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erect, so closely appressed to each other as often to appear like a single 
spike; spikelets 3 to 4 mm long, obtuse, the awn about 1.5 cm long. 
Waste places in Cuba and Jamaica; introduced from the Old 
World. 
Cupa: Madruga, Curtiss 533. Manacas, Léon 5886. Bayate, 
Ekman 10063. Camp la Gloria, south of Sierra Moa, Shafer 8104. 
JAMAICA: Savanna-la-Mar, Hitch- 
cock 9858. 
TRINIDAD: Rio Claro, Bot. Gard. 
Herb. 12075. 
2. Ischaemum latifolium (Spreng.) 
Kunth, shéve Gram. 1: 168% 
1829. 
Andropogon latifolius Spreng., 
Dyse. Vier: 286. 1825. 
Ischaemopogon latifolius Griseb., 
Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 560. 1864. Gua- 
deloupe and Martinique. 
Perennial, spreading and strag- 
gling, decumbent, rooting at the 
lower nodes; blades oblong-lanceo- 
late, as much as 20 cm long and 3 
cm wide; racemes 5 to 15, 4 to 8 
em long (fig. 367). 
Moist, shady places, southern 
Mexico and the Lesser Antilles to 
Brazil and Ecuador. 
LEEWARD ISLANDs: Guadeloupe, 
Duss 2696; Stehlé 111. Dominica, 
Jones 17, 41. 
WINDWARD ISLANDs: Martinique, 
Hitchcock 16459; Hahn in 1867- 
1870. St. Vincent, Kggers 6710. | 
Trinipab: Bot. Gard. Herb. 3380. 
IscCHAEMUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM 
(Trin.) Hack., in Hook., Icon. PI. 
18: pl. 1773. 1888. In the her- 
barium of the Botanical Depart- 
ment, Trinidad, is a specimen of 
this collected in 1895 by J. H. 
Hart, and said to be introduced. 
It is distinguished by its elongate 
narrow blades. 
F eerech latifolium. Inf 
HEWHACHNH -ROTTBOELLIOMDNS i eh et peo 
Desv.; Hamilt., Prodr. Pl. Ind. 
Occ. 11. 1825. Described from a specimen purporting to be from 
the ‘“‘Antilles’” in the Desvaux Herbarium. The genus is an African 
one and the locality given is probably an error, as with many other 
Desvaux specimens. The specimen could not be found in the Paris 
Herbarium. 
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