532 GRAMINE® (Stapf). [ Danthonia. 
equal, ae in profile, acute to ap Sa 
a ; valv 
broadly ies in profile, body 3—$ lin. long. with a transverse fringe 
of tufts of hairs below the insertion of the awn and several sub- 
marginal tufts; lobes oblong, very obtuse, 12 lin. long, each with 
3 distinct parallel nerves, hyaline, ciliate; awn 1-1} lin. long; 
slightly twisted and bent below the middle ; ; callus short, shortly 
hairy ; pales oblong, truncate, % lin. long, keels scaberulous ; lodicules 
fleshy, broad, cuneate, ciliolate ; anthers 1 lin. long or almost 80; 
ovary glabrous; styles Se eet Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum, i. 242; 
Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fi v. 854. 
Sete’ ike without ed x0 locality, Th ; 
N Reeton: Li wen maqualand ; rena Buffels (Kousies) River 
and Silver vais, 2000 ft., 
17. D. curva (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 328); perennial, tufted, often 
BOR prous; poe very slender, often asc ack from a lecumbent 
po paar My iiels more or less i ctis ovate to 
cylindric, usually lobed or interrupted, } to more than 2 in. long; 
rhachis scaberulous, angular; branches ‘solitary, longest not more 
than 4 the length of the panicle, lower undivided for 1-3 lin. % 
like the rest closely divided from the base, branchlets contracted, 
ecun 
uppermost quite rudimentary; rhachilla glabrous, ae short ; 
glumes equal or subequal, broad lanceolate, acute, herbaceous on the 
back, glosely 3-5-nerved, keels scabrid ; valves oblong in profile, 
y 2—4 lin. long, 9- nerved, hairy along ‘thie margins to beyond the 
middle or on the back almost to the base of the awn, hairs in dense 
or loose (usually interrupted) rows between the nerves, often ending 
in tufts of short hairs; lobes ovate- toca mae acuiine 
about $ lin. long, adnate for = their e at_len 
usually free ; awn at first straight or slightly ne ith cain a 
? . 
ais distinct, slender, sas Syn. Pl. Glum, i. 242; Dura and 4 
Schinz, Consp. Fil. Afr. 848. D. Bachmannt, Hack. in Bul 
Herb. Boiss. iii. 385. 
Var. B, —— (Stapf) ; — to 1 ft. long by 14 lin. ; panicle to more oer 
3 in. long, lower and intermediate branches 12 7 Mag 0 divided fro m +49 
ubove the ety obliquel y erect or plier nodding ; apikeloes 24-3 lin. rae 
SourH Arrica: without precise locality, Boivin 
Coast ReGIon: Malmesbury Div. ; a near a enn ecg 
1018! Cape Div.; Devils Mounta a Verreaux ! Wore Div. ; 
