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Danthonia. ] GRAMINEZ (Stapf). 521 
slightly nodding, 23-4 in. long; axis angular or compressed, striate ; 
branches solitary, alternately and very sparingly divided from near the 
d; valves spindle-shaped in profile; body 3 lin. 
ng, firm, villous all along, 9-nerved ; lobes . . 
2-21 lin. long, scaberulous, ciliolate, villous below, wholly adnate 
to the loosely twisted and flexuous side-bristles, these 5-8 lin. long ; 
awn about 1 lin. long, kneed at + way up, stout, brown, tightly 
twisted below ; callus slender, subpungent, densely villous; pales 
very narrow, about 5 lin. long, tips puberulous; lodicules glabrous 
or ciliolate, 3-2 lin. long; ovary glabrous, stigmas sessile, stigmatic 
hairs joining over the top of the ovary 
Sourn AFRica: without precise locality, Zeyher, 1826 5! 
3. D. : 
compactly tufted ; culms erect, slender or rather stout, 11 ft. long, 
glabrous, smooth, 2-noded, upper 2 internodes usually exserted, rarely 
sheathed all along; leaves erowded at the base; basal sheaths 
ligule a dense villous fringe; blades linear, filiform-involute, or 
flat below, acute to subobtuse, 4-8 in. by 1-2 lin. when expanded, 
erect, straight or slightly curved, very firm, scantily hairy on the back, 
at least when young, smooth, whitish above, strongly striate ; panicle 
oblong to ovate, erect, loosely contracted, 3-4 in. long ; axis more or 
less angular, smooth, striate; branches fascicled or 2-nate and very 
i ivi r th 
\nequal, or solitary and sparingly divided from or near the bi 
shire ; : 
rhachilla glabrous, joints about 
st rudimentary; glumes 
z ln. long 
lanceolate, narrow, long and acutely acuminate, equal, subherbaceous- 
on the back, otherwise scarious, smooth or scaberulous near the tips, 
3~5-nerved below, scantily transversely veined; valves oblong- 
ceolate in profile, body 2-21 lin. long, 9-nerved, densely villous 
to the middle, hairs in rows between the nerves terminating in a 
