534 GRAMINEH (Stapf). [ Danthonia. 
1-1 ft. long, finely greyish tomentose, 3-4-noded, intermediate 
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most very wide from a narrow base, embracing the base of the 
panicle ; ligule a dense fringe of short hairs; blades linear, acute, 
subpungent, 1-2 in. long, 2 lin. broad, loosely involute or almoyt 
and seabrid; branches erect, a few in fascicles, unequal, closely 
divided from the base, filiform and seabrid like the very short branch- 
lets and pedicels ; spikelets crowded, 31 lin. long, straw-coloured or 
lobes, the second and third row or all 3 outer rows ending with a 
fine tuft of hairs about as long as the lobes; lobes ovate-lanceolate, 
acute, 1 lin, long, scaberulous, tips ciliate or ciliolate; awn erect or 
slightly bent, 1-12 lin. long, with 1 or 2 loose twists below the 
12 lin. long, keels seabrid ; lodicules cuneate, glabrous, rather 
fleshy, small; anthers about 1 lin. ] re) : 
distinct, slender. Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 242; Durand J Schint, 
Uonsp. Fl. Afr. v. 850. 
Western Recion: Little Namaqualand; sandy hills near Kuigunjels, neat 
the mouth of the Orange River, 200 ft., Drége, 2536 ! 
0. D. inermis (Stapf); perennial (7); culms geniculate, very 
slender, about 1 ft, long, glabrous, smooth, 2-noded, internodes 
exserted; leaves glabrous; sheaths tight, lower very obscurely 
scaberulous, upper smooth; ligule a fringe of very fine hairs; 
ades fine, setaceously convolute, acute, 3-4 in. long, smooth j 
panicle contracted, linear, 1-22 in. long, subflexuous ; rhachis 
th below; branches solitary, 2-nate or a few in fascieles, 
lowest up to 1 in. long, divided from the base or nearly so, finely 
times tinged with purple on the sides, glabrous, scaberulous above, 
profile, broadly 
rounded on the back, 14 lin. long, shortly 2-toothed, mucronate 
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