Pentaschistis,] GRAMINE& (Stapf). 497 
the subeapillary branchlets and pedicels scabrid and dotted with 
glandular tubercles, not hairy except at the pubescent axils, distantly 
trichotomous from 5-10 lin. above the base, longest about 2 in, lo 
divisions unequal; pediecls down to 1 lin. long; spikelets light 
straw-coloured, shining, 31-4} lin. long; glumes lanceolate in 
profile, mucronate-acuminate, hyaline, scaberulous, 1-nerved ; keel 
scabrid; valves linear-oblong in profile, body 1% lin. long, scantily 
hairy near the base or almost glabrous, 9-nerved; nerves scaberulous 
in the upper part; lobes short, ovate, passing into fine bristles, 
1-1} lin. long; awn 4-5 lin. long, kneed at and twisted below the 
middle, slender; callus small, obtuse, shortly hairy; lodieules 
glabrous; anthers 13-13 lin. long. Danthonia Lima, Nees, Fl. Afr. 
é Reaion: Little Namaqualand; on the Kamies Bergen between 
Lily Foutein and Pedros Kloof, 3500-4000 ft., Drége / 
19. P. Zeyheri (Stapf); perennial; culms rather stout, about 
2 ft. high, glabrous, more or less beset with small tubercular glands 
below the panicle, otherwise smooth, many-noded ; lower internodes 
very short, upper 2 up to more than + ft, long; sheaths tight, lowest 
close, firm, glabrous below, shortly and spreadingly hairy to villous 
upwards, or almost glabrous throughout, persistent, intermediate and 
upper glabrous, the latter at least with few to many rows of 
linear, long tapering to a fine point, 1—% ft. by 2 lin. e 
involute, very firm, rather rigid, glabrous, smooth below, scantily 
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tubercular glands below; panicle erect, oblong, contracted, abou 
3 in. long, rather dense ; branches 2-nate, like the filiform axis 
t unequal, rapidly decreasing upwards; pedicels }—2 lin. long, 
pales subentire, as long as the valves. Danthonia scabra, eS 
Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 287 (exel. syn.). D. viscidula, Drege m 
Linnea, xx. 254, not Nees. 
Coast ReGion; Uitenhage Div.; near the Zwartkops River, Zeyher ! 
20. P. hirsuta (Stapf); perennial; culms ereet, slender, over 
1; ft. long, glabrous, smooth ; about 3-4-noded, upper 2 internodes 
tee long, exserted; sheaths tight, lower short, oe 
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