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Harti: Mission, Leonard 3830. Massif du Nord, Gros-Morne, 
Ekman H 5020. 
Dominican Repusuiic: Moncién, Hkman H 12894. 
TRINIDAD: O’Meara Savanna, Britton and Hazen 1577. Pitch 
Lake, Hitchcock 10095 (Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 232). Jerningham 
Junction, Broadway 4787. 
2. Imperata contracta (H. B. K.) Hitche., Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 4: 
146. 1898. 
Saccharum contractum H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Sp. 1: 182. 1816. 
Colombia. 
Saccharum caudatum Meyer, Prim. Fl. Esseq. 68. 1818. British 
Guiana. 
Anatherum caudatum Schult., Mant. 2: 445. 1824. 
meee ca portoricense Spreng., Syst. Veg. 1: 290. 1825. Puerto 
ico. 
Imperata caudata 'Trin., Mém. Acad. St. Pétersb. VI. Math. Phys. 
INata23)33 bl832) 
Taller than the preceding, the culms leafy, the panicle as much as 
40 cm long. | 
Swamps and moist open ground, southern Mexico and the West 
Indies to Brazil. 
Cusa: Colonia San Rafael, Léon 5682. La Prenda, Hioram 2408. 
Bayate, Ekman 5877. 
JAMAICA: Berwick, Harris 11532. Westphalia, Harris 11569. 
Troy, Hitchcock 9804; Harris 12619. Resource, Harris 12416. With- 
out locality, Wilson. Grand Cayman, Hitchcock in 1891. 
Harti: Morne Basil, Ekman H 2488. Massif de la Hotte, Ekman 
H 7341. Aux Cayes, Ekman H 255. 
Dominican Repustic: Valle del Cibao, Ekman H 13284. Jara- 
baco, Ekman H 14127. 
Puerto Rico: Hato Grande, Sintenis 2720. Cayey, Chase 6746. 
Arecibo, Chase 6438. Without locality, Eggers 602. 
LEEWARD IsLtanps: Guadeloupe, Duss 3886. 
WINDWARD Isuanps: Martinique, Duss 1306. 
TRINIDAD: Icacos, Broadway 4963. Cedros, Hitchcock 10142. St. 
Joseph, Hitchcock 10027. California, Hitchcock 10119. Without 
locality, Bot. Gard. Herb. 3379. 
Tosaco: Hitchcock 10273. 
MiIscANTHUS SINENSIS Anderss., Ofv. Svensk. Vet. Akad. Forh. 12: 
166. 1856. EULALIA. 
Tall reed growing in large bunches, 1 to 3 m tall, with flat mostly 
basal blades, about 1 m long and 1 cm wide, gradually narrowed to a 
slender point; panicle fan-shaped, consisting of numerous silky 
racemes 10 to 20 cm long, aggregate at the summit of the culm. 
Occasionally cultivated for ornament. Native of Asia. 
Cupa: Habana, Léon 2012. 
102. SACCHARUM L., Sp. Pl. 54. 1753 
Spikelets in pairs, one sessile, the other pedicellate, both perfect, 
awnless, arranged in panicled racemes, the axis disarticulating below 
the spikelets; glumes somewhat indurate, sterile lemma similar but 
hyaline; fertile lemma hyaline, sometimes wanting. ‘Tall perennials 
with feathery panicles. 
