BOTANY OF THE MAYA AREA


8. Paspalum paniculatum L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 2: 855. 1759.
 Perennial; culms usually coarse in tough clumps, mostly about 1 m. tall;
 blades 1 to 2 cm. wide, rounded at the base, glabrous, scabrous or sparsely
 hispid; panicles pyramidal; racemes several to many, crowded, arcuate-
 ascending or spreading; spikelets crowded, in pairs, 1.5 mm. long, pubescent.
 Open ground, often a weed in cultivated places, Mexico and the West Indies
 to Argentina; also in West Africa, Society Islands and Australia.
 BRITISH HONDURAS. Belize District: Manatee River, Smart 65. Manatee
 Lagoon, Peck 970. Stann Creek District: Middlesex, Smart 26. Toledo
 District: Toledo, Peck 542.

 9. Paspalum caspitosum Fliigge, Monogr. Pasp. 161. 1810.
 Perennial; culms in dense erect or spreading clumps, mostly 30 to 60 cm.
 tall, the leaves usually crowded toward the base; blades flat or loosely rolled,
 ciliate toward the base; racemes 3 to 6, remote, stiffly ascending or spreading,
 more or less arcuate; spikelets in pairs, 1.5 to 1.8 mm. long, sparsely ap-
 pressed pubescent. Shady places in limestone soil and in sandy pinelands,
 southern Florida, Yucatan, Central America and the West Indies.
 BRITISH HONDURAS. Orange Walk District: Honey Camp, Lundell 568.
 Belize District: Gracie Rock, Gentle 1597. Toledo District: Toledo, Peck
 769.
 GUATEMALA. Pet6n: La Libertad, Lundell 3858.

 10. Paspalum multicaule Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 4: 309. 1816.
 Annual; culms densely tufted, freely branching, ascending or spreading,
 10 to 45 cm. long; blades flat, 2 to 15 cm. long, 1.5 to 3 mm. wide, papillose-
 pilose, the midnerve and margins prominent; racemes 2, conjugate, divergent,
 mostly 2 to 4 cm. long; spikelets solitary, hemispheric, 1.3 mm. long, more
 or less beaded with subglobular hairs. Moist savannas and open ground,
 Mexico and Trinidad to Brazil and Bolivia.
 BRITISH HONDURAS. El Cayo District: Mountain Pine Ridge, Bartlett
 11779,11859.

 11. Paspalum orbiculatum Poir. in Lam. Encycl. 5: 32. 1804.
 Stoloniferous perennial; culms slender, creeping, rooting at the nodes,
 the ascending branches 10 to 25 cm. long; blades flat, 1 to 6 cm. long, 1.5
 to 7 mm. wide, glabrous or minutely pubescent; racemes 2 to 7, approximate,
 ascending to spreading, mostly 1 to 2 cm. (rarely as much as 3 cm.) long,
 the rachis winged, 0.5 mm. wide; spikelets ovoid, minutely pointed, 1 to
 1.2 mm. long, glabrous or rarely pubescent, the margins somewhat raised.
 Moist sandy banks, open ground and along streams and ditches, southern
 Mexico and the West Indies to Paraguay.
 BRrriSH HONDURAS. Belize District: Freetown, Smart 74, 75. Gracio
 Rock, Gentle 1591. El Cayo District: El Cayo, Bartlett 11491. Toledo
 District: Toledo, Peck 541.
 GUATEMALA. Pet6n: La Libertad, Lundell 2527, 2585.

12. Paspalum conjugatum Blrgius, Act. Holy. Phys. Math. 7: 129, pi. 8. 1762.
 Stoloniferous perennial; culms rather slender, flattened, glabrous, the
flowering branches usually 20 to 50 cm. long; blades thin, flat, mostly 8
to 12 cm. long, 5 to 15 mm. wide, the margins scabrous or short ciliate;