-Pentaschistis. | -GRAMINEE (Stapf). O01 
rigid or at length flexuous or curled, flat, prominently striate on both 
sides, sometimes scaberulous on the upper side, margins tubercled ; 
paniele ovoid to oblong, contracted, dense, erect, 12-3 in. lon 
branches 2-4-nate, smooth like the filiform axis and the capillary 
branchlets and pedicels, or the latter scabrid, glabrous or scantily } hairy 
at the callous axils, rarely tubercled, trichotomously vided from 
the base or the lower from above it ; ultimate divisions anit pedicels 
rather short; spikelets crowded, 3— 3h lin. long, light greenish or 
slightly tinged with purple, scarcely shining : glumes equal or almost 
so, lanceolate in profile, acuminate, subhyaline, l-nerved, glabrous; 
keel smooth or sparingly and minutely tubercled ; valves much 
shorter than the glumes, linear-oblong in profile, body 13-12 lin, 
long, finely hairy, with the hairs seriate, finely 7-nerved ; ‘lobe 
minute, truncate, denticulate, with a fine bristle, 13-2 lin. long, 
from the inner side; awn kneed near the middle, twisted below; 
callus short, villous ; pales as long as the valves, obscurely 2-toothed ; 
anthers 12 lin, lon ng. Holcus asper, Thunb. Prodr. 20; Fl. Cap. ed. 
Schult. 21; Sorghum asperum, oem. & Schult. Syst. ii. 839 
eng. : 
Steud. in Flora, 1839, ii. 481, not of Spreng. Andropogon (2) asper, 
Kunth, Rév. Gram. i. 166. Pentameris papillosa, Nees in Linnea, 
vii, 31] sao syn. Schrad.). Danthonia papillosa, Trin. Spec. 
Gram, Ic. t. 66; Gram. Suppl. 33, and in Mém. Aca rite 
sér. 6, iv. 34 (not sér. 6, i. 71); Nees, Fl. Afr, Austr. 299 ; Steud. 
Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 239; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 853. 
st Region: Cape Div; ; Table Mountain, —— g! Ecklon, 935! Harvey ! 
Burchell, 535! ot re nae Bolus ! = Monntain, "Berg ius! west 
Pee of Lions Head, d, 3570! cig over Millers Point, Wolley oh oe 
—e E. eee (Stapf); perennial, densely tufted ; culms erect, 
very slender, 5-6 in. long, glabrous, smooth, 2—3-node d, upper 1-2 
internodes by far the longest, exserted ; leaves mostly basal, glabrous 
except at the ciliate sheath-margins ; sheaths very tight, lower very 
short, firm, broad, imbricate, persistent, striate ; ligule a dense fringe 
of short hairs ; blades setaceous, fine, subacute, 1-4 in. long, tightly 
involute from the base, rigid, curved, smooth, purplish ; panicle 
small, contracted or open and lax, 1-1} in. long, erect ; branches 
like the subcapillary axis, the capillary branchlets and pedicels 
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colored, nti ti with brown and violet, a4 lin. long, glistening; 
glumes lanceolate in profile, long and finely acuminate, glabrous, 
Subhyaline, 1-nerved ; keel minutely tubercled ; valves pen rane 
dy over 12 lin. long, finely and shortly hairy all over, hairs seriate, 
rather rigid ; lobes short, subaente, with a fine bristle, 2-2} lin. Jong, 
tom the inner side, iidnate to it; awn 5-6 lin. lon . Kkneed at and 
twisted below the middle ; callus stint ‘minutely ‘bearded ; pales 
