488 GRAMINE® (Stapf). [ Pentaschistis. 
dense, 23-5 in. long, silvery ; branches 2-nate, smooth like the filiform 
axis and the subcapillary branchlets and ’ pediee els conspicuously 
bearded at the amis, repeatedly trichotomous from 3-7 Jin. above 
the base, lowest 1-22 in. long, ultimate divisions and pedicels short; 
spikelets silvery, very shining, sometimes tinged with purple below, 
crowded, 5-6 lin. long; glumes long and delicately acuminate, 
hyaline, smooth or finely ro He keels usually shortly ciliate 
below, scaberulous above ; body of valves 21 lin. long, adpressedly or 
loosely hairy to or beyond the middle, distinctly 7-nerved ; lobes 
narrow, acute, very distinct, ciliolate, almost free hae the yi 
slender side-bristles, these 4-5 lin. long and much exserted ; 
7-9 lin. long, kneed below the middle, slightly twisted ; callus sce 
slender ; ales ig lin. long, subentire or finely ”9-mucronate ; 3 
anthers 11 lin. lon 
SoutH ces without pacieien locality, MacGillivray, 406 ! 
Coast Reaion: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Spielhaus / slopes of Orange 
Kloof, Wolley Dod, 9342 | pastures above Simons Ba ay, frequent, Milne, 247! 
This is very probably Danthonia involuta (Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 240; 
Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 851). 
5. P. nutans (Stapf) ; ‘estan tufted ; culms erect, stout, 3 ft. 
long, ene smooth, abou noded, sheathed nearly all along; 
sheaths lax lax, firm, strongly hike, ace 4-5 in. long, rather broad, 
point, up to more than 2 ft. ae less than 1 lin. when expanded, 
rigid, flexuous, glabrous, smooth; panicle oblong, contracted of 
rather lax, nodding, up to 8 in. long ; ; rhachis rather stout below, 
filiform above ; branches 2-nate, like the branchlets and pedicels 
flexuous, filiform, smooth and glabrous, unequal, oly, and unequally 
divided from 3-1 in. above the base, longest up to 4 in. long; 
icels unequal, not under 2 lin. long; spiketets brownish straw- 
ite Tenant e adnate to it; awn 7-9 lin. lo ong, kneed 4 way Up, 
twisted, dark below ; éa thas short, obtuse, minutely villous ; pales 
equalling the body of the Meh 2-mucronulate ; lodieules ciliate ; 
anthers 13 lin. long. Danthonia nutans, on Fl. Afr. Austr. 314 ; 
pigiewal Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 241; Durand 5 Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. 
Coast ReGion: Caledon Div. ; 5 ese Genadendal, by the Zonder Einde River, 
in the sandy river-bed, 500 ft., Dré 
6. P. tortuosa (Stapf) ; perennial, tufted ; culms faseicled, with 
intravaginal shoots, erect, rather stout, 2-3 ft. ‘long, glabrous, smooth, 
