Paspalum nutans Lam.

Paspalum lloydii Nash, sp. nov
Stems sometimes 1 m. long, usually shorter, finally branched and prostrate and rooted at the lower nodes, with a leafless pubescent flower-bearing branch from the upper axil; leafsheaths ciliate, otherwise glabrous; blades up to 1 dm. long, 5^15 mm. wide, lanceolate to elliptic, glabrous or pubescent, often ciliate; racemes single, or sometimes in 2's-4's, straight or curved, 3-5 cm. long, the rachis about 0.5 mm. wide, glabrous; spikelets in pairs, glabrous, 1.8-2 mm. long, 1-1.2 mm. wide, elliptic, obtuse, the first scale wanting, the second scale shorter than the spikelet, 3-nerved, the third scale as long as the spikelet, 5-nerved, the fruiting scale yellowish-green, oval to obovate, strongly roughened with longitudinal rows of papillae.
Type collected at Montfelier, Dominica, 1903, Francis E. Lloyd 590 (herb, N. Y. Bot. Gard.). Distribution : Dominica, Guadeloupe, St. Vincent, and Grenada; also in Colombia.