496 GRAMINEE (Stapf). [ Pentaschistis, 
to it; awn 5-6 lin. long, kneed below the middle and _ twisted; 
pales ‘equal to the valves, scaberulous along the keels and towards 
the tips ; lodicules ciliate ; anthers 1} lin. “long; grain 1 lin. long. 
Danthonia sp, Drége, Linnea, xx. 954. 
Var. f, truneatula (Stapf); barren shoots very short; blades very rigid, 
set sceously — subobtuse ; spikelets 43~5 lin. long ; glumes less a 
closely 3-nerv nthonia crispa, B truncatula, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 310. 
Coast ReGion: Caledon Div. ; or near sg cH tes the Z aspen Kinde 
River, ali 4539! Riversdale Div.; on the Kam Berg, — 
7068! Var. 8: Caledon Div. ; Tails an Kloof, near ree 1000-2000 
17. P. elegans (Stapf); perennial, tufted; culms fascicled with 
short innovation shoots; erect from a loosely branched base, covered 
with old leaves, slender, S_] ft. long, glabrous, smooth, very closely 
leafy below, 2 -noded above the base, upper 2—3 internodes exserted ; 
leaves crowded at the base, those of the last year persistent on the 
basal branches ; sheaths tight, lowest closely imbricate, short, striate 
in the upper part, glabrous: or very sparingly bristly, particularly 
at the mouth, upper 2-22 in. long, very slender, finely striate; 
erie emooth, pelsetttens ; Tg a fringe of — hairs ; j eo 
flaceid, sctauitocen secund, 1- 12 . long ; branches 2-nate, seantily 
acaborntoda like the finely shee eae axis and ng capillary branchlets, 
obscurely pubescent at the axils, more or less unequal, loosely 
4—1-spiculate, lowest 1-1 in. long; pedicels 2-5 lin, long ; spikelets 
brownish, 31-41 lin. long ; glum long and finely marge ee 
subhyaline, seaberulous in the inp? tae ‘glabrous ; body © of alves 
short, ciliolate, passing into short t bristles, scarcely more ean 4 3 lin, 
1 t, 7-8 lin. long, kneed at the middle; pales 
equal to the valve: ahttately 2- toothed or entire ; anthers slightly 
over 1 lin. long. Danthonia elegans, Nees, Fl. "Afr. Austr. 296; 
regen Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 240; Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. 
v. 
Coast Reaion: mega: ie Klein Riversberg Mountains, Ecklon & Zeyher 
120 in St. Petersburg Her’ 
18. P. Lima ale perennial ; culms sini slender, over 1 ft. 
long, glabrous, rough below the panicle and juet below the nodes, 
otherwise — few-noded, sheathed almost all along; sheaths 
ct 
= 
below, weber above; ligule a fringe of hairs; blades or 
above the ligule ; panicle narrow, oblong, somewhat lax, erect, about 
5 in. long; branches 2- (rarely 3-) nate, like the filiform axis and 
