522 GRAMINE® (Stapf). [ Danthonia. 
2 lin, _long, bearded ; pales oblong, minutely 2-toothed, 3 lin. 
ie at or below the middle; keels densely and rigidly 
eiliclate ; lodicules 1 lin. long, tips siliclete anthers 21 lin. long ; 
ovary glabrous ; styles distinct. Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. 
55. 
ABR. 8, paige (Stapf); upper sheaths woolly; spikelets 9-12 lin. 
long; glumes tee and finely hairy or almost woolly ; lobes of valves very 
narrow, finely pubescent. 
Coast REGION : aanisttin Div.; mountains near Puspus _ Zeyher, 
4555 ! corks Div.; on Post Berg (Cradock Berg) near George, Burchell, 
5933 ! r, B: Cap . ae 3 be nih Slang Kop and Red Hill, beset, Wolley 
Dod, sey low hills south of Kommetje, Wolley Dod, 1572 
The typical form is perhaps identical with Danthonia decora, Nees, Fl. Afr, 
Austr. 332, which I have not seen. 
4. D. macrocephala (Stapf) ; perennial, compactly tufted ; culms 
rather slender, erect, 1 ft. long, glabrous, smooth, 1- 2-noded, upper 
internodes shortly ‘exserted ; leaves crowded at the base; basal 
woolly beard at the mouth, strongly striate ; ligule a dense villous 
fringe ; paren tightly filiform-involute, wiry, rather stout, obtuse, 
lower hee i ft. long, uppermost tied short, glabrous, ‘smooth ; 
panicle enpiltaite, compact, globose-ovoid, 2-21 in. long; axis smooth, 
striate ; _ brane hes very prs divided from the base ; branehie® 
upwards, 5- to ab 7-nerved, side-nerves cer valves oblo ong- 
lanceolate in profile ; body 91-3 lin. long, Ginerved, densely villous 
to 2 the way from the base with the hairs in rows betw. een nerves; 
abruptly ans 7 a dense tranverse fringe about 22 lin. long, 
awn fiat, 5-6 lin. long with 2 very loose twists in the lower > 
obtuse, 32-3} ln. 
long, long hairy near the middle; keels densely and rigidly ¢ ciliate ; 
Hg obovate, 2 lin. long, ciliate ; grain obovoid-oblony, 14 lin. 
ie 
H AFRICA: without dope locality, but probably from Caledon, Tulbagh, 
or Clanwilliam Division, Thom 
. D. lanata (Schrad. in Schult. Mant. ii. tea _apeme ors 
pactly igen culms slender, erect, 311 ft. long, ‘glabrous, smoot 
]-2-n upper 2 2 internodes exserted ; leaves crowded a t the base 5 
basal ional very eae — tomentose, 13—2 in. lon. re “a 
striate, uppermost 1 or 2 tum nels herbaceous; ligule a villous fring? > 
lades linear, tightly or loosely filiform-conyolnte, subpungent, 3 
