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glabrous or very sparingly hairy, few-nerved ; panicle very scanty, 
open or contracted; branches (pedicels) 2-nate, finely enters 
glabrous, smoo ae up to 4 lin. long; spikelets about 1 
ei greenish ; glumes delicately herbaceous ae green on the back 
it i 1 0 ro i 
. ‘ re 
149; Steud. Syn. Pl. iu: re i, 17 77; Dura id & Schinz, Consp. 
Afr. v. 910. "03 : 
rie Petérab. sér. 6, vi. ii. 392; Steud. 1c. 173; Durand & Schinz, 
Le. 829. 
Coast Recion: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, in shady, rocky places, 
3000 ft., 4» Dre ége/ and in marshy neds at the same altitude, Schlechter, 115! 
Pentaschistis juncifolia (Stapf). The synonym Danthonia 
Thunbergii, as there are two specimens so numbered in the Kew 
Herbarium, and it is not certain to which of the two plants Nees 
gave his name. 
25a. Pentaschistis patuliflora (Rendle in Journ. o 1899, 381) ; 
perennial, densely tufted ; eulms erect, simple, fascicled below wit 
numerous ashe innovation shoots -16 in. ee glabrous, 
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internode exserted and much longer than the rest; leaves mostly 
basal, glabrous except at the sometimes shortly bearded mouth of 
the sheath; sheaths tight, firm, lower persistent, striate; ligule a 
fringe of short hairs; blades filiform, wiry, mucronulate to subobtuse, 
up to 5 in. long, tightly ning poner or curled, smooth ; panicle 
ovate in outline, open, 2-21 in. long, up to 2 in, wide, erect ; branches 
2-nate, like the filiform axis oa the capillary branchlets minutely 
tabercled, dark purple, finely bearded at the axils, trichotomous 
from 3-5 lin. above the base, lowest branches up to 12 i 
aieimshe divisions and pedicels rather long, the latter usually quite 
smooth ; spikelets seattered, 2} lin. long, light brown, deep purple 
below ; ” glames acuminate, subhy aline, glabrous, smooth, keel 
minutely tubercled, upper slightly es gi valves linear-oblong, 
body 1-12 lin. long, glabrous or alm t 80; obes short, abe 
with a fine adnate bristle (2-1 lin. i from the inner side; aw 
4-5 lin. long, kneed just above the middle, twisted below ; ‘oie 
short, minutely bearded; panicles up to 12 lin. long, minutely 
2-toothed ; anthers 1 lin lon ong 
Coast Reeion: Caledon Div.; Genadendal, Schlechter, 10,286! 
Intermediate between P. Burchelli and P. angustifolia. 
35. Pentaschistis Thunbergii (Stapf). See note under P. junci- 
Solia above. 
