Pentaschistis. | GRAMINE® (Stapf). 493 
to 12 in, long, trichotomous from 4-6 lin. above the base, 
divisions unequal, pedicels not under 2 lin. long; spikelets pallid, 
straw-coloured, shining, 4—43 lin. long ; glumes lanceolate in profile, 
long an nely acuminate, hyaline, whitish, glabrous, smooth, 
1-keeled; valves lanceolate-oblong, in profile, body 11—14 lin. long, 
shortly and rigidly pubescent to beyond the middle, seaberulous 
above, 7-nerved ; lobes lanceolate, very acute, 1-12 lin. long, partly 
adnate to or almost free from a fine bristle (14 lin. long) from the 
inner angle; awn about 5 lin. long, distinctly exserted from the 
glumes, kneed at + way up, distinetly twisted below ; pales exceeding 
the body of the valve, 21 lin. long, 2-mucronulate, seaberulous 
above ; lodicules glabrous; anthers almost 12 lin. long. 
Coast ReGion: Albany Div.; on steep mountain slopes near Grahamstown, 
2000 ft., MacOwan, 1299! 
short hairs ; blades setaceous, plicate and subterete, up to 8 in. by 
? lin. when unfolded, not striate, 
panicle ovate, lax, scanty, more or less open, 2 in. long; branches 
up to 12 in. long, sparingly divided from 3-4 lin. above the base, 
b 
profile, y 14 lin. long, somewhat pubescent with long hairs in 
hearly all parts, 7-nerved, hairs fine, twisted, glittering ; lobes lanceo- 
late, acute, up to 1 lin. long, wholly adnate or almost so to the short 
lateral bristle ; awn scarcely exserted from the glumes, up to 3 lin. 
long, kneed below the middle, scantily twisted below; pales 
exceeding the body of the valve, 2-mucronulate, scantily pubescent 
or at least the keels ciliate ; lodicules glabrous ; anthers 14 lin. long; 
grain 13 lin, long 
Eastern REGron : Griqualand East; rocks on the summit of Mount Currie, 
7500 ft., Tyson, 1812 ! 
13. P. natalensis (Stapf); perennial; culms densely tufted or 
‘rect from short stolons, rather slender, 2 ft. high, glabrous, smooth, 
4-5.noded, sheathed all along ; sheaths tight, striate, softly hairy 
or the upper glabrous ; mouth shortly bearded; ligule a fringe. af 
hairs; blades very long, filiform-eonvolute, lower up to more than 
ft. long by 11 lin. wide at the base, glabrous or seantily hairy 
towards the base, smooth, margins scaberulous; panicle open, very 
aX, up to 6 in. by 6 in., somewhat flaccid; branches 2-nate, smooth 
like the filiform axis and the subeapillary or capillary branchlets and 
