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Oe ee a Ss 
Tire =—_——- Ge  .« ™.. SS aa wo Te = 
RAS (Ce SIT ge eee Tt ap Pee aE ae ey 
SO NS, Te hg ben EA SS ie iy ed re et pees MS 
Pentameris. | GRAMINE (Stapf). 513° 
See oo lin. long; about 
lobes of valves half as long 
as (4) dregeana. 
Blades squarrose, ie 2-3 i in, long, very hard 
and rigid, with obtuse tips . (5) squarrosa, 
1. P. Thuarii (Beauv. Agrost. 93, t. 18, fig. 8); culms erect, 
very firm, in dense and tight fascieles from a woody, sometimes 
branched and suffrutescent, base, which is densely covered by the 
remnants of old sheaths, 1-2 ft. high, glabrous, mol densely 
a! es ay way ne ae 2-3 internodes usually ex rted ; ; ae aths 
hairy on the upper side; panicle obovoid, lax, open or contracted, 
2-4 in. long, erect or slightly nodding ; axis filiform like all the 
divisio ons, scaberulous to scabrid; branches 3-2-nate or solitary, 
finely filiform, obliquely erect, sparingly divided from 1-3 way above 
the base or simple, 6—1-spicu ulate, longest up to 2 in. long ; ; branchlets 
and pedicels subcapillary, unequal, latter 3-12 lin. long ; Spikelets 
erect, whitish or straw-coloured, 7-9 lin. long, shining; glumes 
very long and finely acuminate, hyaline’ to subhyaline, ‘scene 
sce 
9-1]-nerved ; lobes broad, scaberulous, acute or 0 suddenly 
contracted into a setaceous acumen, or 2-toothed with a bristle 
3-3} lin long from the inner angle, adnate to } way 9 lin. 
Jong, kneed between 3 and } way up, column rather stout; pales 
w 
very broad, as long as the valve, hairy below, obtusely or acutely 
; grain broadly Shien, is weagee 
, granular ; hilum almost + the length of 
the grain; seed whitish. Roem. § Schult. Syst. ii. 693. P. 
Thouarsit, Kunth, Rev. Gram. i. t. 66; Enum. i. 315 (exel. syn.) ; 
Suppl. 270. Danthonia Thuarii, Desv. Opuse. Me — 8 yn) j FA 
_ 856. D. 
ie Dareba (Stapf) ; culms stout, - ft. high, simple for more than 1 ft., 
a with a rect, barren, intravaginal branches and simple again above them ; 
eee up to ‘Z1 lin. broad ; panicle very ao up to more than 6 in long, longest 
in. lo ong. 
ota a Worcester Diy. ; fei — ridges near Dutoits Kloof, 
D ége / Caledon Div.; rocky places near Genadendal, 1, 2000-3000 ft., 
rege ! Realean Div. ; ed gorge on Zuu rbraak Mountain, 1000 ft., 
Galpin, — and withou t precise locality, Zeyher! var. B: Riversdale Div. ; 
lower gi f the Lange ears near Kampsche ee: Burchell, 6964! 
The pecimen, represen t variety §, has the a’ of 
annual ; but the : pikelets we ekacthe J Bo the type, Barcel Says th 
*pecimens grown “ Ful Iham from the is of -his no. 6964 attained a 
Bory VI, Ei 
