510. GRAMINEX (Stapf). [ Pentaschistis. 
37. P. patula (Stapf); annual; culms fascicled, very slender, 
3-8 ft. long, glabrous, smooth, 2— 3-n oded, uppermost internodes by 
far the longest, exserted ; sheaths tight, thin, lower short, pubescent, 
striate, closely beset with tubercle-based hairs except at the base, 
upper long glabrous, smooth or almost so; ligule a fringe of short 
iia blades + very narrow, linear, so th g toa n acute or subacute 
1-12 in. long, usually filiform- ton BN rather soft, 
Lo seston like the sheaths or the ga glabrous ; panicle open, 
very lax, more or less divaricate, 14— . long and broad, erect: 
SS] 
very loosely and ivarcataly dichotomous from 2-5 lin. above the 
hase, low at 212 i . long; ultimate divisions and pedicels rather 
longs spikelets src ured, 21-21 lin. long ; glumes setaceously 
nate, hyaline, glabrous, ‘smooth ; body of valves 11 lin, long, 
pte hairy i or be eyond 1 way, very faintly 5-nerved; lobes 
distinct, acute, with a fine bristle 3-] lin. long from the inner side 
and usually more or less adnate to it; awn about 4 lin. long, kneed 
below 4 way up, very fine ; cane as a ai the valves, minutely 
2- toothed ; anthers 1—8 lin. long lin. long. Danthonia 
patula, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. O85; Stoud. ne “Pl. Glum. i. 239; 
Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. Austr. 853. 
VaR. B, glabrata eee hh epi ane Gee or the sheaths slightly hairy below 
the more conspicuously bearded mou blades more rigid, less involute, some- 
times minutely tubercled ra 0 margins. Danthonia patula, Nees in 
Linnea, xx. 254. 
acuta (Stapf); leaves as in var. 8, but rather larger with a line of 
ried halcihes at kg junction of bla <0 and sheath ; lowest sheaths pubescent ; 
divisions of panicle stiffer and coarser than in the re pe; spikelets light olive: 
brown; glumes oa scarcely Apia at less hyaline 
Soutn Arrica: Var. y: without predion a. i a 2587! 
Coasr REGION : Vanrhyusdorp Div. ; sand-hills Macey below 500 ft., 
Drége! Var. 8: Stellenbosch D t Wetidatoas Holland, 1 000-3000 ft., Zeyher! 
pee ciieadeis Div.; lower part of ‘the Zonder Einde River, 500-2000 ft., Zeyher, 
8. P. euadenia (Stapf) ; aniual ; culms fascicled, erect, © 
a and ascending, slender, 2 Lt ft. long, glabrous, aside 
2~3-noded, upper 2 internodes by a5 the longest, exserted ; sheaths 
usually tumid, or the intermediate tight, pallid, glabrous or pubescent, 
usually dotted with numerous seriate often stalked tubercular glands 
by 1-1} , flaceid, , glabrous, margins fringed wit often 
stalked tubercular glands ; as oblong to ovoid, rather lax, con- 
tracted or somewhat 3-31 long; branchlets 2-3-nate, 
ope in. h 
very sparingly sabeheliey Tike” the filiform axis and the capillary 
branchlets and pedicels, otherwise smooth, osama to the axils, 
laxly trichotomous from 2-6 lin. above the s_Q jn. long; 
se, lon 
ultimate divisions and pedicels usually a long ; ‘ hide light 
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