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high, much grown in India as a food plant ; the grains, CASE 

 though liable to act as a narcotic poison, are boiled and eaten 87. 

 in the same way as rice, or ground into meal and used for 

 puddings. 



Note samples of Fundi, Fundungi, or Hungry Rick {Pas' 

 palum exile, Kipp.), from Gambia where, as also in Sierra 

 Leone and other places on the West Coast, it is largely useki as 

 food. 



I Observe-halter made of Wire Grass {Paspahimjlliforme, 

 Sw.), from Jamaica, and samples of Cut Hand Grass {P. 

 nrgotmn^ L.) and rope made from tlie same from Antigua. 



Also broom made of the flowering panicles of Panicum 

 acariferum Trin., much used for sweeping houses throughout 

 the North Circars. , , 



No. 163. China or Indian MiiXet (A imliaceumj L.). 

 An erect annual, about 2 feet high, native probably of Egypt 

 or Arabia, and introduced at a very early period into India, 

 where it is now largely grown as a food crop, being eaten 

 either boiled with milk and sugar, or used in curries, or parched 

 in hot sand. Numerous varieties are exhibited from different 

 parts of India, as well as from China, Japan, and Persia. 



No. 164. Sanwa Millet (P.frumentaceum, Roxb.). This 

 is an erect grass, growing sometimes to a height of 4 feet. It 

 is cultivated in India as a food plant, but does not take a very 

 high place. It is a very quick-growing plant, the harvest fol- 

 lowing within six weeks of the sowing. 



On the bottom shelf observe seeds of the Guinea Grass 

 {P. maximum^ Jacq.), one of the best fodder grasses of the 

 tropics. A broom made from the fruiting spikes of this grass 

 from Seychelles, where it is known as Fataque Grass, is also 

 shown ; also Grinding Stone, Metate or Muller, from 

 Humboldt Lake, Nevada, where it is used for grinding grass, 

 chenopodium, or sunflower seeds. 



No. 165. Kutki or liiTTLE MiLMT (P. m27/ar^, Lam.). CASE 



An annual grass, 2 to 3 feet high, native of India, where it is 88. 

 also cultivated as an article of food, and the straw is eaten by 

 cattle. 



No. 166. Shama Millet {^P. colouum, L.). A common 

 tropical and sub-tropical grass, growing from 2 to 3 feet high, 

 cultivated in India both a» a food arid; fodder plant. 



