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526 GRAMINEM (Stapf). — [Danthonia. 
acute, 2 lin. long, equalled by the hair tufts; awn about 6-7 lin. 
long, kneed at the - middle, stout, loosely twisted below, bristle rather 
flat ; eallus over + lin. long bearded ; pales linear-oblong, 34 lin. 
scantily ple keels ciliolate ; ‘lodicules glabrous ; anthers 
2-27 lin. long; ovary glabrous ; styles distinct, slender. Steud. 
Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 243; Durand §& Schinz, Consp. Fi. Afr. v. 853 
Co Region: Riversdale Div. ; between Little Vet River and Kam oie 
Berg, “Burchell, 6902! ie Div .; by the Zwartkops River, Ecklon Sf 
£508 er, 469 ! Burchell, 443 
ees also refers to this species Drége’s specimens from the Kromme River 
iehcamedoes Div.) and Enon (Alexandria Div.) which I have not seen 
9. D. cincta (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 332); perennial, densely 
tufted ; oles erect, very robust, faseicled with long, very stout 
glabrous, smooth, sheathed all along, or the uppermost internode 
exserted and then to more than 1} “tt. long ; sheaths tight or the 
uppermost tumid, very firm, striate, glabrous ee ciliate along the 
margins below, lower very broad, coriaceous, up to more than ¢ ft. 
long, uppermost 4 -1 ft. long; ligule a ense mk of hairs; blades 
very long ag “tapering to a fine pungent t, up to more than 
3 ft. by 2 1 lin, when goer ats usually eighty ayes SOME: 
and strongly nerved on the upper surface ; pene avec: almost 
spike-like, lanceolate or linear-oblong, very dense, up to mor 
ft. by 1-3 in., shining, almost silvery; axis rather stout, more oF 
Jess angular, glabrous or finely hairy, smooth; branches solitary, 
divided from the very base, ee to 5 in. long, ereet 5 branchle 
most rudimentary ; rhachilla glabrous, joints 3 lin. long ; oo 
narrow, lanceolate, acuminate, subhyaline, glabrous, smooth, 1-nervé 
or sho ortly 3-nerved ; valves oblong-lanceolate in profile, mre! 
a lin. long, distinetly T-nerved, with a transverse fringe of tufts 
ong hairs “(22 lin. long) at the ee otherwise glabrous ; 
narrow, subulate-laneeolate, very acu 12 lin. long, hyaline, 
scaberalous; awn 2-3 lin. long, slightly ee and twisted at } the 
way from the base, flat ; callus slender, shortly villous ; pales linear- 
oblong, 23 lin. long, keels densely and rigidly ciliolate ; 3 er 
glabrous ; styles distinct, slender. Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum . 2435 
Durand $ Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 848 
Coast ReGion: Cape Div.; near Constantia and Doorn Hoogte, Ee 
Muizenberg Vley, Wolley Dod, 2356! near the convict satabligbmen nt at pe 
Watley Dod, 2192! Tulbagh Div.; near Taiteey vary eg i . al 
lon 3 
Uitenhage Div.; by the Zw peti wad er, Beklon x Sener. 979! 137 and - 
rn ee Petersburg Herb.) ! betwe n Stadensberg Range an 
e! between Leadmine River. mi Van prailent River, Burchell, 
