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name " Spear Grass " (FL Trop. Afr. I.e. p. 413); in Somaliland 

 it " causes much trouble to ponies, the spears sticking in their 

 mouths *' (Appleton, Kew Bull. 1907, p, 211). 



Leaves, " half-stuff '* (yield 50 per cent.) and paper pulp 

 ^yield^bleached, 25 per cent.) were presented to the Kew 

 Museum in 1882 by Mr. Thomas Routledge and some further 

 fexperiments have been made in India recently, for particulars 

 ssee the paper by Raitt, quoted under Saccharum spontaneum. 



A perennial up to 3 ft. or so in height, and judging by the 

 "wide distribution not very choice as to soil. 



Themeda, Forsk. 



Themeda quadrivalvis, 0, Kuntze; Fl Trop. Afr. IX. p. 420. 



III. — Gaertner, Fruct. Sem, PI. ii. t. 175 {Anihistiria ciliata)] 

 iam. Encycl. t. 841, f. 1 {A. ciliata); Beauvois, Agrost, t. 23, 

 f. 7 {A. ciliata) ; Duthie, Fodd-Grass. N. India, t. 61 {A. scandens) 



Vernac. names. — ^Musel (India, Watt). The Kangaroo Grass, 

 of Austraha (Watt). 



Native of India, known in Africa from the Belgian Congo 

 :and probably more widely spread. 



Used as fodder in India, where it is said to be one of the 

 most useful and in Australia it is mnnh valnfid a.s nnp of thp. 



(Watt 



Anthistiria ciliata, Linn.). 



Themeda triandra, Forsh, ; Fl. Trop. Afr. IX. p. 416. 



IlL — -Wood, Natal PI. ii. t. 133 {Anthistiria imberbis); Transv. 

 Agric. Journ. iii. Jan. 1905, t. 52 {Anthistiria imberbis); Desf. 

 Fl. Atlant. ii. t. 254 {A. glauca). 



Vernac^ Thames .—Hooi (South Africa, Burtt-Davy, Stapf) ; 



Wood) 



Upper Guinea 



Africa 



widely 



Africa. Also in India, Malaya 



Austraha (Kew Bull. 1907, p. 212). 



A valuable fodder grass, said to be one of the most useful 

 fodder grasses of the veldt as well as one of the commonest ; it is 

 ^ good hay grass and liked by stock of all kinds ; but it should 

 be cut before the seed heads turn brown, Transvaal (Kew Bull. 

 1911, p. 159 — Themeda Forshalii^ Hack — Anthistiria imberbis, 

 Ketz.); one of the most useful grasses for all kinds of stock in 

 :spring and summer, gets very dry in winter, Natal (Wood, I.e.). 



A variety from South Africa has been found to yield about 

 the same quantity and quality of pulp as " Tambookie " 

 "{Andropogon) ; but the nodes are harder and a disadvantage on 

 a commercial scale for export and it was suggested to confine its 

 use as a paper-making material to South Africa (Bull. Imp. 

 Inst, seq.). 



A perennial 1|— 4 ft. high; 1-3 ft. densely tufted, hill tops 

 and upland slopes, Natal (I.e.); a tufted perennial about 3 ft. 



