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a/s 



lower Mississipi Valley it has been found to gradually crowd out 

 Bermuda Grass. May be propagated like the Bermuda Grass 

 (see p. 856) by division of the 



856) by division of the rhizomes or from «eed sown at 

 the rate of 10 lb. an acre (Carrier, seq.). It has, however, been 

 found that there is little commercial seed on the market and 

 the grass is propagated by scattering small pieces of sod about 

 the ploughed field (Breakwell, seq.). Eurnishes grazing for one 

 cow to the acre for about 5 months each season and for one cow 

 to 2 acres for 3-4 months longer; close grazing being essential 

 to keeping the grass in good condition. In countries north of 

 Plorida " Japan Clover " {Lespedeza striata, Hook. & Arn.) is 

 recoQimended as a mixture (Carrier, seq.) and this might be 

 tried at the higher altitudes in Nigeria where the moisture 

 conditions are also satisfactory, or it is suggested some other 

 leguminous plant—" Uganda Clover " {Trifolium Johnsfoni, 

 Ohv.— See Kew Bull. 1899, p. 137 : 1919, p. 6), for instance, 

 in place of or in conjunction with the Lespedeza might be grown. 



■^e/. — " Carpet Grass {Paspalum compressum) ," Breakwell, in 

 Agric. Gazette, N.S. Wales, xxx. Sept. 2nd, 1919 (''The 



Paspalum Grasses") p. 634. Carpet Grass, Lyman Carrier, 



U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1030, 1920, pn. 1-12. 



Paspalum, Linn. 



Paspalum conjugatum. Berg. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. IX. p. 569. 

 ///.— Pahsot de Beauvois, Fl. Oware & Benin, ii. t. 92, f. 2 



tmanma 



(P. ciliatum); Trinius, Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 102; 

 xxiv. 1913, t. 7. 



Vernac. wames.— Yane or Yard (Sierra Leone, Thomas) .Sonr 

 Grass (Jamaica), Crab Grass (Montserrat), Green Grass (Singa- 

 pore), Hilo Grass (Hall, Hawaii, U.S. Dept. Agric, Bull. No. 48, 

 1904, p. 18). 



Lagos, Abeokuta, Ndoni, Opobo, Old Calabar in Nigeria 

 and widely spread in Upper and Lower Guinea; common in 

 the hotter parts of America from the Gulf States southwards and 

 found also in the Indo-Malayan region and Polynesia. 



A good fodder grass for cattle and horses, valued in Ceylon, 

 Singapore, Jamaica — where " it forms the excellent ' low-bite ' 

 pastures in the warmer parts of the island " (Kew Bull. 1894, 

 p. 386); " makes excellent cattle-food " in Borneo (Beccari, Wand! 

 Gt. Forests, Borneo, p. 192); but on the other hand it has been 

 stated that " some of the wild grasses, notably ' carabo ' or 

 bitter grass {Paspalum conjugatum\ are usually refused by tlie 

 horses (Piper, " Notes on Forage Plants in Java and India " • 

 Phillipine Agric. Rev. 1912, p. 428). 



This grass was used by the writer for making lawns at Old 

 Calabar (1898); plants were colJected from the road-sides 

 -where the native cattle had kept them low by grazing during 



