MANUAL OF THE GRASSES OF THE WEST INDIES 343 
Cusa: Habana, Curtiss 693; Hitchcock 491; Léon 555; Liebmann 
346, 347, 348; Ekman 110, 13120. 
9. Setaria scandens Schrad.; Schult., Mant. 2: 279. 1824. 
Pamcum scandens Trin., Gram. Pan. 166. 1826. 
Chaetochloa scandens Scribn., in Donn. Smith, Enum. Pl. Guat. 5: 
91. 1899. 
Slender annual, much branched below, erect or soon geniculate- 
spreading; culms sometimes rooting at the lower nodes, as much as 
80 cm long; blades flat, linear-lanceolate, as much as 10 cm long and 
1 cm wide, scabrous, especially on upper surface, usually sparsely, 
sometimes densely, pilose on both surfaces; panicles slender, erect, 
cylindric, densely flowered, sometimes interrupted, especially at base, 
often purplish, as much as 
8 cm long, mostly less than 
5 mm thick, the axis softly 
pubescent and also long- 
villous, the scattered hairs 
often longer than the spike- 
lets; bristles somewhat flex- 
uous but not becoming im- 
pleate, 1 to 2 times as long 
as the spikelets, antrorsely 
scabrous except near the tip, 
there more or less retrorsely 
scabrous; spikelets about 1.5 
mm long, ovoid, turgid on the 
convex side; fertile lemma 
transversely striate or weakly 
rugose (fig. 313). 
Open ground, Guatemala 
to Paraguay; Cuba, Ja- 
maica, Hispaniola. Origi- 
nally described from a 
garden specimen in Vienna, 
the native country unknown. 
A weed in fields and waste 
places in Jamaica where FIGURE 313.—Setaria scandens, X 1 (Hitchcock 9723). 
it appears to be introduced. 
Cupa: Sierra de Nipe, Ekman 9798. 
JaMaAIcA: Cinchona, Hitchcock 9718, 9723. Portland Gap, Orcutt 
5419. Killits, Harris 11157. Mount Hybla, Harris 11380. Chapel- 
ton, Ridley 58. Malvern, Harris 9739. Troy, Hitchcock 9812. Ewar- 
ton, Hitchcock 9408. Davids Hill, Harris 12668. Resource, Perkins 
1140. Arntully, Orcutt 2732, 3063. Gordon Town, Hart 796, 1487. 
Hartt: Marmelade, Nash 693; Leonard 8112, 8257. Port-au-Prince, 
Cook, Scofield, and Doyle 62, 67; Ekman H 6633; Buch 1682, 1738. 
Caille la Croix, Leonard 7964. Dondou, Leonard 8565. Ennery, 
Leonard 8853, 9498. Furcy, Leonard 4555. Mission, Leonard 3705. 
Pétionville, Ekman H 1354. Morne Basil, Hkman H 2487. Bom 
bardopolis, Leonard 13475. 
Dominican Repusuic: Lagunas de Cenobi, Valeur 10. San José 
de Ocoa, Ekman H 12029. 
