DESCRIPTION OF THE SORGHUMS 



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doubtless been grown at an earlier period, but had disap- 

 peared from cultivation. 



321. Botanical Description. The various types of culti- 

 vated sorghums are all grouped by botanists under the head 



Fig. 85. Sheaves of grain sorghums: 1, Red kafir; 2, Shallu; 3, Black hull ka^i ; 

 4, White durra; 5, Brown kowliang; 6, Yellow milo; 7, Dwarf milo. 



of Andropogon halepensis. This original type is still found 

 quite generally in the warmer portions of the globe. In 

 general, the sorghums arc hirgc annual grasses with tall, 

 pithy stalks, growing from 1 to 10 fret high, and bearing the 



