Pentaschistis.] GRAMINEZ (Stapf), 511 
greenish-straw-coloured, 2 lin. long ; glumes sri broad, finely 
acuminate, glabrous, subhyaline, keels scaberulou dy of valves 
1} lin, long, very sparingly hairy below, very frdvictby seaberulous 
above, faintly 5—7-nerved ; y hip obscure passing into fine bristles, 
3-1 lin. long; awn 3-4 lin. long, kneed below 2 way, very fine ; 
pales as long as the =e toothed anthers 1 lin. long. Danthonia 
glandulosa, var. spec ees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 289 (excl. syn. in 
at D. Smillie, ‘Sleud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 939, not Schrad, 
RN Reeton: Little pias Kamies Bergen, between Pedros 
Kat vn ri Fontein, 3000-4000 tt., Drége! Modder Fonteins Berg, 4500 ft. 
rége, 2581 
_ Another species from der » esigies Berg, ollogted by Drége, was also 
issned as “ Pentaschistis glandu B speciosa”; it is P. tomentella. What 
Danthonia glandulosa (Schrad. “ “Schult Mant ‘i 5) i do not venture 
to sa is a per about ft. high, whilst Nees 3 
chrader’s origin pecimen i erbarium at Berlin ee a Pere 
his varie specio This is probably du inter’ 
ant to stand under variety a. s’s variety a, however. ian certainly 
a 2 species, one of which is Steudel’s ‘‘ Danthonia heteropla” (Syn 
pone ih verebd heey & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. Mp es wae eesti is “hae 
described a as Pentaschistis Jugorum, Stapf. the original 
of Stendel’s Danthonia enesian but I suspect that it is i: Peltonen patula. 
39. P. airoides (Stapf); annual; culms fascicled, erect or 
i a and ascending, very slender, 2-6 in. long, glabrous, 
ooth, 2—3-n oded, uppermost internodes by far By longest ; leaves 
Fike glands, bearded or bear ; ligule a fringe of short baie 
blades linear, tapering to an a point, 4-1 in in., 
aie to tubercular-pectinate ; panicle lax, open or contracted, 
zl} i oe and broad ; branches 2-nate, like the very fine axis 
and the capillary branchiets and pedicels smooth or scantily and 
minutely tubercled, glabrous, loosely and often divarieately tricho- 
tomous from 1-3 fins: "above the base, longest 1—1 in. long; ultimate 
divisions and pedicels rather short ; spikelets straw-coloured, usually 
tinged with purple, 11—11 lin. long; glumes acuminate to acute, 
Smooth, glabrous, subhyaline; body “of valves 3-1 lin. long, shortly 
hairy or glabrous, callus hairy ; lobes psi ld passing ‘into ne 
bristles, 3-12 lin, long; anthers ellipsoid, 3-1 lin. long; grain 
entameris atroides, Nees in Sem. Hort. 
Bot. Vratist. 1834, and in Linnea, x. Litt.-Ber. 118. Danthonia 
airoides, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 284; — 8, - Pi. Glum. i, 239; 
wren Schinz, Consp, Fl. Afr. D. cyatophora, N 
Fl, Afr. Austr. 286; Steud. Le. 939; “Paoni § Schinz, Le. 849. 
= Dap ige Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 240 (from the description) : 
Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 855. 
Tt Ree C. ‘ s Head, Wolley Dod, 3095! 
stony Dies ; + Both Borg, 2200 me gee New 1291! Fort Beaufort Div.; Kat 
