820 



Vernac. names. — Karani, Darumba or Daranibuwa (Hausa, 

 Sokoto, Dalziel) ; Ba-Fillatani (Hausa, Dalziel — a name also 

 applied because of the pale colour of the grass, and given to other 

 plants for the same reason, Hausa Bot. Voc. p, 57). 



_ , ^ w . > known from 



Senegal, Sudan, British East Africa (Kenya Colony) and the 

 Belgian Congo. 



Grass used to make plaited armlets etc. Sokoto (Dalziel, 

 Herb. Kew). 



An annual, 1-4 ft. high, in cultivated ground, Nupe (Barter, 

 Herb. Kew), a common grain of waste fields etc. Sokoto (Dalziel, 

 Herb. Kew). 



I 



Digitaria horizontalis, Willd. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. IX. p. 436. 

 III.— Wood, Natal PL ii. t. 140. 



Vernac. names. — Eran (Lagos, Dawodu) ; Ilu egugo egu 

 (Aguku, S. Nigeria, Thomas) ; Okebuni, Ndewe (Sierra Leone, 

 Thomas ) . 



Lagos, Old Calabar, Opobo, Nupe, Abinsi, Aquku District 

 Benue Kiver, Lokoja, etc. in Nigeria and widely spread in 

 Tropical Africa — Sierra Leone to the Cameroons in the West; 

 Nubia to Somaliland and British East Africa (Kenya Colony) 

 in the Nile region; Gaboon to Angola in Lower Guinea and 

 German East Africa (Tanganyika Territory) to Nyasaland, 

 Portuguese Territory, Rhodesia and Gazaland in the Mozambique 

 District; also in Natal, Mascarene Islands, Tropical America, 

 India and Malaya. 



A grass much used for feeding horses, Lagos (Dawodu, Herb. 

 Kew) ; the main local fodder for cattle, Lagos (Governor, Lagos 

 to Sec. of State, letter dated Jan. 23rd 1900 : Col. Office to 

 Director Kew, Feb. 28th, 1900); considered a good feeding 



p. 212). 



Kew 



An annual, varying in height from l-several ft.; a free 



growing 



villages 



Digitaria Iburua, Stapf; Fl. Trop. Afr. IX. p. 455. 



Ill— Kew Bull. 1915, p. 382 ; Hooker, Ic. PI. t. 3069. 



Vernac. names. — Iburu, Iboni or Aburu (Hausa, Lamb, 

 Dalziel, Dudgeon). 



Zaria and Hausaland in general. 



A cereal cultivated for food; the grain is very small — over 

 40,000 to the ounce ; less than 1 Hn. long. 



An annual, 18 in. oi so high; sown in rows as a field crop, 

 Zaria (Lamb, No. 54, Herb. Kew); much planted m Zaria and 

 other districts (Dalziel, Hausa Bot. Voc. p. 48) ; grown in Northern 

 Nigeria in the fields along with millet (Dudgeon, Agric. & For 

 Prod. W. Africa, p. 149.) 



i?e/.— "Iburu and Fundi, Two Cereals of Upper Guinea" 

 Stapf, in Kew Bull. 1915. pp. 381-383. 



