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528 GRAMINEE (Stapf). [ Danthonia. 
tips usually slightly pubescent; spikelets erect, straw-coloured, 
about 9 lin. long; florets about 5, rather close, uppermost reduced ; 
rhachilla Dg oa equal, lanceolate, acutely acuminate, 
giatiictictin. iiaetoats « awn 56 lin. ong kneed ‘at 1 way Up, 
very loosely twisted, broad, dark below “the bend ; callus short, 
bearded ;_ pales oblong, almost 3 lin. long, keels densely and rigidly 
ciliolate ; lodicules obovate, long ciliate; grain oblong, almost 
Tt im. hs Chetobromus stricta, var. B, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr, 342. 
RN Recion: Little Namaqualand; Kamies Bergen, between Pedros 
Kloof a Lily Fontein, 3000-4000 ft., Dré. 
Drége indicates C. stricta, var also from Modderfonteins Berg (Little 
Namaqualand, the a ae Range Cities Div.), but the latter locality is 
extremely doubtful. 
12. D. stricta (Schrad. in Schult. Mant. ii. 383) ; perennial, 
densely cespitose with numerous innovation shoots; culms erect, 
rarely ascending and geniculate, slender, 1-2 ft. high, glabrous, 
smooth, 1-—2-no ode d, uppermost 2 internodes very long, exserted ; 
leaves erowded at the base ; ; sheaths tight, striate, glabrous, bearded 
or F beanilecs at the mouth, lowest short, v ery firm, pers rsistent ; ligule 
and pubescent or puberulous; branches solitary, sparingly and 
alternately divided “ie near the base, like the Laer) and pedi- 
eels filiform, straight, c a emperte or angular, aeytans = pubescent, 
closely imbricate at first, at length rolling in and bei mre 
ovate-lanceolate, acute, decurrent, 1-11 lin. long, hyaline, scaberu- 
lous, almost wholly adnate to the fine side-bristles, these 
long ; awn 3-4) lin, long, kneed at or below the middle, a 
loosely twisted, broad, brown below; callus acute, villous ; 
oblong, 2i-22 lin. long, keels densely and rigidly ciliolate ; loicales 
obovate to cuneate, 3 lin., long ciliate; anthers 13-1} lin. long ; 
ovary glabrous ; styles. distinct, x tai Tein, Gram. ‘Su uppl. 39, | 
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