462 GRAMINER (Stapf). [ Achneria. 
with a delicate bristle or awn from the middle; pales glabrous, 
slightly shorter than the valves ; anthers 1-14 lin. long; grain lin 
long. Holcus nines Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 110. Dan- 
thunia porosa, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 283; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 239 ; 
Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. 853. D. echananbety Steud. Syn. 
Pt. Glum. i. 239. Eriachne tuberculata, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr, 274. 
Achneria tuberculata, Durand § Schinz, lie. 836. 
South Arrica: without _— eee Prieta 
Reeion: Uitenhage Div. (?), in ssy places on the rocky ridges 
between eg ones River soa gt eh aa aces, Ecklon. Stockenstrom Div. ; 
at Berg 5000 ft., Drége’ Catheart Div.; between Windvogel Berg 
and veal i River, coh ft., Drége! King Williamstown Div. ; Amato ln 
Mountains, Buchana 
ENTRAL REGION : air sep gam Zeyher! Aliwal North Div. ; Witte Bergen, 
on rocks, 7 t., D 
e variability of the shies is very puzzling. They are usually entire or 
minutely 3-toothed and awnless; but there is, in the upper valve, frequently a 
tendency towards the formation of a n awn, them gen nerve running into a slender 
d short mucro or a deli i rier ong. In extreme cases, t 
bristle is replaced by a slender kneed awn ost as long as the valve, ye the 
minnte side lobes have each a short very Pa "bristle at the inner at 
si 
state is, however, always, as it seems, confined to a small number of spikelets, and 
oes not affect the whole panicle. 
9. A. hirsuta (Stapf); perennial, densely czspitose ; culms erect, 
somewhat stout, up to more than 2 ft. long, simple, glabrous, smooth, 
2—3-noded, uppermost internode exserted ; leaves crowded at the 
mouth ; ligule a dense ee of hairs ; blades ane tapering ‘of a 
erage s 
more or less capillary branchlets and pedicels, slightly viscid, glabrous, 
or sparingly hairy at the callous axils, loosely trichotomous, the 
: ii 
longest up to 5 in. long; icels 2— long; spikelet oblong, 
3-3 lin. long, pallid or purplish below, somewhat amt ee glum 
lanceolate in pile, acuminate, sobouie Bote eae -nerved, 
14 lin. long ; grain ik lin. long. Danthonia hirsuta, pi 1. Afr. 
Austr. 282; Durand ‘§ Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. 50. 
dong So glabrata Site 52, smaller; leaves shorter, gabrom, excepting © _ 
cilia rgins and bearded mouth of the | sheaths; panicles 4 by 4- ily 
bec penmag Dh Hin. long. 
Coast RxGion: Aliwal North Div.; Witte Bergen Range, 6000 ft., Drége! 
bod B: Albany Div. ; mountain slopes near Grahamstown, 2000 ft., Macowan, 
