494 GRAMINEX (Stapf). [ Pentaschistis. 
pedicels, glabrous, except the sparingly hairy cr lng very 
axly and spre angiad di- and tri-chotomous from n, above 
the base, lowest over 3 in. long, ultimate rea vil pales 
rather short; jaiseal cpedioale about 11 lin. long; spikelets very 
pallid, 3-32 lin, ong ; glumes lanceolate in profile, finely acuminate, 
hyaline, glabrous, 1-nerved, keel minutely tubercled ; valves linear- 
oblong, body 12 lin. long, finely and loosely hairy ‘all over, finely 
7-nerved ; lobes short, acute, adnate to or more or less free from the 
fine bristle 2- 22 lin, lo ong at the inner side ; awn about 6 lin. long, 
kneed and twisted just below the middle; callus short, acute, 
minutely villous ; pales equalling the valves, 2. pean tips clicks 
anthers 1 lin long ; grain slightly over 1 lin. lon 
EasteERN REGION: Natal; Riet Vlei, 5000-6000 ft., pareres 283! 
14. P. capensis (Stapf); perennial ; laxly tufted ; culms slender, 
geniculate, ascending from a tuft of leaves and branches springing 
from the slender decumbent and rooting base or an equally s slender 
rhizome, 3-1} ft. long, glabrous, smooth, nodes rather many, 
sheathed nearly all along or upper internodes shortly exserted ; 
leaves glabrous; sheaths rather thin, glabrous, striate, finally more or 
less loose, often purplish ; re a ciliolate rim ; peor very narrow, 
linear, very long Sg Sip o a fine or setaceous point, up to more 
than 6 in. by 1-12 lin., usually involute and filiform, at least in the 
upper part, eg smooth below, densely scaberulous or Lerman 
on the upper face; panicle Jax, flaccid, ovate or oblong, 2-4 in. long 
branches 3-—2-nate, flexuous like the filiform axis and capillary 
branchlets and pedice ls, glabrous and smooth, or scantily hairy a! 
the callous axils, trichotomously divided from near the base, longest 
Bila ng, ultimate divisions 1-spiculate and 5-7 lin, long, oF 
Afr. Austr. 271. Danthonia radicans, shies Syn. Pl. Gilum. 
i, 243; Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fi. Afr. v. 
ast ReGion: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, epi thas 2 Cape Peninsula, 
Orange Kloof, Wolley Dod, 2122! Worcester Div ; Dutoits Kloof, on rocks im 
river-beds, 3000-4000 ft., Drége! Caledon Die. (?); Vogel Gat, 2000 ft.» 
Schlechter, 9520! Riv ersds ile "Divi g Lange ergen, near Kampsche Berg, 
Burchell, 6969 ! 
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