498 GRAMINEZ (Stapf). [ Pentaschistis. 
hirsute with tubercule-based spreading hairs, villous at the very 
base, upper glabrous, scantily tubercled or almost smooth, margins 
ciliate, mouth cons picuously bearded ; “gee a fringe of hairs; 
blades ce acute, 3-4 in. by almost 2 lin., gid, flat or involute, 
distinctly striate, lower densely beset with pacing based _ hairs, 
upper like those of the shoots more or less glabrous, seaberulous on 
both sides or smooth on the back tp margins minutely tubercled ; 
panicle very lax, open, 4 in. by 4 in.; branches 2-nate, scabrid 
peels : ee linear-oblong, body almost ce lin. lon 
5-nerved, long and loosely hairy, hairs seriate ; lobes minute, ac ent 
with a fine bristle, 12 lin. long from the inner side; callus acute, 
‘eiutacls villous ; awn ‘kneed: below the middle and twisted, 3—4 lin. 
long ; pales as long as the valves, 2-toothed; grain slightly over 
2 am long. Danthonia scabra, var. hirsuta, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 
Coast Rector: Clanwilliam Div.; near Zwartbast — between Berg 
Valley and Lange Valley, below 1000 ft., in sandy places, Drég 
21. P. rupestris (Stapf) ; perennial ; culms erect, rather stout, 
almost 8 ft. long, glabrous, more or less verrucose from small tubercles 
below the panicle, otherwise smooth, many-noded, scantily branched 
below ; lower phe cor very short, intermediate 2-3 in. long, shortly 
exserted, uppermost much longer, long exserted; sheaths rather 
tight, bce basal short, at ‘least the inner tomentose at the 
very base, otherwise glabrous, the cauline glabrous at the base, 
shortly hirsute with tubercle-based hairs abew and bearded neat 
the mouth, upper quite glabrous with 1-3 rows of tubercular glands: 
ligule a fringe of hairs; blades linear, long tapering to an acute 
point, 3—} sft. by 2 lin , flat or loosely involute, firm, rather rigid, 
branches 2-nate, like th orm axis and the very fine bran chlet 
densely dotted with small —_ mid least below, scabrid above, 
rded at _ lower axils, very 1 and divaricately tricho- 
us f 3-2 in. above the i. lowest up to 4 in. long, 
divas abee “equal, very slender and (exeept the ultimate) 
rm ; pedicels very snag rarely 1 lin. lon ng ; p pers in clusters 
3-5 at the ti wnish, 3 lin. 
ensely 
villous below, loosely and long hairy at the middle, sett. y Fenervel 
lobes short, scaberulous, denticulate, with a bristle 13 lin. lons 
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