382 MISC. PUBLICATION 243, U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
1. Erianthus giganteus (Walt.) Muhl., Cat. Pl. 4. 1813. 
SUGARCANE PLUMEGRASS. 
Anthoxanthum giganteum Walt., Fl.Carol.65. 1788. South Carolina. 
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FIGURE 346.—Eriochrysis cayennensis, X 4% (Hioram 818). 
Erianthus saccharoides 
Michx., Fl. Bor. Amer. 1: 
55. 1803. Carolina to 
Florida. 
Robust tall erect peren- 
nial with long harshly pu- 
bescent blades and tawny or 
purplish plumy panicles up 
to 40 cm long (fig. 347). 
Swamps and moist soil 
from New Jersey to Florida 
and Texas on the Coastal 
Plain; also in Cuba. 
Cupa: Laguna San Ma- 
teo, Wright 3903. Laguna 
Jovero to Laguna Herra- 
dura, Shafer 10934. Bata- 
bano, Ekman 12586; Léon 
13443. Cayo delos Pavos, 
Ciénaga de Zapata, Léon 
9529. Sabana del Guani, 
Fernando 434. 
Dominican REPUBLIC: 
Sanchez, Ekman H 15937. 
ERIANTHUS RAVENNAE 
(L.) Beauv., Ess. Agrost. 
TAMIG20177. gto (Sae 
charum jamarcense Trin., 
Erianthus gamaicensis 
Anderss.; H#. ravennae var. 
jamaicensis Hack.) was de- 
scribed by Trinius from 
Jamaica, but his specimen 
was doubtless a culti- 
vated plant, the species be- 
ing grown for ornament in 
warm climates. 
105. AR T PR AXON 
Beauv., Ess. Agrost. 
ill, pli h6. eae 
Perfect spikelets awned, 
sessile, the secondary 
spikelet and its pedicel 
wanting or present only at 
the lower joints of the filiform articulate rachis; racemes terminating 
the branches of a dichotomously forking panicle, in appearance 
subdigitate or fascicled. Branching annuals with broad blades and 
slender racemes. 
