767 



Nupe, Lago3, Yola, Zungem, Cross River, Cameroons, and 

 in general throughout Tropical Africa and the Tropica of the 

 Old World. 



Rliizomes eat^n raw or roasted, N. Nigeria (Exhibit, Imp. 

 Insy ; cultivated at Lokoja (Elhott, Herb. Kew). 



Yola (Dalziel, Herb. Kew) ; common 



Mauritius 



Man 



p. 415) ; and apparently more or less of a common weed. 



GRAMINEAE. 



EucHLAENA, Schrad. 



r -^ 



Euchlaena mexicana 



Linn 



p. 107J. 



An annual plant, 6-8 ft. high, sometimes up to 16 ft. Stems 

 i in. thick or more at the base. 



broad. 



Leaves 



Ill.~~Bot. Mag. t. 6414; Engler, Pflan Ost. Afr. B. p. 79;. 



U.S. Dept. Agric. Rep. 1887, t. 1; Journ, Dept. Agric. W. 



Austraha, ix. May 1904, p. 320; Transv. Agric. Journ. iii. 



1904^05, t. 84; Bull. Agric. Congo Beige, v. 1914, p. 667;, 



Hitchcock, Grasses, U.S. Dept. Agric. Bull. No. 772, 1920 

 p. 284, f. 171. 



Teosinte, Buffalo Grass. 



Native of Mexico and Guatemala. Grown at Botanic Station,. 

 Lagos, 1892, and vndely distributed form Kew about 40 years 

 ago to other parts of Tropical Africa, to the West Indies, "East 

 Indies and Austraha. Cultivated in the Southern United States, 

 and in Central America. 



An important fodder plant, may be used either as green 

 feed or as ensilage. - - 



Propagated from seed ; 4|-5 lb. to the acre, sown broadcast, 



15 kg. per hectare broadcast and 25 kg. if sown in rows are 



recommended in Tucuman (Bull. Bur. Agric. Inst. Rome, li. 



1911, p. 2034)— and thinned out 10-12 ft. apart, the plants 



ig dense tufts. A warm chmate, average rainfall and 

 good loamy soil are essential to satisfactory growth. 



For feeding, the grass should be cut. young, and although an 

 annual plant — comes to maturity in from 9-10 months (Watt) 

 from the time of sowing — 3 cuttings may be made in the course 

 of a 4 months' season. Weeding, and in the case of rows, 

 banldng up, is all that is needed. Mowing is begun before 

 flowering, when the height . scarcely exceeds one metre, and is 

 continued till the end of the flowering period..- The yield is 

 100 tons per hectare of green fodder— 89 per cent, of Avhich is 

 eaten by cattle, the lower woody part of the stalks being rejected 

 (Bull. Bur. Agric. Inst., Rome', I.e.). Five acres of this grass 

 sown at the Experinient Station farm, Kabete, Nairobi, was 



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