MANUAL OF THE GRASSES OF THE WEST INDIES 387 
Moist cliffs and shady banks, Mexico and Cuba to Brazil; also in 
tropical Africa. 
Cusa: Holguin, Ekman 15732. 
JAMAICA: Halls Delight, Harris 12460. Barican, Hitchcock 9565. 
Mount Charles, Harris 11558. Flamstead, Harris 11471. Narbrook, 
Harris 12712. 
Haiti: St. Michel de l’Atalaye, Leonard 7383. Ennery, Ekman 
H 2472. Port-au-Prince, Ekman H 2184; Leonard 15838; Buch 1777, 
1899. 
Dominican Repus.Lic: Constanza, Ekman H 13964. 
2. Andropogon annulatus Forsk., Fl. Aegypt. Arab. 173. 1773. 
Egypt. 
Andropogon bladhi Retz., Obs. Bot. 2: 27. 1781. China. 
Andropogon annulatus var. bladhii Hack., in DC., Monogr. Phan. 
6: 572. 1889. 
Dichanthium annulatum Stapf, in Prain, Fl. Trop. Afr. 9: 178. 
1917. 
Culms ascending from a decumbent base, 50 to 100 cm long, the 
nodes pubescent; blades flat, 5 to 20 cm long, tapering to a fine point: 
racemes usually 3 to 6, sometimes more (var. bladhii (Retz.) Hack.), 
3 to 7 cm long; sessile and pedicellate spikelets alike, the first glumes 
imbricate, oblong, rounded at summit. 
Ditches, roadsides, and open ground, sparingly introduced; a 
native of the Old World. 
Cusa: Paso Real to San Diego, Léon 5077. Jibacoa, Léon 14215. 
Corral Nuevo, Léon 15463. 
Haiti: Port-au-Prince, Ekman H 9126 (var. bladhii). 
Puerto Rico: Aguirre, Britton and Earle 6494. 
3. Andropogon caricosus L., Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 1840. 1763. India. 
Andropogon annulatus var. subrepens Hack., Notizbl. Bot. Gart. 
Berlin 1: 327. 1897. (Guadeloupe, Duss 3678. 
Decumbent, freely branched low perennial with flat blades 2 to 
8 cm long and solitary or paired racemes, the sterile spikelets as con- 
spicuous as the fertile ones, giving the appearance of a flat 2-ranked 
scaly spike; awns slender, twisted, and bent. 
Waste places; introduced in a few places in the West Indies from 
southern Asia. 
Cupa: Habana, Ekman 1263, 18300; Léon 2389. Santiago de las 
Vegas, Juzepezuk 4055. Guanabacoa, Wilson 9163; Hitchcock 23228, 
Zeus eon, 2043, 2514, 15111, 15112. 
LEEWARD IsLtanps: Guadeloupe, Duss 3678; Hitchcock 16413. 
WINDWARD JsLanps: St. Lucia, Watts in 1909. 
4, Andropogon nodosus (Willem.) Nash, N. Amer. Fl. 17: 122. 1912. 
Dichanthium nodosum Willem., Ann. Bot. Usteri 18: 11. 1796. 
Mauritius. 
Similar to A. caricosus (possibly only a variety of that species), 
somewhat larger, the blades and racemes longer; culm pubescent 
below the inflorescence. 
Waste places; introduced in a few places in the West Indies from 
the Tropics of the Old World. 
Cusa: Jibacoa, Léon 13854. 
