797 



^considered worthy of mention by the side of its annual comiter - 

 part Sorghum siidanensej with which 2:)lant it has at times been 

 confused. 



-Be/. — Johnson Grass : Report of Investigations made during 

 :the season of 1901, Ball, U.S. Dept. Agric, Bur. PI. Industry, 



Bull. No. 11, 1902, pp. 1-24. The Poisonous Action of Johnson 



^rass, Crawford, U.S. Dept, Agric. Bur. PI. Industry, Bull. 

 No. 90, part 4, 1906, pp. 1-6. '^Poisoning by Sorghum haJepense,'' 

 Kew Bull, 1914, pp, 229, 230,^'' Sorghum halepense,'' I.e. 1919, 



p. 24. " Johnson Grass {Andropogon halepensis) ,' ' in Forage 



Plants, Piper, pp. 244-247 (The Macmillan Co., New York, 

 1915) and see references under S. sitdanense. 



Sorghum laneeolatum, Stajyf; Fl. Trop. Afr. IX, p. 112, 



Vernac. names, — Dawar rafi, Dawar kada, Da war dorina 

 <Katagum, Hausa, Dalziel) ; one of several called Elephant 

 <jrrass {Dalziel, Hausa Bot. Voc, p. 24). 



Katagum in Nigeria, White Nile, Sudan. 



Annual ; slender, pithy steins, 10 ft. or so high, by rivers, 

 Xatagum (Dalziel, Herb. Kew). No uses found recorded, but 

 ^nentioned here because it appears to have been confused with 

 ^. halepense. 



Sorghum margaxitiferam, Stapf] Fl. Trop. Afr. IX. p. 125, 



Vernac, names, — Kende bile, Kende rouge, Kende blanc 

 f(Middle Niger, Dumas). 



" French Congo and probably Middle Niger (Stapf. I.e.). 

 Crrains small, red or white, valued for food. 

 An annual plant, cultivated along the JMiddle Niger (Dumas, 

 Agric, prat, pays chauds, v. 1905, pp. 459, 460). 



Sorghmn melaleucum, Stapf; Fl. Trop. Afr. IX. p. 134, 



Vernac. name, — Shelsheleih (Sudan, Stapf), 

 Sudan (sj^ecimen in Mus. Kew from Rubber Exhibition, 

 Xondon, 1914). 



Grain white, about the size of that of S, Durra or S. guineense. 



Sorglmm Eoxburghii, Stapf \ Fl. Trop. Afr. IX. p. 126. 



///. — '3iedley Wood, Natal PL ii. t. 120 (var. semiclaiisum, 

 Stapf); Ball, U.S. Dept. Agric. Bureau PI. Ind. Circ. 50, 1910^ 

 p. 5 (seed-heads). 



Vernac. names. — Shallu (India, Stapjf) ; Shallu (North America, 

 Btapf, Ball, Montgom ery, Piper) ; Mtama-Niope ( Zanzibar, 

 Stapf) ; Egyptian Wheat, Cahfornia Wheat, Mexican Wheat 

 ^United States, Bothgeb, Montgomery) ; Cahfornia Golden Sorghum, 

 i^gyptian Rice, Rice Corn (United States, Rothgeb), 



Native of India, also in Natal, British E. Africa, Nyasaland, 

 ^nd introduced to N. America. 



Gro%yn for the grain and to some extent as a forage plant; 

 cultivated as a winter crop — sown in October and harvested in 

 March in India (Watt, Comm. Prod. India, pp. 1033, 1036; 

 JVIontgomery, Corn Crox>s, p. 313), where there are several 

 cultural races known, two of which — var. semtclatisiim and var. 



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