Pentasehistis.] GRAMINEZ (Stapf). 505 
glabrescent, sparingly dotted with seriate Se a a 
igule a fringe of very short hairs; blades linear, very n , acute 
1- ee in. by + lin., usually involute, lower eeier like The yirtorres 
upper glabrous, margins lined with small glands; panicle erect, 
ovoid, open, very lax or contracted, 1-11 in. long; branches like 
ap finely filiform axis = the capillary branchlets dotted with 
axi . 
ati asia divarieate, lowest up to 10 lin. long; branchlets and 
pedicels rather long, the latter scaberulous; spikelets 13-2 lin. long, 
straw-coloured; glumes acutely acuminate, subhvaline, glabrous, 
smooth ; aie, oblong, body 1 lin, long, loosely hairy all over, very 
Chpeeaty 7-nerved ; lobes more or less. gradually ——: nae fine 
bristles, 7-1 lin. long ; awn 32 lin. long, kneed below iddle ; 
pales scantily hairy, as long as the valves; grain : es ong. 
rei aa glandulosa, var. minor, an Fl. Afr. Austr, 289 
(partly). 
PO sea Re@ion: Aliwal North Div.; on the Witte Bergen, 7000-8000 ft., 
rege ! 
31. P. filiformis (Stapf) ; perennial, densely tufted ; — erect, 
filiform, about 3-1 ft. long, smooth, 2-noded 
uppermost internode occupying more than } of the oe exserted ; 
leaves glabrous excepting a long seanty beard at the mouth of the 
sheaths ; sheaths tight or lower at length loosened, rather thin, 
finely striate, lower “short, pallid ; ligule a fringe of minute hairs ; 
very minute tubercular glands ; panicle ovate to oblong, lax, open or 
con ntracted, 1-22 in. long, erect; branches 2-nate, like the finely 
filiform axis and the wine branchlets and pedicels dotted with 
very minute tubercles or almost smooth, glabrous except at the 
panalaly bearded swollen —_ remotely player divided 
rom 2 2-8 lin. above the abaya lower { ~2 in. long; ultimate divisions 
minutely 2- toothed; anthers 1 lin. Ben, piers filiformis, Nees, 
Fl. Afr. Austr. 293 ; eee Syn. Pi. Glum. i. 240; Durand & 
Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. 850. 
Western Reaion: Little Namaaalnd oo Bergen, at Ezels Fontein, 
between Rood Berg and Ezels Kop, , Drége, 2584! near Modder 
Fonteins Berg, 4000-5000 ft., Drege, eri ! eae 
