480 GRAMINE® (Stapf). [ Pentaschistis, 
side, margins scabrid; panicle narrow, oblong, 4-6 in. long ; axis 
slender. scaberulous or smoot elow ; branches mostly 2-nate, 
unequal, suberect, filiform, usually branched from the base or neat 
it, glabrous; branchlets and pedicels very unequal, subeapillary, 
minutely seaberulous or almost smooth; spikelets straw-coloured to 
whitish, 4-52 lin. long; glumes lanceolate, long and finely acuminate, 
subhyaline, ‘clabrous, smooth, l-nerved; valves linear-oblong in 
profile, body 14—2 lin. long, long hay to villous, 7-9-nerved ; lobes 
lanceolate, acute, 3 3-3 lin. = 1g; thin, smooth or almost so, with a fine 
aie 2-3 lin. long from the inner nae adnate to it except at the 
tips; awn 53-61 lin. long, kneed below the middle, twisted ; callus 
set Ghoaly hairy ; pales equalling the valves, 2-toothed, glabrous, 
mooth ; lodicules glabrous ; anthers 11-11 lin. long. Danthonia 
eristome Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 504; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 241; 
soa dlaeaie sat Fi. pieces Austr. v. 849. 
Div 
yp and Cape St. Blaize, » Burchell, 6268 ! Little Brak River, 6185! Albany 
Div.; Bothas Berg, Ecklo 
a. F. peers (Stapf); perennial, densely tufted; culms vue 
firm, 2~3 ft. , glabrous, smooth, sheathed all along or 1 of the 
intermediate Snow exserted ; sheaths tight, firm, Rails some. 
times very minutely hairy between the strie, at length glabrescent 
or quite glabrous, Raabe close, long, coriaceous, persistent ; ligule 
a fringe of hairs; blades very narrow from the base, filiform, 
canaliculate or sonvelate: terete, 1 to more than 2 ft. long, very rigid, 
erect, straight or subflexuous, adpressedly hairy, at length glabrescent 
or glabrous below, villous to ‘subvillous on the upper surface, smooth ; 
panicle linear to linear- oblong, contracted, dense, 4-10 in. long, erect, 
stiff; axis slender, stiff, scaberulous or smooth below ; branches 
fo 
seabrid, lateral BY Sara short ; — oh sa cooure 3}-5 we 
inner angle, 23-3 lin. long, free or more or less adnate to it; awh] 
5-8 lin. long, kneed at 4 way up, twisted below ; callus ihark, minutely 
hairy ; pales equalling the body of the valve, entire or subentire, 
scantily pubescent, ciliolate above; anthers 1-14 lin. ong + eee 
12 a long. Das thonia curvifolia, B livida, “Nees in Linnea, 
Xx, 254. 
oast Recion: Swellendam Div. ; Buffeljaghts River, 1000-2000 ft., Zeyher, 
ses ! Riversdale Div. ; hills near Zoetemelks River, Burchell, 6750! 6761 ! 
