520 GRAMINEE (Stapf). [ Danthonia. 
point, 3-1 ft. by 1-2 lin. (when expanded), firm, flexuous, smooth, 
except at the scaberulous margins ; panicle contracted, ovate to oblong, 
3-7 in. long, erect or slightly nodding; axis angular below, striate 
above ; branches solitary, alternately divided from near the base, 
smooth like the very unequal branchlets and pedicels, filiform ; pedi- 
cels 1—] in. long ; spikelets straw-coloured, 13—2 in. long, erect ; florets 
(fertile) 2, much shorter than the glumes; rhachilla long continued 
with a rudimentary floret; glumes unequal to subequal, lower 
n 
as long as the valves, minutely 2-toothed, glabrous, cartilaginous 
below ; lodicules obovate-cuneate, glabrous, many-nerved, 3-} lin. 
long ; anthers 3} lin. long ; ovary glabrous ; stigmas sessile, stigmatic 
hairs joining over the top of the stigma; grain linear-oblong, 
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i. 71; Gram. Suppl. 34, and in Mém. Acad. Pétersb. sér. 6, 
iv. 35; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 319; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 242 ; 
Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 852. D. juncea, Trin. Gram. 
Suppl. l.c.; Steud. lc. 248; Durand & Schinz, l.c, 851. Avent 
macrocalycina, Steud. in Flora, 1829, 482. Pentameris macrantha, 
Nees in Linnea, vii. 316; Kunth, Enum. i, 316.  Pentaschostrs 
(ly error) macrantha, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 1.c. 
GION: Piqu Div.; Piquetberg, 2000 ft., Drége. Cape Div. 
Table M n, Drage! Ecklon, 932! Ecklon § Zeyher! 132! among rocks 0 
the north side of Table Mountain, MacOwa b. Aust. Afr. 1699! pear oo 
town, ! Farmer Peck Valley, Wolley Dod, 2808! Devils Peak, Bergtus 
ape Fla ogte, Ecklon § Zeyher, 1825! Cape Peninsula, low 
Constantia, Eckion. Malmesbury Div. ; Groene Kloof, Ecklon. Caledon _ 
Klyn Riversberg Range, Ecklon. Mossel Bay Div. ; hills near the landing- 
Mossel Bay, Burchell, 6292! Riversdale Div.; hills near the Zoete- 
melks River, Burchell, 6752 ! 
; culms subaseending 
from a short slender rhizome, covered with tight hard seales, very 
