Danthonia.]} GRAMINEX (Stapf). 527 
Albany Div.; wet places on the mountains around Howisons coy near 
Grahamstown, 1800 ft., MacOwan § Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust. Afr. 
. D. Macowanii (Stapf) ; perennial, tufted ; culms erect, rather 
slender, over 2 t. long, smooth, glabrous, all the nodes close to the 
uppermost up to 1} ft. long, purplish, tight, terete ; ligule a dense, 
short, villous fringe ; Blades. filiform, tightly involute or canaliculate, 
subpungent, lower over 12 ft., uppermost 1-2 ft. long, very rigid, 
straight, glaucous, Sassy “striate ; panicle erect, contracted, sub- 
linear; 8-1 in. long; axis filiform, terete, smooth, glabrous ; 
branches solitary, erect or suberect, lowest to 3 ft. long, divided 
0 in. or less or the upper from close above the base, like the 
arse a rae filiform, sine smooth ; ultimate divisions 
and pedicels more or less fnscieled, very unequal, latter from 1-6 lin 
7 lin. long, shining ; florets 4, uppermost 1 or 2 nition tiers or at 
least reduced in size ; thachilla glabrous, joints 3 lin. long; glumes 
narrow lanceolate, finely acuminate in profile, scarious, glabrous, 
prominent below, with an oblique transverse fringe of 3 tufts of 
hairs on each side near the base and towards the margins (about 
1; lin. long), otherwise glabrous 
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Red 
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ciliate, over 1 lin. long; anthers in. long; 
glabrous ; ar distinct, short. 
ENTRAL ReEGion: Somerset Div. ; e banks of streamlets near the 
summit of Bosch Berg, and aay in the mea ‘a the Little Fish River, 4800 ft 
MacOwan, 4800 ft., 1986! 
il. D. dura (Stapf) ; perennial, tufted, with numerous innovation 
shoots ; culms erect, ft. long, glabrous, smooth, 
3-noded, upper internodes + ft. long, exserted; leaves crowded at 
the base; ; sheaths tight, very obscurely enate glabrous, usually 
ponies st firmly scarious, pallid, up to } ft. long; 7 a 
in, 
than the sheath, wir ry, canaliculate, subaeute, over 2 ft. long, very 
firm, desea glabrous, smooth; panicles linear to oblong-linear, 
noddin 6-7 in. long, loosely cont racted ; axis subeom ressed oF 
Subangular, ieoakh at least below ; branches Sree di alternately 
rire from near the base, or the lowest from 4-2 in. above it and 
Up to 2 in. long and 10-12. a penis like the branchlets and 
pedicels, subflexuous, com wpressed or angular, scabrid at least above, 
glabrous, or almost so - ; pedicels ea unequal, from 1-8 lin. long, 
