Pentaschistis. | GRAMINEE (Stapf). 495 
15. P. triseta yi ne eget ie scantily fascieled, erect or 
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suberect, slender, glabro s, smooth, few-noded, upper 
2 internodes oceu pyi Ke or more of the culm, exserted ; sheaths 
rather lax, nage feat ciliate along the margins, lower short, 
villous in the upper t; ligule a fringe of short hairs; blades 
linear, acute, 1-11 i 1_] lin. (upper very short), more or less 
spreading, flat, soft (at least the lower), shortly villous, eglandular ; 
panicle flaecid, lax, meagre, sometimes reduced to 2 or 3. spikelets, 
about 2 in. long ; lowest branches 3—2-nate, spreading or nodding, 
2-1-spiculate, finely filiform, 4-9 lin. long; spikelets more or less 
erect at the incurved tips of the pedicels, 7-8 lin. long ; glumes equal, 
very narrow, lanceolate-linear i e, setaceously acuminate, 
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Afr. Austr, 315; gone Syn. Pl. Glum, i. 241; Durand & Se hing, 
Consp. Fl. Afr. Austr. 848. 
SourH AFRIca: without precise sag Thunberg ! 
Coast Region: Paarl Div.; Klein Drakenstein Mountains, Drége! Clan- 
william Diy. ; in sandy places near the! Olifants River and near Brack Fontein, 
Ecklon & Zeyher, i293! 
16. P. acinosa (Stapf) ; perennial, aa stems undivided at 
the base, covered with the persistent lea r their remnants, then 
branching and forming fascicles of filiform fistering culms, 4—8 in. 
long, and slender barren shoots, the former closely and distichously 
leafy at the erie with 2 long internodes above it, smooth, glabrous, 
the latter 1-3 in. long, very closely distichously leafy; sheaths 
tight, hubsieohi: bearded at the mouth, lower very short, firm, 
persistent : ligule a fringe of minute hairs ; — linear, —- 
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or canalieulate, margins scaberulous, iharv ine: smooth ; panicle 
small, lax, contracted, very me often reduced to ey few 
pinsiets, up to 1} in. long : branches 2-nate, capillary, 2- “Lapin: 
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