508 GRAMINEZ (Stapf). [ Peutaschistis, 
broader, usually filiform- —— rarely flat, flaccid or flexuous, 
finely striate ; panicle erect, more or less ovate, contracted, dense, or 
sometimes open and almost Gastionio, 1-3 in. long; branches 2- nate, 
like the filiform axis and the eapillary branchlets and pedicels 
scaberulous, glabrous except at the more or less hairy swollen axils, 
g 
l-nerved, glabrous, keels finely scabrid; valves much shorter than 
the glumes, oblong in profile, body 1 lin. long, finely hairy from 
almost villous to ‘subglabrous (hairs soft, seriate), faintly 5- to sub- 
9-nerved ; lobes + to almost 3 lin. long, more or Jess acute, witha . 
- fine bristle, a 1} lin, long, from the inner side and more or less 
te to it, rarely free ; awn about 31 lin. long, fine, kneed at 
ya up, twisted below ; callus short, acute, minutely hairy ; 
oo as long as the body of the valves, 2-toothed ; ‘anthers 3 lin. long ; 
grain slightly over + lin. lon Avena pallida, Thunb. Prodr. 22; 
C : paar 
onsp. Ji 
‘Schult, Mant. ii. 385, not of Trin. D. ‘micrantha, Trin. Gram. en. 
71, and in Mem. ‘Acad, Pétersb. ser. 6,1. 71; Kunth, Enum. 
Pl. 314. D, villosa, Steud. ex Trin. Gram. ey 33, and in Mém. 
Acad. Pétersb. sér. 6, iv. ae Ne part); Nees, Fl . Afr. Austr. 294; 
Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum 
Var. B, ebarbata (St m0 fone paps pagers: ‘reg 2-6 in. by 1 lin. 
Danthonia Ea RG Nees ex Dre 
Var. ¥, brevifolia (Stap ve in. xa ves a, beardless ; blades 
3-9 lin. long 4 to almost 1 lin broad, ri Sa spreading ; ‘panicle dense, up to 
Lin. long. Danthonia procumbens var. (?), Nees ex Drége in Linnzxa, xx- 254, 
Be berthiias var. gre Nees, l.c 
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Var. 3, bulbothrix (S tape) 5 3 a bier ek pa the re pags finely 
bins with hari based pa r sometimes glabrescent 
pee labrous and beardless; hid oa ng i ru “ten, hairy like. ee sheaths or 
he eine not tubercle- based, 0 r the “pps ginbrons, but Looe, on the upper side ; 
nie dense, 14-2 in. long ; iiive very sparingly and shortly hairy near the 
H AFRICA: without precise locality, Mund Maire! Harvey, 256 
Zeyher n var. 8B, Thunberg ! var. 5, Herb. Caley ! Harvey, 300! 
‘oast REGION : Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Ecklon, 939! sepa aneay: 397! 
Milne, 242! sandy plains near Capetown, Ecklon, 938! between Raspenberg Viey 
and Watchhouse, Wolley Dod, 3494! Lions Head, towards Kamps Bay, Welley 
Dod, 3132! common all over the Lions Head, Wolley Dod, 3572! common betwee? 
oa ag and Newlands, Wolley Dod, 3558! W ynberg Hill, Wolley Dod, 
a: Wolley Dod, 
1 
hges near Claremont, Wolley Dod, 1822! deena Bay, Wright / Paarl Div. 5 
Wate 
1000-2000 ft., Drage ! Tulbagh Div.; Tulbagh 
Eeklon 5 “Zeyher, 119! Worcester Div. ; pate: near Wor rete, Zeyher! Var. B 
Swellendam Div:; dry hills along the lowesta part of the Zonder inde Ri 
500-2000 rig pdt 4536! Riversdale Div. ; tical Little Vet River 
