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Abyssinia, distribution of sorghum, description of varieties, etc 17-18 



Aethiops, use as a varietal name 46 



Africa, British East, distribution of sorghum, description of varieties, etc 16 



equatorial, distribution of sorghum, description of varieties, etc 16 



German East, distribution of sorghum, description of varieties, etc 16 



North, distribution of sorghum, description of varieties, etc 18-19 



sorghum for human food, center of cultivation 11 



South, distribution of sorghum, description of varieties, etc 13-16 



sorghums introduced into Europe 13, 28-29, 43 



United States 13-15, 30, 33 



tribes, cultivation of sorghums 12 



Ahmar, the brown-seeded durra of Egypt, description 19 



Albus, use as a specific name 44 



Alcohol, manufacture from sorghum, experiments 30 



Algeria. See Barbary States. 

 Amber sorgo. See Sorgo, Amber. 



America, Central, and West Indies, distribution of sorghum, description of va- 

 rieties, etc 31-32 



South, distribution of sorghum 31 



American Agriculturalist, distribution of Chinese sorgo seed 32 



Andropogon halepensis, distribution, description, etc 8-10 



not native to the New World 31 



occurrence in India 23 



wild sorghum, origin of cultivated sorghums 7, 8-9 



sorghum, classification of varieties 44-46 



var. ovulifer, abundance in Upper Guinea 17 



roxburghii, occurrence in Madagascar 16 



Upper Guinea 17 



shallu varieties of India included 22 



Arabia, white durra, early history 10 



the only sorghum found 20 



See also Asia, southwest. 



Arduini, use as a specific or varietal name 44, 46 



Arduino, Pietro, references 13, 27, 28-29, 38, 42, 43, 44 



sorghum species 42-AA 



Asia Minor. See Asia, southwest. 



southwest, Amber sorgo, introduction 21 



white durra, description 20-21, 28 



Australia, no native sorghums 26 



Authors, early, dates and names used for sorghums 36-41 



later, sorghum species 44 



Avicenna, reference 37, 39 



Barbary States, distribution of sorghum, description of varieties, etc 19-20 



Bauhin, Caspar, early author, date and names for sorghum 37 



references 27, 39^0, 42 



175 55 



