Pentaschistis. | GRAMINE® (Stapf). 487 
all along; leaves hairy all over; sheaths lax, strongly striate, lowest 
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dense transverse fringe of hairs; blades linear, long tapering to a 
filiform point, up to more than 11 ft. long, 1-3 lin. broad, loosely 
involute or partly flat, flexuous, coarsely striate, somewhat hairy or 
glabrous below, smooth or scabrid towards the tips, upper side often 
glaucous; panicle oblong or ovate, open and lax or contracted, 
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Danthonia pallescens, Schrad. in Schult. Mant. ii. 386; Trin. Gram. 
Ie. t. 64; Gram. Gen. 72, and in Mém. Acad. Pétersb. sér. 6, i. 72, 
and iv. 35; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 316 (excl. syn. Thunb.) ; Steud. 
Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 242. Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 853 
(excl, syn. Thunb.). Pentameris pallescens, Nees in Linnea, vii. 
312; Kunth, Enum. i. 316. 
const Reeion: Clanwilliam Div.; Olifants River, Ecklon § Zeyher, 180! 
pe Div.; Table ountain, Ecklon, Bergius! Spielhaus! MacGillivray! 
1955! 8491! rocks on Constantia Berg, Wolley Dod, 1962! Worcester Div.; in 
marshy ground in Dutoits Kloof, 3500-4000 ft., Drége ! 
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slender, 1-2 ft, high, glabrous or sometimes silky close to the nodes, 
of ‘hairs ; blades linear, very long tapering to a setaceous point, 
6-9 in. by 1-2 lin, fla ef pening “ 
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race, margins scabrid ; panicle oblong, erect, or nodding, usually 
