218 SELECT PLANTS FOR INDUSTRIAL CULTURE 



Paspalum ciliatmn, Humboldt. 



Tropical South America. A perennial and lauded cereal grass. 



Paspalum dilatation, Poiret. 



Extra-tropical South America. Perennial, of excellent qua- 

 lity for fodder. Mr. Bacchus found it hardy in Victoria 

 up to a height of 2,000 feet. It grew in New South Wales 

 after drought was followed by heavy rains 4| feet in little 

 more than two months. It is closely allied to the Mexican P. 

 virgatum, L. Introduced into Australia like many other 

 fodder grasses by the writer. 



Paspalum distichum, Burmann. 



From India to South-Eastern Australia. The Silt Grass. 

 A creeping swamp-grass, forming extensive cushions. It 

 keeps beautifully green throughout the year, affords a suffi- 

 ciently tender blade for feed, and is exquisitely adapted to cover 

 silt or bare slopes on banks of ponds or rivers, where it grows 

 grandly ; moderate submersion does not destroy it, but frost 

 injures it ; it thrives well also on salt marshes. 



Paspalum notafcum, Fluegge.* 



Brazil and Argentina. This is one of the best of fodder 

 grasses there, forming a dense, soft, carpet-like sward on 

 meadows, and becoming particularly luxuriant and nutritious 

 on somewhat saline soil (Lorentz) . 



Paspalum scrobiculatum, Linne. 



Through the tropics of the eastern hemisphere widely dis- 

 persed, extending to South-East Australia. A valuable pas- 

 ture grass. A superior variety is cultivated in India for 

 a grain crop. This grass furnishes a good ingredient to hay. 

 The stem sometimes attains a height of 8 feet. Rosen- 

 thai pronounces it pernicious, perhaps when long and ex- 

 clusive use is made of this grass, under which circumstances 

 the Kye Grass will also become injurious. 



Paspalum stoloniferum, Bose. 



Central America. A fodder grass of considerable value. 



Passiflora alata, Aiton. 



Peru and Brazil. This Passion Flower and all the following 

 (and probably other species) furnish Granadilla fruits. 



