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A perennial, li-2 ft. high; base creeping 6-8 in. high, Somali- 

 land (Appleton, I.e.); turf forming grass on damp ground in 

 marsh (saline), South Angola (Pearson, No. 2166, 1909, Herb. 

 Kew); found on the sandy shores of the Nun (Vogel, Herb. 

 Kew), creeping on the beach, Fernando Po (Mann, Herb. Kew), 

 in crevices of rocks on the shore, Batanga (Bates, Herb. Kew) 

 and in general mostly on the sea-shore (Fl. Trop. Afr. I.e. p. 571). 



^e/.— " Paspalum distichum {" Javaansche Voedergrassen")," 

 Becker, in Teysmannia, xxiv. 1913, pp. 423-428. 



Stenotaphrum, Trin. 



Stenotaphmm secimdatum, O, Kuntze; Fl. Trop. Afr. IX. 



p. 579 [S. glabrum, Trin. Fund. p. 176; S. americanum, Schrank, 

 Plant. Rar. Hort. Monac. t. 98, f. 8]. 



in.~Lam. Encycl. t. 48, f . 16 [EoUboella tripsacoides) ; 

 Palisot de Beauvois, Fl. Oware & Benin, t. 21, f. 8 {E. com- 

 pressa); Martius, Fl. Bras. ii. pt. 2, t. 39 [8. glabrum); Vasey, 

 Grasses, U.S. Dept. Agric. Bot. Bull. No. 12, part 1, 1890, t. 8; 

 Year Book, U.S. Dept. Agric. 1894, p. 426, f. 104 {S. americanum) \ 

 Kearney, U.S. Dept. Agric. Agrost. Bull. No. 1, 1895 (>S'. ameri- 

 ca7ium); Wood, Natal PI. ii. t. 184 (>S'. glabrum); Hitchcock, 

 Grasses (1914), p. 188, f. 28 {S. secundatum) and U.S. Dept Agric' 

 Bull. No. 772, 1920, p. 220. 



St. Augustine Grass (America), Mission Grass (Florida, 

 Kearney), Pimento Grass (Jamaica, Cousins), Crab Grass (Ber- 

 muda, Middleto?i— spec, in Herb. Kew), Mat Grass (St. Helena, 

 Mellissspec. in Herb. Kew), Enghsh Wire Grass (St. Helena' 

 Burchell— spec . in Herb. Kew), Buffalo Grass (Australia) ; Herbe 

 bourrique (Mauritius, Tempamj); Cape Tweek Grass, Natal 

 Tweek Grass (Burtt-Davy). 



Opobo (Jeffreys, No. 18, Herb. Kew), Nun (Niger) River 

 (Mann), Cameroons and also known from the Ivory Coast, Gold 

 Coast, St. Thomas Island, Prince's Island, Gaboon, Angola, 

 St. Helena, S. Africa, Tropical America, Australia etc. Intro- 

 duced to South of France and Italy (Fl. Trop. Afr. I.e.). 



A pasture grass— " a tender succulent grass, in good soil 

 making a considerable quantity of forage and is said to be 

 excellent for sheep pastures " (Kearney, U.S. Dept. Agric 

 Agrost. Bull. No. 1, 1895, p. 18); affords nourishing food for 

 animals pastured under the " Pimento " trees in Jamaica ; but 

 opinions vary as to the merits as a fodder plant in other countries 

 (Kew BuU. 1894, p. 387). Cattle are regularly pastured on this 



Mauri t 



lUS 



(Tempany, Agric. News, Barbados, Feb. 22nd 1919, p. 51) 



Used for lawns— it forms a pretty green soft n at or velvetv- 

 lookmg turf, St. Helena (Melliss, Herb. Kew); grcwa as a lawn 

 grass near the sea-coast from North CaroUna to Florida and 

 Louisiana (Hitchcock, Text-book Grasses, p. 188)- used for 

 making lawns, S.E. United States, planted along the streets in 



