818 



high, which covers vast areas" of plain and hillside at altitude* 

 varying from 2000-6000 ft. above sea level; thrives best in a 

 well drained heavy black loanf in the Transvaal (Burtt-Davy^ 



Hef. — '' Rooi-Grass {Anthistiria imberbis) in *' Native Forage 

 Plants/' Burtt-Davy Transvaal Agric. Jonrn. iii. Jan. 1905^ 



pp. 287-288, '' Themeda Forskallii var. mollis shnaj' ixk 



** Investigations of Materials . Suggested for the Manufacture of 

 Paper '* Bull. Imp. Inst/xvii. 1919, pp. 145-146. 



DiGITARIA, Hall. 



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Digitaria acuminatissima, 8tapf\ Fh Trop. Afr 



Vernac. name.— Makari? (Hausa, Dalziel). 

 Abinsi, N. Nigeria and in French Sudan. 



Kew) 



Annual; culms erect, over 2 ft. high; a grass cultivated in 

 some districts with a small grain [hnear-oblong, plano-convex: 

 (Stapf, I.e.)] hke '* Acha " — D, exilis, Stapf (Dalziel, Hausa Bot. 

 Voc. p. 74 — " Makari," Digitaria sp.), 



Digitaria debilis, Willd. ; FL Trop. Afr. IX. p. 464. 



/ZZ.— Figari & De Notaris, Mem. Ac, Torin, xiv. (1853) t. 25 

 (i). variabilis) ; t. 24 (D. decipiens) ; Wood, Natal PI. v. t. 469. 



Vernac. name. — Harikia or Harkiya (Katagum, Dalziel), — 

 Finger Grass (Dalziel), 



Katagum, Sokoto, Abinsi in N. Nigeria; Lagos in S. Nigeria 

 and in Kordofan (Nile Land), Angola, Portuguese East Africa,. 

 Nyasaland, Natal, and Mediterranean region — Algeria, South 



-^ 



Italy, Portugal, etc. 



Katagu 



Annual, culms 1-2 ft. ; 



1^2 ft. high 



(Dalziel, Hausa Bot. Voc. p. 48) found in meadows, Sokoto 



Afr 



Kew) ; cultivated in Native Gardens, Natal 



Digitaria exilis, Stapf; Fl. Trop. Afr. IX. p. 470. [Paspahim 



exile, Kippist 

 Mission au Sf 



ifl^ 



III. —Ann. rinst. Col. Marseille, ix. 1902, t. 8 {Paspalum 

 longiflorum) ; Kew Bull. 1915, p. 385 ; Hook, Ic. PI. t. 3068. 



Vernac. names. — Acha (Hausa, Dalziel, Lamb, Ellioity 

 Dudgeon) ; Intaya (Hausa, Dalziel) ; Fundi (Sierra Leone, Schon, 

 Clarke, Stapf); Fonio (Senegal & Upper Niger, Dumas)- 

 Foundounie (French Guinea, DybousU) ; Fonio (Bambara, French. 

 Sudan, Chevalier, Pobeguin, Stapf); Fundengi or Fundingi,. 

 Fundi (Sierra Leone, Thomas).~B.nngTy Rice of Sierra Leone. 



Zaria, Nassarawa .. in Nigeria, and also known from Sierra 

 Leone, French Guinea and Togoland. 



A small grass cultivated as a cereal in several Hausa Provinces 

 in Bomu and by many Pagan tribes (Dalziel, Hausa Bot. Voo. 



