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“...long; race-
mes about 2 cm. long, the internodes oblique at the deeply cup-
shaped apex, these and the pedicels appressed-hirsute with long
hairs below on the back, the internodes long barbate at the base;
sessile spikelets 5—6 mm. long; first scale involute, appressed-
hirsute with long hairs, long-acuminate, strongly 2-nerved at the
apex, these nerves and the intermediate ones very faint below;
flowering scale hyaline, delicate, cleft to below the middle, the
awn 8—12 mm. long, the tightly spiral deep brown column about
as long as the yellowish subula; pedicellate spikelet about 1.5 mm.
long, with a scabrous awn about 3 mm. long.
Rocky hill, St. Joris Bay, Curasao, Britton & Shafer, March
20—27, 1913, No. 3101....”
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