Danthonia.] GRAMINE (Stapf). 523 
by lin. when expanded, very rigid, more or less flexuous or curved, 
et or villous just above the ligule, smooth ; panicle a or 
subcapitate, ovoid to subg pabne, very dense, about 1} in. long 
z 83 
less redu or at least smaller; rhachilla glabrous, joints short ; 
glumes equal, narrow lanceolate, acutely acuminate, subherbaceous 
and ofte r Oo , otherwise scarious, glabrous, 
1-nerved ; valves oblong-lanceolate in profile, body 22 lin. long, 
9-nerved, ‘densely villous to 2 1 or 2 way from the aa with the 
hairs in rows between the nerves, abruptly ending in a dense 
transverse fringe about 2 lin. long, otherwise ane s; lobes 
ee 3 lin. long, scaberulous, hyaline, adnate to the 
awn for 3-1 of its length; awn flat, 5-6 lin. long, with 2 very 
loose twists in the lower 4; callus short, bearded; pales oblong, 
obtuse, 31-32 lin. long, long hairy near the middle; keels 
densely and rigidly ciliate lodicules obovate, cuneate, long ciliate, 
s lin. long; anthe ae lin. long ; ty: glabrous ;_ styles 
slender, distinct, Ae in Linnea, vii. 316; Fl. Afr. Austr. 329 ; 
Trin. ran. Ie. t. 62; Gram. Gen. 70, ond page Ae ad. 
Pétersb. sér » As TL, as in aig ae Mears 33, n Mém. Acad. 
Pétersh. sér. 6, iv. 34; nth, 314; ‘Steud. gn Pl. Glum. 
1, 242; Durand § Sinn, Consp. “PL, ate. ve 851. D. rufa, Nees, 
le. 330; Steud. l.c. 243; Durand & Schinz, le. 854. Avena lanata, 
Schrad. in Goett. peri ao 2075. A. lupulina, Steud. in 
Flora, 1829, 486, not of 7. 
f are ete (Nees, lc.) ; ae somewhat laxer, spikelets | 10-11 lin. long ; 
oret 
Coast Region: Clanwilliam Div. ; Ceder Berg Range, on Blaauw Berg, Drege, 
pend eg Div. ; Table Mountain, ‘Ecklon, 924! Ecklon § Zeyher, 135 in St. 
Petersburg Herb. ! Wolley Dod, 1688! Spielhaus ! near Constantia He Wolley 
Dod, 1678! behind Hout Bay pit ie: ce Ded, 3169! near Constantia, and at 
Doorn Hoogte, Ecklon. ulbagh ; Witzenberg, Vogel Vley and near ar Tulbagh 
Waterfall, Ecklon. Stellenbosch Div; Hottentots Holland, moist ag on fo 
Hs, Ee. e 
Summits of the hills, Ecklon ! Swellendam Div. ; r us Vlei or on the 
eureboom River, Zeyher 4541 ! Caledon Div AE in ee nd places near Genadendal, 
Drége, 1664! untains Baviaans Kloo enadendal, Burchell, 7629 
Uitenhage eld bere Flats to the nort hof Winterhock Mountains, Ecklon. 
ar. B: Cape Div.; Vley bey pr — Wolley Dod, 2956! Swellendam 
me “neh enlian le ocala und ! 
rfect specimen, co: oie in the Orange Free State by ae 
a6, belongs, perhaps, also to this species ; its vpthclete are only 
6. D. lupulina (Roem. & Schult. Syst. ii.690) ; pen compactly 
Cespitose ; culms slender, ereet or subereet, 1-14 ft. long, glabrous ; 
Smooth, 1-2-noded, upper 2 internodes exserted ; leaves perio at 
the base ; basal sheaths densely woolly tomentose, about 2 in. long, 
firm, persistent, the upper glabrous or with a woolly beard at the 
mouth, striate, uppermost 2 tumid, herbaceous; ligule a villous 
