516 GRAMINEE (Stapf). [ Pentameris. 
squarrose, subulate-involute from a broad and almost flat base, with 
callous obtuse tips, 2-3} in. by 1}—2 lin. at the base, very firm an 
rigid, closely and strongly striate, glabrous, very scabrid near the 
tips, margins seabrid all along ; panicle contracted, sublinear, strict, 
31-4 in. long; branches 2-nate, 4—2-spiculate from 3-6 lin. above 
the base or 1-spiculate, filiform like the axis, smooth, pubescent at 
the axils; pedicels very unequal, 2-12 lin. long, finely filiform, 
8 lin 
smooth; spikelets 8— . long, straw-coloured; glumes long 
awn 9-10 lin. long, kneed at the middle, column rather stout ; 
pales 33 lin. long, narrow, very hairy all over; lodicules ciliate. 
Coast Reeion: Caledon Div.; Nieuw Kloof in Houw Hoek Mountains, 
Burchell, 8076! 
XXXVII. DANTHONIA, DC. 
ens 3. Ovary oblong or obovoid, glabrous ; ge 
top of the ovary; stigmas plumose, laterally exserted. Grain 
oblong, obovoid or ellipsvid, usually semiterete, rarely almost terete ; 
hilum obscure, oblong, short; embryo 1 to 2 the length of the 
grain. 
Perennial, rarely annual; leaves very variable; panicle with usually oe 
alternately and closely divided branches, often very dense, sometimes compactly 
capitate, rarely transformed into a distichous spike. 
Species 65-70, mostly in the temperate regions of the Southern Hemisphere, 
particularly in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. 
Spikelets 14-2 in. long; stigmatic hairs decurrent on 
the inner side of the styles and joining over the top 
of the ovary: 
