or 
Fe 
Riots 
 Pentaschistis.] GRAMINE® (Stapf). 489 
about 4-noded, sheathed nearly all along ; — lax, See strongly 
i vded, 4-5 in. long, 
and inely convolute- Gtaxta; up to m more than t. walt Tid, 
longitudinal white ee panicle oblong roa erect, 6-8 in. long, 
contracted; branches 2-nate, filiform, "Hike e thaahils and the 
finely filiform branchlets and pedicels seabrid or mer vetrine glabrous, 
divided from 6-8 lin. above ie base or almost from the — 
unequal ; pedicels not é tinder 1 ee tones? spikelets brownish straw- 
coloured, greenish towards the base or tinged with violet, rar lin. 
long; glumes lanceolate in profile, long and finely acuminate, scarious 
_ &xcept on the narrow subherbaceous central part, rather thin, seaberu- 
lous in the upper part, l-, or ne very closely 3-, nerved ; keels 
seaberulous; valves oblon , bod lin. long loose y pubeseent 
all along , white, faintly 7- to sub- ra nerved ; lobes narrow, oblong, 
sibatiinn, tegnbie up to % lin. long, sduate i part to a fine 
bristle, 22 Ji . long from the inner angle; awn about 7 lin. long, 
kneed at 2 ae up, twisted and dark below; callus short, obtuse, 
minutely villous ; ; pales equal to the body of the valve, 2-mueronulate ; 
lodicules glabrous ; anthers 1 lin. long. Danthonia tortuosa, Trin. 
Gram. Tet t 68+ Gram: Gen. 72, and in Mém. Acad. Pétersb. sér. 
81. 72 (not Gram. Suppl. 34, nor in Mém, Acad. Pétersb.sér. 6, 
lv. 35); Nees, F, tL. Afr. ‘Austr. ae bisn Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 241; 
~ Dura nd § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v 
SoUTH AFRICA: without preeiye vai Sieber, 119! 
aa Cape Div be a Kloof beyond Millers Point, rare, 
846! 2 tg of Rhod es 8. “fence,” Digan Dod, 3117! 3120! 
= _‘Talbag Das 5 ancl Berg, 800-5 
Very closely allied to P. nutans, but differing in nt ner blades which are 
very scabrid in the upper part, the longer hairs of the ligule, stiffer panicles, 
eaictine Kaw ie es ee glumes. Trinius describes the s * ikelets i as 3 a 
eriostoma (Stapf); perennial, densely tufted ; culms 
, often from a woo y base, erect, firm, 2 ft. long, glabrous, 
» Very densely leafy and often closely covered below with the 
remains of the sheaths, 2~-3-noded above, sheathed all along or nearly 
0; Sheaths tight, firm, lower crowded, sometimes subfla te, 
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