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many of the native dialects of Africa. aie following is a list, 
compiled from publications and saa wie 
Togo: Ada; ‘ Elephanten grass’ of panes aslo: 
Southern Nigeria: Esun funfun (Dodd); Esun (Millen) ; Esu: 
pupu (MacGrego e } 
osongo, Libwakenike (De Giorgi). Territory of Rusisi Kivu: 
Matete eh ee Ss De Wildeman); Baraka: Mabingobingo 
). 
: Mariango, Marianga, Marianko (Welwitsch, Buchner 
Penge), Mditings (Welwitsch), Malenge-lenge, Malanga (quoted 
by Leeke). 
Usand, Madi: Maweengo-weengo (Grant), 
Usambara : Mbuhu, N ae (Holst). 
Rhodesia, Gutu: Zinyamunga (2 & marabagunda,* dumba- 
munga (Napier), miraba ihe (Mundy). 
Uses. Of the stems of the grass Grantt reports :—* The tall 
fences surrounding the residences of the Waganda King and people 
are of this useful reed ; the interiors of all Waganda houses are 
walled into compartments by it. A strip from it is so sharp that it’ 
is used for cutting up meat, 6 also cutting into fragments the 
victims of the King of Ugand 
The first mention of P. purpureum as a fodder grass is in Schinz, 
Plantae oe (1905), where the grass is stated to be 
good fodder for cattle. The note refers to an observation by 
Menyharth, a Has arian missionary who from 1889 = Sie “4 
about 1894 collected in the neighbourhood of Boruma, n 
the Zambesi in the Eastern part of North-west Rhodedia.” ‘A remark 
to the same effect, “ Species bovibus 
by Leeke§ (1907) rests on the authority of Herr Deistel, Govern- 
' ment Gardener in the Cameroons, and Pilger in Engler, "Pflanzen- 
welt Afrika | (1908) describes it as one of the best fodder see 
* M’ramba munga in the report, reproduced on p. 315 
+ Quoted by gin, in Bot. Speke & Grant Exped. in Trans. Linn. S0., 
vol. 
° tn Bebiac. = Wiss. Wien, vol. Ixxviii, p. 400. 
. u. Heimat. d. Nege rhirse, ee 48, 
In Teele. Phanstawelt Africas, vol. ii, p. 145. 
| ia Feet Agric Journ. vol. vii, p. t 
**® See Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xl, p. 231, 
