ee GRAMINES (Stapf), 499 
rupestris, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. ote Ste. Sy yn. ‘Pl. Glum, i. 240 ; 
Durand § Schinz, Consp. FL Afr. 
Coast Reeion: Clanwilliam Divy.; Ceder Berg Range, on the Blaauwe 
Berg, 4000 ft. , "Droge, 1682b ! 
Nees describes the branches of the panicle as very rough, but egg Be — 
the ete of the glumes as Seams r. I find them as described above. Ano 
specimen in — ’s ee m (2580) consisting o ragments, base and nidale 
part of a cu a a panicle, — exactly with P. rupestris in the panicle 
d b 
margins are also tubercled. Drége’s 2580 is named ‘‘Danthonia glandulosa B” in 
the herbarium at Berlin, and the locality given there is * Modder Fonteins Berg.” 
. P. subulifolia reins! ; pein se senepi fascicled ; culms 
ascending, slender, 3-1 ft. glabrous, smooth, very many-noded 
and de ensely ata i to 1 or 5 way up, — 2 or 3 
ligule a fringe of very short hairs ; blades linear-subulate, pungent 
or almost so, 1-3 in. long, agp lin. broad at the base, almost 
coriaceous, very rigid with the tubereled or smooth margins involute, 
Closely and finely striate, those of the upper leaves very short ; 
panicle broad, ovate to subglobose, contracted, dense, erect, 1-2 in. 
long and broad ; branches 2-nate, like the filiform axis and the 
woa Way a above the base, lower 3—1 in. long, ultimate aiviideath and 
pedicels rather short ; spikelets crowded, 3-4 li lin. long, straw- 
coloured, tinged with brown, and purple seme ; glu 1 or 
almost so, lanceolate in profile, finely acuminate, subhyaline, 1-nerved, 
glabrous ; keel scabrid or tubercled; valves tincedalie oblong in 
profile, body 13 to almost 2 lin. long, ‘finely and shortly hairy with 
the heirs adpresse d and seriate, finely 7 [Relea ; lobes minute, 
obtuse, denticulate- -ciliate, with a fine bristle 24 lin. long from the 
inner side; awn kneed — the middle and twisted, 53-62 lin. 
long; callus distinct, acute, minutely villous; pales as long as the 
valves, entire or minutely 2- fegslicn: Hinceinm 1 lin. lon ng. 
Coast Recron: Cape Div.; near Capetown, Harvey, 300! northern slopes 
of Table Mountain, MacOwan, Herb. Austr. Afr. 1698! Simons Bay, Wright / 
of Pauls tet Wolley Dod, 2954! South slope of Slang Kop, 
Ecklon’s a am the top of Table Mountain er beget: also sSrseagh to 
this species, although the leaves of the _specimen in the Kew Herbarium are 
Setaceous ; this may, however, be due to ‘egommeiry condit: ition whole panic 
bearing on only 6 spikelets. Steudel pedi ee it as Avena peters ery in Flora, 1829, 
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