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Cusa: Retiro, Wright 3881. Arroyo Hondo, Wright 3858. Mo- 
gote de Mono, Wright 3882. San Blas, Jack 6766. Cabafias, 
Ekman 12967. Mogote de la Bandera, Roig 3271. Sierra de Anafe, 
Léon 2873; Wilson and Léon 11538. Mendoza, Léon 3635. Banao 
Mountains, Léon 3997, 7866. La Perla, Léon 3908. Bayote, Hk- 
man 2383. Sierra Maestra, Léon 10078, 10153; Ekman 1569, 8299, 
8815. Sierra de Nipe, Ekman 9872. 
JAMAICA: Gordon Town, Harris 11476; Hart 923. Claremont, 
Hitchcock 9523 (Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 582). Catherines Peak, 
Hitchcock 9741. Castleton, Harris 11296. Clyde River, Harris 
11447. Troy, Hitchcock 9798; Harris 12595. Windsor, Miller 1516. 
Haiti: Mission, Leonard 3975. Pétionville, Leonard 4858, 5052. 
EO Uae: Ekman H 9105, H9505. Morne Cabaio, Ekman 
1680. 
Dominican Repustic: Old Heart River, Abbott 1366. Sanchez, 
Abbott 172. 
Puerto Rico: Cayey, Sintenis 2406. 
LEEWARD IsLANps: St. Kitts, Box 139, 141, 144, 145; Britton and 
Cowell 632. Nevis, Box 168. 
WINDWARD IsLANpDs: Grenada, Broadway 177. 
Trinipap: Mount Tucuche, Britton, Hazen, and Mendelson 1328. 
Blanchisseuse Road, Broadway 6004. Balandra Bay, Britton and 
Hazen 432. Caparo, Broadway 4931. Port-of-Spain, Hitchcock 
10041. 
5. Ichnanthus pallens (Swartz) Munro; Benth., Fl. Hongk. 414. 
1861. 
Panicum pallens Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 23. 1788. Jamaica. 
Culms much branched, spreading, creeping at the base, rooting at 
the nodes, the fertile culms ascending, 30 to 80 cm long, puberuient; 
blades lanceolate, often somewhat falcate, 5 to 10 cm long, 1 to 2 cm 
wide, somewhat clasping at the asymmetric narrowed base, glabrous 
or nearly so, but more or less scaberulous on the upper surface; 
panicles terminal and from several of the upper axils, 5 to 10 cm long, 
the spikelets appressed along the ascending branches; spikelets 3 to 
3.5 mm, glabrous, the glumes and sterile lemma acuminate or more 
or less attenuate-pointed; appendages of fertile lemma reduced to 
scars (fig. 288). 
Shady banks and rich woods, tropical regions of America in low 
and medium altitudes. To be found on probably all the West Indian 
islands from the Greater Antilles to Trinidad. 
6. Ichnanthus axillaris (Nees) Hitche. and Chase, Contrib. U. S. 
Natl. Herb. 18: 334. 1917. 
Panicum azillare Nees, Agrost. Bras. 141. 1829. Brazil. 
Differing from JI. pallens in the firmer broader blades (ovate or 
ovate-lanceolate), often very scabrous on the upper surface, cordate- 
clasping at base, larger panicles, and often sparsely pilose ‘spikelets. 
Moist more or less shaded slopes in the uplands, Central America to 
Brazil; Hispaniola, Puerto Rico; Trinidad, Tobago. 
Haiti: Plaisance, Leonard 9190. 
Dominican Repustuic: Los Haitises, Ekman H 15512. La Cumbre 
Ekman H 14215. Bayaguana, Ekman H 11096. Altagracia, Ekman 
H 11256, H 11257 
