Danthonia. } GRAMINEH (Stapf), 53d 
from the sinus, densely hairy up to the middle on the back and 
ciliate along the margins to ¢ the way up, otherwise glabrous, 
minute, ciliate ; anthers oblong-linear, +-1 lin, long; grain ellipsoid, 
% lin. long. 
aaa REGION: Port Elizabeth Div.; near Port Elizabeth, E.S.0.4. Herb., 
21. D. decumbens (DC. Fl. Franc. iii. 33); perennial, tufted ; 
culms erect, slender, 1-2 ft. high, glabrous, smooth, about 2-no ded, 
upper internodes exserted ; leaves glabrous except for a more or less 
distinet beard at the mo uth of the sheaths, or scantily beset with 
very fine stiff es ; soon tight, striate, lower persistent ; ligule a 
fringe of short hairs : ; blades linear, acute, 8-8 in. by 1-14 lin., flat 
or involute, striate, scaberulous towards the tip and along t the 
margins ; panicle usually reduced to a raceme or the lowest branches 
2-3-spieu ulate, often scanty, linear, 1-2 in. long; rhachis and 
long, greenish or tinged with purple; florets epg ‘imbrieate, 
5-7, very close, uppermost rudimentary; glum olate in 
protile, acute, scarious, often tinged with purple on the sides, smooth 
glabrous, sub-5- to sub-7-nerved in the aye part, nerves joining and 
connected by a few transverse veins; ves oblon 
minutely 2-toothed, mucronulate from er sinus, broadly rounded on 
the back, 3 lin. long, rather firm, tips often purplish, otherwise light 
green with a distinct or obseure Gig eer fringe of short hairs 
minutely bearded; pales broad alliptic- -obloug, 24 lin. long, flaps 
narrow, keels slightly winged, densely and rigidly ciliolate ; ; lodicules 
0; anthers ellipsoid, =3,-2 lin. long; ovary glabrous ; styles short, 
distinct, whe nag very delicate ; grain strongly dorsally comeeeer 
ellipsoid, 11 gta as Trin. Gram. Gen. 67, and in cad 
Pétersb. sér. " i. 67; Kunth, Eatin. i, 311; "Su yppl. 265, t. sith. 
fig. 2. Festuca decumbens, Linn. Sp. Pl. 75; Fl. Dan. t. 162; 
Leers, Fl. Herborn. 34, t. vii. Fg. 5. Sie gr miner itn Beraht. 
4. chia sel 
rigida, 
Wie ea ‘im. Fl. Werthem. 117. Bromus decumbens, ‘Koel. Deser. 
242. Triodia a Beauv. Agrost. 179, t. xv. fig. 9; 
it Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 249 ; nd & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v 87. 
Coast Region: King inion di Div. ; Amatola Mountains, Buchanan, 49! 
A native of Europe and North Africa ; elsewhere introduced. 
Imperfectly known. species. 
20. D. wnlyeins (Roem, & Schult. Syst. ii. 691; Kunth, Enum. i. 
