524 GRAMINE (Stapf). [ Danthonia. 
fringe; blades filiform, involute, subacute or subobtuse, 3-6 in. 
long, very rigid, subflexuous, glabrou s or villous just above the 
ligule, smooth; panicle capitate or spike-like, globose to oblong, 
1-12 in. long ; axis striate, smooth, sometimes puberulous ; branches 
isis bearded at the axils, very closely divided from the base; 
branchlets and pedicels very short; spikelets imbricate, 4-7 lin. 
long ; Boeate 4-5, uppermost gor nasi 9 thachilla glabrous, joints 
in a somewhat rigid dense transverse fringe, about 14 lio. long, 
otherwise glabrous ; lobes short, ovate, acute, about 1 lin. long, often 
almost wholly adnate to rane wn, scaberulous or puberulous ; aw 
2-4 lin. long, flat, straight or imperfeetly twisted below ; callus 
short, villous ; pales obovate, obtuse, 2-23 lin. long, long hairy near 
the middle ; keels densely and rigidly ciliolate ; lodieules obovate or 
cuneate, ciliate, 3 4 lin. mas anthers 1-12 lin. long ; ; ovary glabrous ; 
styles distinct, slender. Nees in Linnea, vii. 315; Fl. Afr. Austr. 
Gram. Gen. 70, and in Mém. Acad. Pétersb. sér. 6, i. 70; Kunth, 
Le. 314. Avena lupulina, Thunb. Prod. 23; Fl. Cap. i. 438; ed: 
Schult. 118. 
Sour Arrica: without precise locality, Thuwnberg! Herb. Harvey, 272! 
Bergius ! 
Coast Reaton: Cape Div.; sandy plains between Tyger Berg and S 
Mountain, Drage! Cape Flats near Doorn Hoogte, Ecklon. Table ae 
Spielhaus ! Paarl Div.; Klein Drakenstein Mountains, Drége! Paarl Mountain, 
é i é 
in St. Petersburg Herb.! Winterhoek Mountain, 5000 ft., Ecklon ; Ecklon LA 
Zeyher, 136 in St. Petersburg Herb.! Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, in er 
rocky places, 1500-3000 ft., Drége. erent Div. ; near Stellenbos¢ : 
Harvey! Alesander ! Hottentots Holland, Ecklon! Swellendam Div.; Pusp" 
Valley, Voormans Bosch and Keurbooms ver Ecklon § Zeyher. 
7. D. elephantina (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 334) ; pont, tufted ; 
culms erect, very robust, fascicled at the base with 1 or en 
an ous ; ligt 
dense fringe of short hairs; blades loosely filiform-involute below, 
se and involute or canaliculate and very long and finely at 
upper part, acute, 1 to more than 2 ft. long, up to 23 
