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Digitaria Lecardii, Stapf] Fl. Trop. Afr. IX. p. 450. 



Nupe (Barter, Nos. 1358 & 1370, Herb. Kew), Yola (Dalziel, 

 No. 274, 1909, Herb. Kew), French Soudan. 



A good fodder-grass (Lecard, I.e.) 2| ft. high and upwards; 

 common in the bush, Yola (Dalziel, No. 274, Herb. Kew). 



An annual, 3-4 ft. high, in cultivated ground and open 

 plains, Nupe (Barter I.e.). The grain is tiny, only ^ hn. by 

 \ lin., white, elliptic -oblong, plano-convex (FL Trop. Afr. I.e.). 



Digitaria longiflora, Pers.\ Fl. Trop. Afr. IX. p. 469. 



long ill 



[Paspalum longifl 



III. _ , ., ^_ 



Vernac. name. — Entupu (River Nyasa, Allen). 



Lagos, Opobo, in S. Nigeria and also known from Sierra 

 Leone, French Guinea, French Congo, Belgian Congo, Gaboon, 

 Angola, Somaliland, Uganda, German East Africa (Tanganyika 

 Territory), S. Africa, Madagascar, Mascarene Islands, India 

 and Malaya. 



A pasture plant; an excellent lawn grass at Peradeniya 

 and said to form a large proprtion of the swards about Colombo, 

 creeping close to the ground and helping to bind the soil 

 (Macmillan, Roy. Bot. Gardens, Ceylon, Circ. No. 1, Sept. 1911, 

 p. 14 — Paspalum longiflorum). 



A perennial ; culms in fascicles arising from a prostrate rooting 

 base (Fl. Trop. Afr. I.e.); stems very slender; |-1 ft. high, 

 from a wide creeping rhizome (Baker, Fl, Mauritius, p. 431 

 Paspalum longiflorum) . 



Digitaria un^lmnis, Stapf ; Fl. Trop. Afr. IX. p. 474. 



[Panicum unigluw^e^ A. Rich. Tent. FL Abyssinia, ii. p. 370.] 



Nile Land — ^including Abyssinia, Eritrea, Uganda, British 



East Africa (Kenya Colony )^n Nyasaland and Rhodesia. 

 A perennial culms 2-4 ft. high. 

 Var. major, Stapf, I.e. p. 476 [D. diagonaliSy Rendle, Cat. 



Welw. Afr. PI. ii. p. 163 : Panicum uniglume, Jardin, Herbor. 



p. 7.] 



Lagos (MacGregor, No. 208, Herb. Kew) ; Cameroons, French 

 Equatorial Africa, Gaboon, Belgian Congo, Angola, and Nyasa- 

 land. 



Culms up to 10 ft. high. 



Brachiaria, Gris. 



Brachiaria distichophylla, Stapf \ Fl. Trop. Mv. IX. p. 557. 



Vernac. naynes. — Funfure, Sirilinyaxa (Sierra Leone, Thomas). 



Lagos, Opobo, Ebute Metta in S. Nigeria; Lokoja, Nupe, 

 Sokoto, Niger and Benue region in N. Nigeria ; also known from 

 Senegambia, Gold Coast, Belgian Congo, Angola, French Guinea. 



An excellent pasture grass; the ordinary fodder for Hippo- 

 potami all the year round (Lecard, Herb, Kew). 



Annual, culms slender, ^1| ft. high, forming dense carpets, 

 Segou, French Guinea (Lecard, Herb. Kew) found in shady 



