827 



Paspalum scrobiculatum, Linn. var. Commersonii, 8tapf\ Fl. 



Trop. Afr. IX, p. 573. 



III. — Lam. EncycL t. 43, f. 1 (P. Commersonii)] Palisot de 

 Beauvois, Fl. Oware & Benin, ii. t. 85, f . 1 (P. Kora) ; Wildenow, 

 Hort. Berol. t. 74 (P. Kora); Duthie, Indig. Fodder Gr, N. 

 India, t. 21 (P. Kara) ; Wood, Natal PI. ii. t. 134. 



Vernac. names.- — Tumbin Jaki (Hausa, Dalziel) ; Ikbonta 

 (S. Nigeria, Thomas). 



Lagos, Nupe, Etoi River, Opobo, Abinsi etc. in Nigeria 

 and widely spread in Tropical Africa and throughout the Tropics 

 of the Old World, 



M 



Kew) 



donkej 



if fed on it too long, Yola (Dalziel, Kew Bull. 1910, p, 142); 

 a wild grass used in some districts as a cereal, a sort of " Hungry 

 Rice " or '' Bastard Millet " — unwholesome effects observed, 

 Hausaland (Dalziel, Hausa Bot. Voc. p. 97); may not infre- 

 quently be seen being ground Hke cultivated grain in riverside 

 markets of the Bashima and Batta tribes on the Benue (Dalziel, 

 Kew Bull. I.e.). 



A perennial 1-2 ft. high or more (FL Trop. Afr. I.e.). 



Paspalum scrobiculatum, Linn. var. polystachyum, Sta2yf; 



Afr 



III 



fi 



Opobo, Nun (Niger) River, Idu (New Calabar), Onitsha, 

 Lokoja, Burutu, Nupe, Abinsi in Nigeria. 



Culms 4 ft, or so high. 



The cultivated forms of Paspalum scrobiculaiumy Linn . 

 (P. s. var. frumentaceum, Stapf) usually described as annuals or 

 grown as annual plants (Watt, Church, Duthie; Kew Bull, seg.) 



Wales) or "Kodo Millet 



m 



and for hay — cattle and especially buffaloes eat the grass readilj 

 when it is young (Kew Bull. 1894, p. 386) 



more 



less poisonous to animals at the time of ripening. The grain la rgely 

 used as food in India is also at times very unwholesome " Kodra '* 

 poisoning frequently occurring (I.e.). P. scrobiculatum is also 

 said to constitute the only pasture in the Sonde district in the 

 Belgian Congo (Fl. Trop. Afr, I.e. p. 576) and it is probable t|iat 

 all the forms of this variable species might be used as fodder. 



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Paspalum vaginatum, Sw. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. IX. p. 570. 



7ZZ.— Gaertner, Fruct. Sem. Pi. ii. t. 80 (P. distichum); 

 Palisot de Beauvois, Fl. Oware & Benin, ii. t. 85, f. 2 (P. longi- 

 florum); Trinius, Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 112 (P. Uttorale)', t. 120; 

 Teysmannia, xxiv. 1913, t. 9 (P. distichum). 



Nun (Niger) River (Vogel), Cameroons, Senegal, Fernando 



An 



Southern 



A good grazing grass, Somaliland (Appleton, Herb. Kew). 



