MANUAL OF THE GRASSES OF THE WEST INDIES Bio 
second glume and sterile lemma somewhat unequal, 3- to 5-nerved; 
fertile lemma subterete, cartilaginous, gradually narrowed into a 
slender awn; palea as long as the body of the lemma and enclosed 
within it; staminate spikelets smaller, reduced to subequal lemma and 
palea. Slender tufted per- 
ennials with flat narrowly 
lanceolate blades, often 
reduced. The genus is 
named for the late Dr. 
Enk L. Ekman, indefati- 
gable botanical explorer. 
Type species, E. suba- 
phylla Hitche. 
Glume and sterile lemma much 
shorter than the floret. 
1. EK. SUBAPHYLLA. 
Glume and sterile lemma about 
as long as the body of the 
floret__.2. E. ARISTATA. 
1. Ekmanochloa suba- 
phylla Hitchc., sp. nov.*” 
Perennial; culms cespi- 
tose, slender, erect, rather 
wiry, glabrous, 50 to 100 
em tall; sheaths shorter 
than the internodes, gla- 
brous; ligule very minute; 
blades from minute to well 
developed, flat, 1 to 3.5 
cm long, 1 to 4mm wide, 
narrowly lanceolate, rath- 
er distinctly nerved, 
scaberulous or puberulent, 
with a puberulent petiole 
1 mm long or less; racemes 
conjugate, erect, appressed 
or approximate, the pistil- 
late one 3 to 4 cm long, 
the staminate about half as 
long, the rachis slender, te- 
rete or somewhat angular, 
glabrous; pistillate spike- 
lets appressed, distant (4 
to 6 mm), about 6 mm 
long excluding the awn, 
the pedicel 1 mm long or 
a little less, rather thick; Ficure 342—Mniochloa pulchella. Plant, X 1; staminate 
secon d elume i, 5 to 2mm Waient A ae of pistillate spikelet, and floret, x 10 
long, 3-nerved, glabrous, 
the sterile lemma similar but a little longer; fertile lemma glabrous, 
broadest about 2 mm above the base (about 0.7 mm thick), gradually 
narrowed above, the awn somewhat flexuous, slightly scaberulous, 1 
97 Perennis culmi caespitosi tenues erecti glabri 50-100 cm alti; vaginae plerumque sine laminis; laminae- 
perfectae planae anguste lanceolatae, minute scaberulae, usque ad 3 cm longae 1-4 mm latae; racemi appressi 
erecti, feminei3-4 cm longi, masculi breviores; spiculae femineae arista exclusa 6 mm longae; gluma 1.5-2 
mmm longa; spiculae masculae 2 mm longae. 
