500 GRAMINER (Stapf). [ Pentaschistis. 
ii. 484, whilst Nees quotes ‘ Ecklon No. 936 ”? under Danthonia scabra (FI. - 
Austr. 287), notwithstanding that it has not “folia scaberrima, as Nees set 5 
Whether Ecklon’s specimens from Worcester, Clanwilliam and Uitenhage, 
enumerated by Nees under Danthonia scabra, belong to P. subulifolia rd 
to P. hirsuta (Danthonia scabra B hirsuta, Nees) or toa third species I canno 
say. 
_P. leneopogon (Stapf); perennial, loosely tufted; culms 
fascicled, geniculate, ascending from the centre of the tuft, slender, 
1-11 ft. long, smooth, glabrous, 5- or more-noded; internodes 
enclosed (except the uppermost) or shortly exserted, upper 
occupying * or more of the culm ; sheaths loose, with ciliate or villous 
rather smooth, dark purplish, lower short, persistent or subpersistent, 
upper much longer, usually tumid, the upper somewhat glabrous ; 
ligule a dense conspicuons fringe of hairs ; blades linear, tapering to 
an obtuse somewhat callous point, 2-5 in. long, 1-1} lin. broad at 
the base, flat or with the margins involute, rigid, rather thick, 
tracted, dense, 13-3 in. long; branches 2-nate, strict, erect 0 
subobliquely erect, filif 
of the branchlets, greenish white below, brownish in the upper ae 
somewhat shining, 3-32 lin. long; glumes lanceolate in profile, 
setaceously acuminate, subhyaline, scaberulous or smooth, glabrous : 
minutely puberulous, 1-nerved; keel scabrid, sometimes minute y 
tubereled ; valves oblong in profile, body 12 lin. long, loosely hairy 
all over, very thin, white, faintly sub-7-nerved ; lobes distinct, short, 
broad, with a fine bristle about 2 lin. long from the inner angle ; aw? 
6-7 lin. long, kneed at + or 4 way up, twisted; callus mbes 
minutely villous ; pales as long as the valves, finely puberulous ® 
the 2-toothed tip; anthers 12 lin. long. 
Coast Rraron: Cape Div.; sandy places between Groot and Klein Slang 
Kloof, Wolley Dod, 3228! 
‘There is little doubt that this is Danthonia angulata, Nees, Fl. Afr. 
str. 313. 
Sournu AFRICA: without precise locality, Zeyher / 
An 
24. P. aspera (Stapf); perennial ; culms fascicled, rather slender 
ascending from a long decumbent and branched slender base, 3-12 d 
long, glabrous, smooth, very many-noded, densely leafy to or beyon 
(except the upper ones), margins ciliate, mouth conspicnous 3 
bearded ; ligule a fringe of hairs; blades linear, tapering ap 
from the base toa fine callous point, 1-6 in. by 1-2 lin., very 51 
