Danthonia. } GRAMINEX (Stapf). 537 
Sour Arrica: without precise locality, Ludwig. 
Hochstetter and Steudel place this plant near Danthonia lanata, Schrad. 
XXXVIII. CHATOBROMUS, Nees (partly). 
Spikelets laterally compressed, pedicelled, panicled, deciduous 
with the bearded or plumose upper part of the pedicel ; rhachilla 
tough or almost so above the glumes, readily Segiticalatl between 
the va lves. Florets 3-4, ¢, exceeded by the glumes 
7-9-nerved, slightly heteromorphous, lowest glabrous, with an 
obscure, glabrous callus, and usually also with a reduced awn or 
without bristles, following valves slightly larger or baile pubescent, 
deeply 2-lobed with a kneed awn from the sin us, a bristle from the 
phi aired blades more or ee flat, soft ; ager pyrimay: narrow 
Sometimes very meagre ; spikele wy deciduous wit th a a part of the pedicel and 
disarticulating between the valve 
Species 3, in South-western South Africa. 
Blades usually silky or silvery below from adpressed 
irs; spikelets 5-6 lin. — lowest valve suddenly 
contracted into a short brist 
Blades glabrous below; sp spikelets 6-8 lin. ‘long ; ; all the 
. (1) involucratus, 
Culms erect ; blades 2-5 i in, long ; spikelets sit lin. 
.. (2) dregeanus, 
m asom 
blades 6-10 in. long; spikelets oy lin. - long 
all the valves with side-bristles 
C. involucratus (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 344, exel. iar eA Rarer 
slende to long, 
singer smooth, sbapiancra: ae enn Bert oh aths 
. (3) Schraderi. 
acute 2-4 in. by 1-2 lin., soft, flat, or those of the innovation- 
shoots Alittem meats dens ely silky or silvery from adpresse ; ssed hair 
or glabreseent : ; panicle linear to linear-oblong, erect, 11-2 in. long ; 
Scaberulous, — i ate fro e base; pedicels unequal, 
deciduous part 1- in. long, bea below, scarcely exceeding 
ee rics light xeon! or greyish-green, - long ; 
