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Cuspa: Herradura, Tracy 9068. Pinar del Rio, Ekman 17287; 
Hitchcock 23306. Sumidero, Léon 3397. Madruga, Léon 6326. 
Placetas del Sur, Léon 6432. Manacas, Léon 5818. Almacigos, 
Wright 3482. 
Jamaica: Jacks Hill, Harris 12865. Hope, Harris 12686. New- 
castle, Hitchcock 9343. Barican, Hitchcock 9575. Without locality, 
Harris 11439. 
Haiti: Nouvelle Touraine, Buch 1686. Corail, Ekman H 10763. 
Furey, Ekman H 1744. 
Dominican Repustic: Rincén, Ekman H 13289. 
16. Andropogon multinervosus (Nash) Hitche. and Chase, Contrib. 
U.S. Natl. Herb. 18: 280. 1917. 
Schizachyrium multinervosum Nash, N. Amer. Fl. 17: 109. 1912. 
Cuba, Britton and Shafer 608. 
Wiry, sparingly branching perennial with filiform blades and few 
racemes; culms 20 to 40 cm tall; racemes 3 to 6 cm long; 
sessile spikelet 4 to 5 mm long, glabrous, minutely bearded 
at base, the awn about 1 cm long; pedicellate spikelet 
much reduced, the pedicel ciliate above on one side. 
Rocky hills and palm barrens, Cuba. 
Cuspa: Canasi, Hkman 17187; Léon 13058, 13120. 
Santayana, Hkman 19038; Britton 2414. Madruga, Léon 
6326; Britton and Shafer 608. Santa Clara City, Léon 
14960, 15610. 
17. Andropogon virgatus Desv.; Hamilt., Prodr. PI. 
Ind. Occ. 9. 1825. Antilles. 
Hypogynium spathflorum Nees, Agrost. Bras. 366. 
1829. Brazil. 
Anatherum virgatum Desv., Opuse. 71. 1881. 
Andropogon spathiflorus Kunth, Rév. Gram. 1: Sup. 
XL. 1830. 
Andropogon inermis Steud., Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 390. 
1854. Colombia. 
Anatherum spathiflorum Griseb., Cat. Pl. Cub. 236. 
1866. 
FIGURE 352.— 
Anatherum inerme Griseb., Cat. Pl. Cub. 236. 1866. ~ Andropogon 
Glabrous tufted perennial: culms compressed, rigid, (Rai 986). 
about 1 m tall; blades 2 to 4 mm wide; inflorescence 
elongate, of numerous olabrous racemes about 1 cm long, partly en- 
closed in rufous or purplish spathes; spikelets 3 to 4 mm long, awnless. 
Wet, sandy open swamps or savannas, West Indies and Central 
America to Brazil. 
Cupa: Laguna Santa Maria, Ekman 17258. Pinar del Rio, 
Hitchcock 23274. Herradura, Baker and Dimmock 4814. Guane, 
Léon 6988. Los Almacigos, Wright 3480, 3481. Isla de Pinos, 
Taylor 23; Curtiss 460; Britton and Wilson 14310. 
Domintcan REPUBLIC: Cotuy, Abbott 812, 846, 2805a, 2814. 
Cuenca, Ekman H 11010. Without locality, W: right, Parry, and 
Brummel 625. 
Puerto Rico: San Juan, Chase 6633, 6768. Campo Alegre, Chase 
6620. Lares, Sintenis 5902. 
Trinipap: Arima, Broadway 2373. Arouca, Hitchcock 10348. 
Comuto Station, Hitchcock 10070. 
