Pentaschistis.] GRAMINER iene 491 
with intrava aginal innovation S vote, tiratiedied? febedss like 
branches erect, slender, wiry below, 1-1: ft. long, glabrous, issn 
few-noded, uppermost node usually near the middle, exserted ; 
sheaths very tight, firm, glabrous, rarely the lower hairy, usually 
beardless, smooth, often purple, striate, lower wnat ~3 in, long, 
e ow; panicle oblong, rather lax, joer 2-3 in. al stiff or 
glabrous, subtrichotomous, or alternately and sparingly divided from 
~6 lin. above the base, often reduced to 3-1 spikelets, the longest 
1-2 in, long ; pedicels very unequal, down to 1 lin. long; spikelets 
coloured back, 1-nerve , or lower closely 3-nerved at the peers 
natrow, rigid, acute, scabrid, up to. Lb Jim long, fous | or more we 
less adnate to a ‘suf bristle from the inner angle, 24 lin. long 
6-8 lin. long ; kneed at a little below the middle, twisted ne sai 
below ; callus acute, minutely bearded; pales equalling the body of 
the valves, seantily puberulous ; ludieuies glabrous or subciliate ; 
anthers 12 lin, long. Avena colorata, Steud. in Flora, 1829, 481. 
Danthonia tortuosa, Trin. Gram. Suppl. 34, and in Mém. ‘Acad. 
Pétersh, sér, 6, iv. 35 (excl. Syn. Pentameris Thouarsii), not i. 72. 
m tortuosa, var. tenuior, Nees Drege in Linnea, xx. 254 
vin 8, polytricha (Stapf): culms ft. high, very slender, ea sheathed 
-allalong ; lowest an ek pen ie or pesmi i the others purplish, with 
ong white fine spreading hairs at least in the upper and a 
bearded at the mouth ; blades glabrous or with hairs as i the upper sheaths 
Se, in. long ; pee meagre, stiff; spikelets 6-6} lin 
Coast REGion : Cape Div.; Table gh Ecklon, 931! oe abe art in 
Kew Herb, ! MacOwan, Hest, Austr, ca 697 ! dar slope of f Sl lang Kop, 
Wolley Dod, 3001! near Camps Bay, Wily 5, 3864! without precise locality, 
exonder ! Paarl Div. Gre raken M 
, ft., Drége! Swellendam Div.; Puspus Valley, Bitte 4544 ! 
pe Div.; near Genadendal, 1500-2500 ft., Drége, 1681! Var. 6: Cape 
'V., Dear Paulsberg and Batseta rocks, Wolley Dod, 2952! 
en Specimens from Cape Biber have, on the whole, longer spikelets than 
© remainder (5-6 against 44-5 lin.). 
10. P.¢ ocho Stapf erennial, compactl itose ; culms 
oe y cespl 
erect, firm, 1-2 ft. oo Aes th, glabro s, 3~4-noded, internodes 
exerted leaves crowded at the “pase, pire glabrous, smooth ; 
tight, very firm, lower short, imbricate, persistent, slightly 
Nita i in the upper part ; ligule a fringe of very short hairs ; blades 
