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1. Setaria barbata (Lam.) Kunth, Rév. Gram. 1: 47. 1829. 
Panicum barbatum Lam., Tabl. Eneycl. 1: 171. 1791. Mauritius. 
Chaetochloa barbata Hitche. and Chase, Contrib. U. S. Natl. Herb. 
NSS o4S2) OMT. 
Branching annual; culms decumbent, spreading, often rooting at 
the lower nodes, glabrous, scabrous, or villous near the pubescent 
nodes, as much as 2 m long, but often much less; blades narrowly 
elliptic, flat and rather thin, as much as 30 cm long and 2.5 cm wide, 
distinctly plicate in large specimens, obscurely so in dwarf ones; 
panicles green, as much as 20 cm long, the branches ascending or 
spreading, as much as 4 
cm long; spikelets oblong- 
elliptic, glabrous, about 
2.5 mm long, tending to 
be in two rows along the 
branches, atleast along the 
upper part, often clustered 
on branchlets on the lower 
part of the branches, the 
bristles flexuous, 5 to 10 
mm long, usually rather 
numerous (fig. 305). 
Thickets and waste 
places, tropical Asia; in- 
troduced in the Americas, 
West Indies to Brazil. 
Grisebach ® and Hooker ®! 
described thisspecies under 
Panicum flavescens Swartz. 
Common in the Lesser 
Antilles and in Jamaica. 
No specimens have been 
seen from Cuba. Called 
“Mary grass’ in Tobago. 
JAMAICA: Castleton, 
ee oe alan Gr. 
Nat. Herb. 603). on- a ME Hoa Ane 
eague, Mazon and Killip Pa yee Ge Natt 603) ee 
367. Ferry, Ridley 48; 
Harris 11782. Bog Walk, Hitchcock 9308; Ridley 59. Troy, Harris 
12587; Hitchcock 9793. Kingston, Cockerell in 1892; Hitchcock 9270, 
9277,9473. Ipswich, Hitchcock 9604. Alligator Pond, Hitchcock 9834. 
Buff Bay, Hitchcock 9768. Montego Bay, Hitchcock 9694. Mavis 
Bank, Harris 11602. Temple Hall, Harris 11360. Gordon Town, 
Harris 11511. Claremont, Hitchcock 9515. Ewarton, Hitchcock 
9412. 
Dominican Repusuic: Rio San Juan, Miller 1143. Sostia, Hkman 
H 14521. Los Haitises, Ekman H 15494. Samand, Hkman H 
14889, H 14931, H 14989. 
#0 Fl, Brit. W. Ind. 547. _ 1864. 
81 Fl. Brit. Ind. 7: 56. 1896, 
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