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but were not much grown until ten years afterwards. 

 They differ from other grain sorghums in having the stems 

 quite sweet, being intermediate in this respect between the 

 sweet sorghums and the pithy-stemmed sorghums. They 

 are characterized by stout, short-jointed stems, numerous 

 (12-18) broad, rather stiff leaves, and especially by the 

 dense, erect, cylindrical or oblong heads. The grains are 

 oval, half covered by the short glumes. 



The most important variety is Blackhull kafir with 

 heads 10 to 14 inches long, and nearly white grains with 

 black glumes. Less important is Red kafir with longer, 

 more slender heads, 12 to 18 inches long and dark red grains 

 with yellowish to dark gray glumes. Pink kafir recently 

 introduced from South Africa, with pink grains, is otherwise 

 intermediate between the Blackhull and the Red varieties. 

 White kafir with white glumes and grains is the earliest 

 variety of kafir, but its heads often remain inclosed in the 

 upper sheath. 



Feterita. Feterita or Sudan durra is an erect-headed 

 durra introduced in 1906. It is much cultivated in Sudan 

 in the region about Khartum. Feterita has rather slender 

 stems, 5 to 7 feet high, slightly juicy and sweet and in- 

 clined to' produce branches ; heads erect, cylindrical, 

 dense but not so compact as milo ; grains bluish white, 

 subglobose, much larger than those of milo or kafir ; glumes 

 black, shiny, densely hirsute on margins only half inclos- 

 ing the seeds ; early, maturing about one week before 

 milo. 



Milo. Milo is also called milo maize and in northern 

 Texas is often known simply as maize. It was first grown 

 in South Carolina or Georgia between 1880 and 1885. 

 With scarcely a doubt it came from Africa, but nothing 

 exactly like it has since been obtained from that con- 



