486 GRAMINER (Stapf): [ Pentaschistis, 
lin, long; spikelets brownish-yellow, purplish at the back below, 
1-71 lin. long, erect on sometimes nodding branchlets; glumes 
long and setaceously acuminate, subhyaline, scaberulous or puberu- 
lous; body of valves about 3 lin. long, shortly pubescent to villous, 
7-9-nerved ; lobes short or produced, ‘acute and almost 1 lin. long ; 
i ha with a fine bristle 4-5 lin. long from the inner angle ; 
—13 i long; kneed at a little below the middle ; callus 
eats to 8 lin. long; pales equalling the valves, glabrous except 
.- the cliolate tips; anthers 2 lin. long. iene aristidoides, 
Thunb. 22 ; Fl. Cap. 433; ed. Schult. 116. Danthonia 
nical as Fl. Afr. Austr. 318; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. 
i, 242; Dura nd & Sohne, Consp. Fi. Afr. y. 855. D. aristidoides, 
Lehm. ex Nees, l.c. 
Coast Raion: _— berg Div.; moist places on Ps 1500-2000 ft., 
a Cape Div.; eg ge ntain, 500 ft., Ecklon, Bolus & MacOwan, 
erb. Norm. Aust. Afr. 793! Cape Flats near Ronde iad, Bolus, 4892! 
alent Ecklon, sinoes “Bay y, Wright! oo Town, Wolley Dod, 542! 
Swellendam Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Ecklon 
2. P. viscidula (Stapf) ; perennial, tufted; culms erect, slender, 
1-1} ft. long, glabrous, smooth, about 3-noded, sheathed all along or 
upper and intermediate internodes exserted ; lower sheaths rather 
erowded, lowest scarious, softly villous or tomentose, particularly at 
base and along the margins, pubescent upwards, that above it 
herbaceous, lax, cere glabrescent or glabrous except at the villous 
margins, uppermost tight and narrow or tum id, sometimes quite 
glabrous, all vilteialy bearded; ligule a dense fringe of hairs ; 
sea fili i canaliculate or involute, tapering to an acute point, 
3-5 in. long, firm, flexuous, finely pubescent, Sart on the 
u eo surface, or glabr on back, ; panicle erect, 
obovate, contracted, 23-5 in. g; bra 
tiliform axis and the subeapillary beer bearded at the axils, 
laxly trichotomous from 1—1 in. above the base, lowest 2-34 in. long, 
ultimate divisions and pediee ls ta the latter seabernlous towards 
oc apa ea smooth or very finely scaberulous ; bod 
23-2 lin. long, finely pubescent near the base, otherwise 
glabrous, often: again T-nerved; lobes very distinct, narrow, acute, 
ciliolate, almost. or quite from the lateral oe these very fine, 
3-5 lin. long; awn ie lin. long, kneed below the middle ; callus 
rather slender ; pales 2} lin. long, ey, Pte anthers 
11 lin. long. Danthonia viscidula, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 3033 
Steud. Bes Pl. Glum,i. 240; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Aft 
v. 855 
Soutn AFRICA: without blag sail Zeyher! ‘ 
Coast Region: Feige illiam Div.; Cederbe Ezelsban 
3000-4000 ft., Drag bigs mesa RE 
aie. eee perennial, densely tufted ; culms erect, 
stout, 2-2}. ft. long, glabrous, smooth, 4-6-noded, sheathed nearly 
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