304 MISC. PUBLICATION 248, U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
indurate fruit, 3-nerved; fertile lemma 3-nerved; palea similar to the 
lemma but a little shorter, 2-nerved. Decumbent-spreading leafy 
perennial with flat blades and slender panicles. 
1, Paratheria prostrata Griseb., Cat. Pl. Cub. 236. 1866. Cuba, 
Wright in 1865. 
Chamaeraphis parvigluma Munro; Wright and Sauv., An. Acad. 
Cien. Habana 8: 208. 1871, nomen nudum. 
FIGURE 325.—Paratheria prostrata. Plant, X 4% (Wright 3906). 
Culms tufted, several-noded, sparingly branching, 20 to 60 cm 
long, the nodes pubescent; blades pubescent, mostly 3 to 5 cm long, 
sometimes longer, 2 to 3 mm wide; panicles 5 to 15 em long, more or 
less included in the uppermost sheath, the bristles appressed; spike- 
lets about 7 mm long, a few slender hairs at the base (fig. 325). 
Low moist ground, Cuba and Hispaniola; Brazil. 
