793 



with 



Hj 



the resultant loaf being described as well risen, L'ght, uniform 

 in colour, excellent in flavour, and superior to that of other 

 bread made from wheat, with the addition of rice, rye or potatoes. 

 The average weight of 100 seeds is 2-57 grams, the weight of the 

 bushel is 61-88 lb., and the flour is of excellent quahty — fine, 

 soft and smooth, colour white, inclining to pink. The com- 

 position is water, 8-45; nitrogenous matter, 12-98; fats, 3-3; 

 nitrogen free extract, 72-45; crude fibre, 1-03; ash, 1-71 per 

 cent. (Bull. Bur. Agric. Inst., Rome, seq. p. 983; from "La 



ur 



L'Agric. Col., ix. 1915, pp. 217-227). This variety was grown 



at Kew in 1914 — June to September, and there is in the Herba- 

 rium at Kew a specimen with a small head of ripe grains, 

 about 63 grains in all (the heads are very much larger in a 

 suitable climate), and it has been introduced to Arizona and 

 other parts of the Southern United States as a forage crop. 



Ref 



VinaD 



U.S. Dept. Agric, Bur. PI. Ind. Circ. No. 122, 1913, pp. 25-32 



ii 



Durra {Sorghum vulgare) as a Substitute for Wheat 



pp. 217-227; 



Caselli, in L'Agric. CoL, ix. April-May 1915, 



1915, pp. 983-984. 



Agr 



Sorghum cemuum. Host ; Fl. Trop. Air 

 III. 



Host 



iv, t. 3. 



Vernac. names, — Mazaggua, Masakuwa, Masakwa or Mazgua 

 (Bornu and Bagirmi, Stapf, Dalziel) ; Massakua or Mossoga 

 (Bornu, Koernicke) ; Maskwari (Fulani, N. Nigeria, Dalziel) ; 



(Gambia, Stapf 



Stapf) 



Durra eweige (Egj^t, Stapf) ; Durrah (Hadramaut, Arabia, 

 Lunt); Bechna ? (Algeria, Kearney & Means).— Dry Season 

 Corn. 



Bornu, N. Nigeria ; Cameroons, Gambia, Senegal, North 

 Africa — Egypt, Algeria, etc., Portugal. Asia Minor, N. India, etc. 



West 



A staple food grain in West Africa : sometimes eaten whole 

 after cooking, Adamawa and Bornu (Dalziel, Hausa Bot. Voc. 

 p. 23) and in all countries where commonlj^ grown. The white 

 Sorghum, " Bechna " of the Arabs, probably belongs here ; it 

 is much used by the better class of Kabyles in Algeria as a 

 substitute for wheat flour in making '' Couscous '* and bread 

 (Kearney & Means, U.S. Dept. Agric. Bur. PI. Ind. Bull. No, 80, 

 1905, p. 76). 



The " Maskwari '* crop in Yola is planted at the end of the 

 rains and reaped in February to April; planting is done httle 



hour 



in the slack season. 



5* 



threshed and 2206 lb. unthreshed 



