Chloris ekmanii Hitchc.

Chloris ekmanii Hitchc. Misc. Publ. U. S. Dep. Agr 243: 129. 1936.
Perennial; culms slender, densely tufted, erect or geniculate at the base, 10-50 cm. tall (usually 20-30 cm.); sheaths compressed-keeled, glabrous, or more or less pilose at the throat; blades slender, involute or sometimes flat, less than 10 cm. long, the culm-blades very much reduced, 1-2 (rarely 3) mm. wide, glabrous or nearly so; spikes 2-5, 1.5-3 cm. long, spreading or reflexed; spikelets rather distant, appressed; glumes very narrow, acuminate, 1-nervcd, the first about 1.5 mm. long, the second about 3 mm. long; fertile floret 3 mm. long, the lemma narrow, glabrous on the back, the margins sparsely pilose near the summit, the awn 7-8 mm. long, scaberulous; rudiment 1 ram. long, almost enclosed by the fertile lemma, the awn 5-6 mm. long, scaberulous.
Typb localitv: Babujal, Jagiiey Grande, Matanzas, Cuba {Ekman 16954). Distribution; Grassy or rocky slopes and in pine woods, Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispaniola.