492 GRAMINES® (Stapf). [ Pentaschistis, 
narrow, linear, tapering to an acute or subacute point, up to more 
than me ft. by 1 lin. when expanded, rarely broader, nearly always 
setaceously involute, very firm, strongly flexuous or curled ; panicle 
spike-like, oblong or ovate, usually very dense, 1-3 in. by 3-1 in.; 
all divisions very short, scabrid ; ; spikelets straw- coloured or brownish, 
1-7 lin. long, imbrieate; glumes lanceolate in profile, long, 
setaceously ere — l-nerved, scaberulous; valves “oblong 
in profile, body 13 to almost 2 lin ong loosely hairy all over to 
villous; lobes 4 lin. ioe acute, more or less adnate to a bristle 
(8-4 lin. long) ‘from the inner angle; awn 6-8 lin. long, kneed and 
twisted below the middle ; ; pales equalling the valves, keels scabrid, 
back hairy; lodicules glabrous; anthers 1+ lin. long. anthonia 
curvifolia, sgh in Schult. Mant. ii 386 ; Trin. Gram. Gen 0, 
and in, Mém. Acad. Pétersb. sér. 6, i. 70; Gram. Suppl. 33, and m 
Mém. Acad. Sard sér. 6, iv. 34 4 (in part) 5 oe 3, Fl. Afr. Austr. 
321 (excl. “iy Thunb.) ; Steud. Syn. . i. 242; Durand § 
Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 848. D. vida o Gram. Ic. t. 50, 
on in Mim. Acad. Péstersh, sér. 6, i denudata, Nees, 
Fl, Afr. Austr. 320; Steud. ne Durand . Schinz, c. 849. Avena 
glomerata, Steud. in Flora, 1829, 483. Pentameris curvifolia, Nees 
in Linnea, vii. 313 ; Kunth, Enum. i. 317; Suppl. 272. 
Sourm Arnica: without locality, MacGillivray, 405! 406! Harvey, 274! 
280! 
Coa ‘oast Recion: Cape Div. ; Cape Flats, Zeyher, 1824! stony slopes of Table 
Mountain, 1500 ft., MacOwan, Herb. Austr. Afr. 1695! 1696! Bertin ee 
frequent at the summit of Table Mountain, Milne, 249! between the Lion 
ead and Signal Hill, Wolley Dod, 3 3149! Wyn berg, Wilms, 3868 ! wo er ‘beyond 
Alphen Bridge, Wolley Dod, 3490! Seer Nek, Wolley Dod, 3487! 8 Silvermine 
swamp, common, Wolley Dod, 3389! Simons Bay, Wright ! Green Point, Pig ee 
Paarl Div.; near French-Hoek or Geonk eakanian. Dréye / Agter e.P ee 
on. Riv x 
Vet River an hoabttk Mali Burchell, 7171! Uitenhage Div.; mountains 
near the Van Staadens Rive r, Ecklon ; near Zwartkops River, Zeyher | Albany 
Div.; near a aig MacOwan » 155! 1286! 
oblong, narrow, contracted, lax, about 4 in. long, erect; branches 
mostly 2-nate, unequal like the filiform axis, the subcapillary 
branchlets and the capillary pedicels glabrous, smooth, pallid, lo west: 
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