502 GRAMINEX (Stapf). [ Pentuschistis. 
as long as the valves, minutely 2-toothed, tips ciliolate ; anthers 
1 lin. long 
Coast Reacion: Mossel Bay Div.; between the landing-place at Mossel Bay 
and Cape Saint Blaize, Burchell, 6270! 
26. P. tomentella (Stapf) ; perennial, densely czespitose ; culms 
erect, very slender, up to 1 ft. long, glabrous,-smooth, 2—3-noded ; 
all over, glaucous; sheaths tight, lower very short, whitish, thin, 
remotely striate; ligule a fringe of hairs; blades linear, subacute, 
1-11 in. by % lin., usually setaceously involute, rigid, recurved; 
panicle erect, ovate, contracted, 1-11 in. long; branches 2-nate, 
like the very fine rhachis and the capillary branchlets and pedicels 
scaberulous or very minutely tubercled, glabrous except at the 
pubescent swollen axils, 3—1 in. long, closely and sparingly tricho- 
tomous from 3-1 lin. above the base; ultimate divisions and pedicels 
short ; spikelets whitish below, straw-coloured above, 22 lin. long; 
glistening ; glumes broad-lanceolate in profile, subacuminate, hyaline, 
minutely pubescent, l-nerved;. keel minutely tubercled ; valves 
oblong in profile, body 1 lin. long or slightly longer, glabrous excey't 
at the base and along the lower margins, faintly 7_9-nerved, 
nerves raised in the upper part ; lobes almost wholly reduced to @ 
fine bristle not exceeding the glumes; awn 2% lin. long, kneed and 
twisted below the middle; callus very short, sparingly bearded ; 
pales as long as the valves, 2-toothed; anthers slightly over ] lin. 
long. 
Western Region : Little Namaqualand ; Modder Fonteins Berg, Drége! 
_ Distributed by Drége as ‘‘ Pentaschistis glandulosa, B speciosa,” but not taken 
l Austr i Fl, 
b 
up in Nees, Fl. Afr, . ‘* Danthonia glandulosa, B speciosa,” Nees, 
Afr, Austr. 289, is Pentaschisti denta, Stapf, an annual. 
27. P. angustifolia (Stapf); perennial, Censely tufted; culms 
erect or subascending, simple or branched and fascicled below with 
numerous crowded innovation-shoots, $11 ft. long, glabrous, smooth, 
4- to many-noded, closely sheathed below, upper 2-3 internodes more 
or less exserted and very much longer than the rest ; sheaths tight 0" 
the uppermost tumid, bearded or beardless at the mouth, otherw1s® 
glabrous, rarely softly pubescent, striate, lower firm, persistent 5 
ligule a fringe of hairs; blades usually filiform, tapering to 4 fine 
point, 2-8 in. by 3-1 lin. when expanded, firm, tightly puctat 
erulous 
axils, trichotomous from 1-1 way above the base, lowest 1-2 in. 
crowded towards the ends of the branches, 23-3 lin. lon 
green or tinged with violet and brown; glumes acuminate, sub- 
hyaline, glabrous, smooth, keel scaberulous; body of valves 1j-1s 
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