BOTANY OF THE MAYA AREA


 BRTISH HONDuRAS. Corozal District: Santa Rita, Lundell 4846. Corozal,
 Lundell 4732. Belize District: Belize, Lundell 1943. Gracie Rock, Gentle
 1632, 1644, 1645. Manatee Lagoon, Peck 43.
 GUATEMALA. Peten: El Paso, Lundell 1602; Lake Peten, Lundell 3856;
 La Libertad, Aguilar 65.

 13. DACTYLOCTENIUM Willd.
 1. Dactyloctenium aigyptium (L.) Richt. PI. Eur. 1: 68. 1890.
 Annual; culms branching, radiate spreading, rooting at the nodes, the
ascending ends mostly 20 to 40 cm. long; spikes 2 to 5, 1 to 3 cm. long, thick,
digitate, the rachis produced beyond the spikelets in a stiff point; spikelets
pectinate, crowded, the first glume with an awn about 1 mm. long; lemmas
acuminate or awn pointed. Fields and waste places in tropical regions.
 BRITISH HONDURAS. Corozal District: San Andres, Lundell 4907; without
locality, Gentle 277, 278.
 GUATEMALA. Peten: La Libertad, Aguilar 191, 205.

 14. CYNODON Rich.
1. Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers. Syn. P1. 1: 85. 1805.
 Perennial, stoloniferous, widely creeping; culms wiry, compressed, 10 to
40 cm. tall; spikes 4 to 5, digitate, slender, arcuate, 3 to 5 cm. long; spike-
lets 1 flowered, 2 mm. long. A common weed in open ground throughout
warmer regions.
 BRITISH HONDURAS. Corozal District: San Antonio, Lundell 4899. Belize
District: Gracie Rock, Gentle 1622, 1625.
 GUATEMALA. Peten: La Libertad, Aguilar 66.

 15. SPARTINA Schreb.
1. Spartina spartinm (Trin.) Merr. U. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. PI. Ind. Bull. 9: 11. 1902.
 Perennial; culms usually in large, dense, hard clumps, as much as 1.5 m.
tall, more or less glaucous; blades firm, involute, elongate, sharp pointed,
glabrous; panicles spikelike, erect or somewhat curved. 25 to 40 cm. long;
spikelets awnless. Rocky seashores and marshy places near the coast,
southern United States, Mexico, British Honduras and Costa Rica. Com-
mon in cleared mangrove swamps at Belize.
 BRITISH HONDURAS. Belize: Belize, Lundell 4718. Manatee Lagoon,
Peck 130.
 16. GYMNOPOGON Beauv.
1. Gymnopogon spicatus (Spreng.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 3': 354. 1898.
 Perennial; culms slender, erect or somewhat decumbent at the base,
branching, mostly 40 to 70 cm. tall; blades flat, firm, stiffly spreading,
4 to 6 cm. long, 4 to 8 mm. wide; panicles 15 to 25 cm. long, with few
to several slender ascending or finally spreading spikes, commonly 15 to
20 cm. long, spikelet bearing to the base, the spikelets on the lower half
few, distant, rudimentary; spikelets 2-flowered, appressed to the rachis
4 to 5 mm. long; glumes acuminate pointed, scarcely awned; lemmas 3
mm. long, slender, with awns 8 to 12 mm. long. Pine flats and savannas,
British Honduras and Guatemala; Venezuela and Brazil to Argentina.
 BRITISH HONDURAS. Stann Creek District: All Pines, Schipp 787.