MANUAL OF THE GRASSES OF THE WEST INDIES Shi 
1. Sacciolepis striata (L.) Nash, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 30: 383. 
1903. 
Holcus striatus L., Sp. Pl. 1048. 1753. Virginia. 
Panicum striatum Lam., Tabl. Encyel. 1: 172. 1791. 
Hymenachne striata Griseb., FI. 
Brit. W. Ind. 554. 1864. 
Aquatic or semiaquatic perennial, 
glabrous or the sheaths sometimes 
pubescent; culms 1 to 2 m tall, root- 
ing at the geniculate lower nodes, 
bearing a few erect flowering shoots; 
blades flat, linear-lanceolate, 8 to 15 
cm long, 5 to 10 mm wide; panicles 
10 to 15 em long, the branches 
appressed, or the lower somewhat 
spreading, as much as 5 cm long; 
spikelets glabrous, about 3.5 mm 
long, the pedicels slender, flexuous or 
curved (fig. 291, A). 
Swamps and ditches, southeastern 
United States and the West Indies. 
Cusa: Pinar del Rio, Wright 3885. 
Herradura, Ekman 10747. San Fran- 
FIGURE 291.—A, Sacciolepis striata. Plant, X 4%; two views of spikelet and floret, 
xX 10 (Chase 4240). B, S. myuros, X 10 (type). 
