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25. C. tribuloides, L. (Herrick.) 



26. Tricholaena leucophaea. 



27. Andropogon Schoenanthus, L. 



Lemon Grass, Citronella. India. Grows wild and cultivated, 

 yields essential oil used in perfumery. 



28. Anatherum macr urum, Gr. 

 Fox Tail Grass. 



29. Saccharum officinarum. L. 



Sugar Cane, cultivated, originally from Asia. See in this connec- 

 tion, " Remarks on the East India and other Canes imported into 

 the French Caribbean Islands, and lately introduced into the 

 Island of Antigua, by Sir John Laforey, Bart, in Edward's Hist. 

 of Brit. Col. in the W. I. Preface to 2nd Edit. p. 32. 



30. Zea Mais. L. 



Indian Corn, Maize. According to Edwards (Hist, of the West 

 Indies, I, p. 15), this name is derived from the word " Mahez," 

 applied by the aborigines of the West Indies to this plant. Cul- 

 tivated. America. 



31. Sorghum vulgare, Pers. 



Guinea Corn, cultivated ; from the old World. 



32. Uniola paniculata, L. {Swains.) 



Spike Grass. Common along sand beaches in the Bahamas, as 

 well as along southern coast of U. S. 



Grasses are valuable as food for cattle and for man. In the 

 Bahamas, Maize and Guinea Corn are much used, and also Sugar 

 Cane, though but little sugar is made, owing to the prohibition of the 

 manufacture of rum. The cane is of poor quality, short-jointed, fibrous 

 and deficient in sugar, and is used mainly au naturel as a sweetmeat. 

 Cane syrup is made in small quantity and used instead of molasses or 

 maple syrup. The true Bamboo (Bambusa) is grown in some gardens. 

 Arthrosty Helium and Chusquea, known as Wild Bamboo, are more or 

 less twining plants found in the bush. The lemon-grass, A ndropogon 

 Schoenanthus, is made into a cooling febrifuge. Cynodon Daietylon 

 is emollient and aperient. A troublesome grass, known as Bur- 

 Grass, grows abundantly, and in Andros and other islands, accord- 

 ing to Governor Blake, renders the raising of sheep or cattle impos- 

 sible, it having a very rough bur. 



