex, 15 to 30 cm 
long, not more than 2 mm wide, often sparsely 
pubescent with short hairs on the upper sur- 
face, shghtly scabrous on the margin; pani- 
cles 15 to 35 cm long, the branches remote, 
appressed, the lower not more than 2 cm long, 
bearing few to several spikelets, the bristle 
from nearly obsolete to as long as the spikelet 
or longer; spikelets spreading, 1.8 to 2 mm 
long, somewhat beaked; first glume about 
two-fifths the length of the spikelet, acute, 
3-nerved; second glume about two-thirds the 
length of the spikelet, 5-nerved, rarely 7- 
nerved; sterile lemma 5-nerved, pointed; fruit 
1.8 mm long, minutely rugose, slightly beaked 
at the acute apex (fig. 284). 
Type in the United States National Her- 
beau no naenee, collected in open Uesets a ‘ 
on slope of Mesa de Prada, Lower Jauco Valley, P1GURE 284 Fantcum pradanum. 
Jauco, Province Oriente, Cuba, July 17 to x10 (ype). Ate came 
August 4, 1924, by Brother Léon (no. 11710). 
Open thickets and rocky slopes, eastern Cuba to Puerto Rico. 
Cusa: Jauco, Léon 11710. Santiago de Cuba, Ekman 8952. 
Haiti: Port-au-Prince, Ekman H 2020. Morne 4 Cabrits, Ekman 
H 1027. Port-de-Pai, Ekman H 5108; Leonard 11032, 11078. Caba- 
8 A P. utowanaeo differt foliis longioribus, involutis, vaginis vix compressis, paniculis longioribus (usque 
ad 30 cm), ramis remotis appressis; spiculis 1.8-2 min longis. 
