388 MISC. PUBLICATION 248, U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
LrrwarpD Istanps: Antigua, Rose 3382, 3415; Bor 37, 112, 123. 
Guadeloupe, Duss 3678. 
Winpwarp Isuanps: Barbados, Bot. Sta. Herb. 443. Grenada, 
Hitchcock 17679; Meyers 4590. 
5. Andropogon brevifolius Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 26. 
1788. Jamaica. 
Andropogon obtusifolius Poir.,in Lam., Encycl. Sup. 1: 583. 1810. 
Puerto Rico. 
Pollina bremfolia Spreng., Pl. Pugill. 2:13. 1815. 
Schizachyrium brewfolium Nees; Kunth, Enum. Pl. 1: 488. 1833. 
Sorghum brevfolium Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 791. 1891. 
Slender trailing or reclining glabrous branching annual; culms 
from 15 cm to as much as 1 m long; blades flat, obtuse; racemes 
ane 1 to 2 cm long; spikelets about 3 mm long; awns 4 to 8 mm 
ong. 
Moist banks, tropical regions of both hemispheres. To be found 
jn probably all of the West Indian islands from Cuba to Trinidad. 
Not represented in collections from Bermuda and the Bahamas. 
6. Andropogon malacostachyus Presl, Rel. Haenk. 1: 337. 1830. 
Mexico. 
Schizachyrium malacostachyum Nash, N. Amer. Fl. 17: 102. 1912. 
Rather slender erect or spreading, glabrous, pale or reddish brown 
annual; culms 30 to 100 cm long; blades flat, 1 to 4 mm wide; racemes 
slender, 2 to 3 cm long, more or Jess enclosed in the spathes on the 
erect branches along the upper part of the culm; sterile pedicels and 
joints of the rachis villous; sessile spikelet 7 mm long, the awn about 
Io@iane 
Dry slopes and rocky hills, southern Mexico to Colombia; Cuba. 
Cusa: Habana (Vibora), Léon 1956. Guanabacoa, Hitchcock 479, 
23225; Léon 1529. Without locality, Ekman 13559. 
7. Andropogon condensatus H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Sp. 1: 188. 
1816. Colombia. 
Andropogon microstachyus Desv.; Hamilt., Prodr. Pl. Ind. Occ. 8. 
1825. Antilles. 
Schizachyrium condensatum Nees, Agrost. Bras. 333. 1829. 
Pollinia microstachya Desv., Opusc. 70. 1831. 
Robust tufted erect glabrous perennial, 1 to 1.5 m tall; culm re- 
peatedly branching toward the summit, forming a large corymbose 
compound inflorescence; blades 10 to 20 cm long, 5 to 10 mm wide, 
usually stiffly spreading; racemes 2 to 3 cm long, the slender rachis 
very flexuous, the pedicels and rachilla joints long-villous; awns deli- 
cate, about 12 mm long. 
Open, rather dry ground, eastern Mexico and the southern West 
Indies to Argentina. 
LrEwarpD Isutanps: Guadeloupe, Duss 3817. Dominica, Hitchcock 
16432; Jones 8. 
Winpwarp Isuanps: Martinique, Hitchcock 16464; Duss 1297, 
4026; Hahn 690. St. Lucia, Hitchcock 16472; Brooks 30; Kemp 6; 
Box 192. St. Vincent, Eggers 6577. Grenada, Broadway 1783. 
TRINIDAD: Port-of-Spain, Hitchcock 9998, 10038. Point-é-Pierre, 
Broadway 4945. Cedros, Broadway 4949. Burkes Pasture, Bot. 
Gard. Herb. 3383. 
Topsaco: Broadway 4799; Hitchcock 10206. 
