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HISTORY AND DISTRIBUTION OF SORGHUM. 



in the size and color of the seeds and glumes. Some forms of the 

 Eoxburghii group are occasionally found in Natal, but are apparently 

 introduced from Madagascar, from the regions north of the Zambezi 



River, or from India. 



a b c d 



Fig. 3. — Heads of four kafir varieties, a, White kaflr ; b, Guinea kafir; c, blackhull kafir; 



d, red kafir. 



ORANGE RIVER COLONY. 



Our widely grown and valuable kafir varieties came from the 

 former Orange Free State about thirty years ago. From that first 

 importation three varieties resulted, the white, the blackhull, and the 

 red kafirs (fig. 3), of which only the last two are now cultivated in 



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