Danthonia. ] GRAMINEX (Stapf). 533 
pate Veld, at the Doorn River, near Moord Kuil, Drége. Mossel Bay Dit. 5 
rl hills on the east side of the Gauritz River, ea 6454! George Div 
Kloof, Ecklon. Humansdorp Div.; Karroo by the Gait toos River, Gill} , 
Viter hage Div.; by the Zw: ractooye River, Ecklon S Sane: 184! Zeyher, 4529! 
near Uitenhage, Burchell, 4236! Al r : 
MacOwan, 1303; King Williamstown Div. ; Amatola Mountains, Buchanan, 26! 
ar. 000 ft., 
Wer EGION: Little Namaqualand; near the mouth of the Or range 
River, ine ! between the Buffels River and Silver Fontein, 2000 ft., Drége! 
Var. 8 is perhaps nothing but a luxuriant state of D. curva. 
18. D. vi nen (Stapf); perennial, suffrutescent, with a 
woody much branched base and the stout basal branches closely 
covered with ‘ialorihate scales or remnants ot old sheaths; flowering 
cose or tumid, from very minutely puberulous (on the nerves) to 
almost glabrous, uppermost reaching or exceeding the base of the 
panicle; sheaths of the rigid slender innovation shoots tight, 
glaucous ; ligule a dense fringe of short hairs ; blades linear, tapering 
to an acute point, those of the culm leaves < 13 in. by 12 lin., flat 
or the tips involute, finely striate, very minutely and densely 
carious, seaicilone 6—7-nerved, lower somewhat shorter; valves 
the base of the ap or ary beyond, the second or third row 
ending in a tuft o f long hairs; lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute or 
mucronate acuninate, 1- lz lin. ” long, paride tips ci iliolate ; ; 
callus very ‘slend der, pungent, villous ; piles linear-oblong, 1} lin. 
odicules cuneate, glabrous, fleshy, small ; 
anthers ] lin ee a ar glabrous ; styles slender, almost as long as 
the slender dens stigm 
Pn NTRAL Re@ion: Carnarvon Div.; at Buffels Bout, Burchell, 1607! ! Prieska 
3 between Modder Fontein and Kekams Poort, Burchell, 1612/6! 
Teste are very like those of D. glauca, but they are slightly larger and 
