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. P. longiglumis (Stapf) ; culms erect, slender, firm, in dense 
and tight fascicles from a slender woody base, 11-2 ft. high, 
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eonvolute from a broader base, 6-9 in. long, lower up to « Hn. 
broad at the base, rigid, flexuous, glabrous and smooth below, finely 
paniele very lax, open, 6-7 in. long; rhachis filiform, smooth, 
bearded at the lower axils, otherwise smooth ; branches 2—3-nate of 
solitary, very loosely di- to tri-chotomous or alternately divided from 
2 to 11 in. above the base, longest 4-5 in. long, filiform, flexuous, 
glabrous, smooth; branchlets and pedicels unequal, subcapillary, 
as the body of the valve or almost so, with a bristle 3—4 lin. long, 
from the inner side, adnate to it for * its length; awn about - lin. 
long, kneed at 1 way up; pales as long as the valve (inclusive of 
the lobes), densely pubeseent, 2-toothed ; lodicules ciliate ; anthers 
2 lin. long. Danthonia longiglumis, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 306 ; 
Stend. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 241; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. 
v. 852. 
Coast Reeion : Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Burchell, 542! 598! Spielhaus ! 
Milne, 2461 
3. P. speciosa (Stapf); culms erect, very firm and stiff, woody 
below, fascicled, simple or usually branched above the base, with the 
branches in tight fascicles, 11 to more than 2 ft. long, glabrous, 
smooth, closely and very tightly sheathed beyond the middle or all 
along; sheaths coriaceous, extremely tight, smooth, often shining, 
not striate, glabrous except a fugacious dense flake of wool at the 
mouth ; ligule a dense fringe of hairs; blades filiform, finely pointed 
pedicels ; lower branches 2-nate or fascieled, longest up to 
2} in. long, seantily and loosely branched from e = 
undivided for 3-9 lin., 6-1l-spiculate; spikelets straw-coloured 
valves linear-oblong, body 2}~3 lin. long, pubescent to or eyond 
the middle, 7-nerved; lobes lanceolate, minutely and unequally 
bifid, seaberulous, about 1-11 lin. long, outer tooth acute, hyaline, 
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