530 GRAMINER (Stapf). [ Danthonia. 
ovary yen ae distinct. Drege in Linnea, xx. 254; Steud. 
Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 243; Durand & Sehine, biagsan Fl. Afr. v. "849. 
SoutH AFRICA: without kee caged Boww 
Coast Reeion: Swellen ‘ves ridges along the lower ei 
of the Zonder Hinde i pur “tt. , Zeyher, 4550! Riversdale Div. ; 
the Zoetemelks River, Burchell, 6693 ! Uitenhage Div. ; grass-fields near ‘the 
Zwartkops River, Ecklon & Zeyher, 453! Alexandria Div.; near Addo, Ecklon! 
hit Albany ; vases 500-1000 — Drége. Albany Div. ; Howisous 
oort near oe town, Glas s, 7700 r Grahamstown, Burke ! Bothasberg 
Rane, aes ag seer ahaa 1313 ! capac Div.; Storm Bergen, 6000 ft., 
Oe nTRat ReGion: Somerset Di iv.; between the rag Range and Klein 
mesh Hoogte, 2000-2500 ft., Drage! Graaft Reinet Div. ; aps ain slopes 
r Graaff Reinet, 4000-6000 ft., Bolus, 672! Oude Bere, 3500 ft., Drége ! Albert 
Div. 5 ; rocks by the Stormberg Spr uit, 5000-5500 ft., Drege ! Wodehouse Div. ; 
Zuur Poort, Zeyher, 139! Aliwal North Div. ; rocky summit of the Witte 
Bergen, 7500 ft., Dréye. 
KALAHARI REGION : Orange Free State; Witte Bergen, near Harrismith, 
Buchanan, 
14. D. pumila (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 323); perennial, with few 
short ‘inns shoots; culms very slender, erect or ascending, 
2-4 in. long, greyish pubescent, at least in the upper ei 2- noded, 
internodes énelosed or upper 2 exserted; leaves mainly b basal, 
distichous in the innovation shoots ; shenthe finely puberulous, 
lower bearded at the mouth, closely pits eet very short, more of 
less coriaceous, at length glabrescent, upper very narrow and tight ; 
ligule a fringe of minute airs; blades Deals. HB obtuse or 
mucronulate, 3-] in, by 3 lin. when unfolded, very rigid, strongly 
raceme of about 5 spikelets, $-1 in. long ; rhachis and ver short 
5-6 ha florets 6- 7, ee rudimentary ; : rhachilla joints 
callus short with a beard on each side; pales elliptic-oblong, Vet 
ong, flaps scantily and minutely hairy, keels rigidly 
densely eiliolate ; lodicules fleshy, ee cuneate ; pe ] lin. 
long; grain elliptic, $ lin. long. a d. Syn. Pl. Glum. 1. 242; 
poten § Schinz, Cone, Fl. Afr. v 
ERN ReEGion: Little N th of the 
Prcheg River, below 600 ft., Samad ro pen ate 
15. D. purpurea (Beauv. Agrost. 160); perennial, very ae 
cespitose with numerous very short densely leafy innovation shoots 
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