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Culms slender, straggling or spreading, 20 to 40 cm long; blades 
lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 2 to 5 cm long, 3 to 6 mm wide, 
glabrous, abruptly narrowed into a petiole 1 to 5 mm long or on 
sterile shoots as much as 15 mm long; panicles 2 to 10 cm long, the 
few main branches rather stiffly spreading or ascending, as much as 
3 cm long; spikelets about 3 mm long, lanceolate, nearly terete, acute, | 
elabrous, the pedicels 0.5 to 2 mm long. 
Dry pine woods and palm barrens, Cuba. 
Cupa: Arroyo Hondo, Wright 3880. Rio Santa Cruz, Ekman 
17647. Sierra de las Guacamayas, Hkman 17992. Madruga, Léon 
6373. Campo Florido, Léon 3450, 4143; 
Ekman 13246. Minas, Ekman 13139. San 
Miguel de los Bafios, Léon 8885. Banao 
Mountains, Léon 8045, 8045%. Soledad, 
Hitchcock 23331. Sierra de Nipe, Ekman 
2166, 2243, 3327, 9990; Shafer 2966, 3058. 
Guara, Hitchcock 23406, 23421. Jauco ~* 
River, Léon 12322. Baracoa, Kkman 3569, \ 
4325. Guantinamo, Hkman 10289. Isla \ 
de Pinos, Ekman 12294, 12304, 12447. 
2. Ichnanthus conjunctus Hitche. and 
Ekman, sp. nov.® 
Culms branching and creeping, rooting 
at the nodes, slender, glabrous except for a 
FIGURE 287.—Ichnanthus conjunctus. Plant, X 1; spikelet and floret, x 10 (type). 
rather indistinct pubescent line, sulcate, the node sparsely and mi- 
nutely pubescent, thefertile branches ascending, 3 to 8 cm long; sheaths 
half as long as the nodes or less, sulcate, glabrous except the 
ciliate margin and throat; ligule a ciliate membrane about 0.5 mm 
long; blades ovate to ovate-lanceolate, thin, 5 to 18 mm long, as 
6 Culmi ramosi repentes graciles, ramis fertilibus adscendentibus 3-8 cm longis; laminae ovatae vel 
ovato-lanceolatae tenues 5-18 mm longae glabrae; paniculae angustae pauciflorae_ 2 cm longae, ramis ap- 
pressis 5-10 mm longis; spiculae lanceolatae acutae glabrae 3 mm longae; gluma prima 1.5 mm longa acuta 
3-nervis; lemma fertile non alatum. 
