829 



Savannah— "it makes a dense turf when kept closely cut, has 

 a fresh green colour when groT\dng in good soil, is as well adapted 

 to resist drought as Bermuda and certainly nialces a brighter 

 prettier lawn than that grass does," which it is said to drive 

 out as well as all other grasses, although easily eradicated itself 

 by ploughing under (Kearney, I.e.) ; for lawns in Natal (Wood, 

 Natal PI. ii. t. 184) and for lawns in Durban and Melbourne 

 (Victoria) but rather coarse for the purpose (Burtt-Davy, Transv. 

 Agric. Journ. iii. Jan. 1905, p. 289); recommended for binding 

 sea sand and loose soil of river banks (Kew Bull. I.e.). 



A perennial, 1 ft. or so high, creeping with wide spreading 

 rhizomes— by cutting up which it may be readily propagated 

 in the same way as for " Bermuda " Grass [Cynodon Dactylon). 

 It flourishes on dry lime-stone soils in Jamaica, on the arid 

 volcanic rocks of the island of Ascension and keeps alive in the 

 hottest and driest region of Central Australia (Kew Bull. I.e.), 

 grows abundantly in damp places, St. Helena (MelHss, I.e.) and 

 running far and rooting at the joints, often forming the principal 

 part of the beach-tangle, Batanga (Bates, Herb. Kew); thrives 

 luxuriantly under the shade of trees of Casuarina eqtiisetifolia, 

 planted when the trees are from 4-5 years old, Mauritius (Tem- 

 pany, I.e.). 



^e/. — " Pimento Grass : S ienotaphrum americanum " (Ja- 

 maica Fodders"), Cousins, in BuU. Dept. Agric. Jamaica, i. 



Nov. 1903, pp. 244-245— with analysis. " IVfission Grass, 



{Stmotaphrum glabrum) " Burtt-Davy, Transv. Agric. Journ. iii. 

 Jan. 1905, p. 289 — with analysis. 



Paspalidium, Stapf. 



Paspalidium geminatmn, Stapf; Fl. Trop. Afr. IX. p. 683 



[Panicum fluitans, Retz], 



Vernac. name.— Hakorin Kare (Hausa, Dalziel). 



Sokoto, Bornu, French Sudan, Gold Coast, Cape Verde 

 Islands, Nile Land, Lower Guinea, Tanganyika Territory (G.E. 

 Africa), Nj^asaland, Portuguese East Africa, etc. 



Used as fodder, Sokoto (Dalziel, Hausa Bot. Voc. p. 46). 



Perennial \Vith long creeping or floating stolons, abundant in 

 small streams, Sokoto (Dalziel, I.e.), on the shore of Lake Chad 

 (Elliott, Herb. Kew), found on dunes and in marshes near 

 Timbuctu (Chevalier, Herb. Kew) and in rice fields near Amboni, 

 Usambara (Hoist, Herb. Kew). 



Urochloa, Beauv. 



Urochloa insculpta, Stapf; Fl. Trop. Afr. IX. p. 599 [Panictmi 

 insculptum, Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. i. p. 49]. 



Lagos, Nupe, Katagum, Sokoto, in Nigeria; known from 

 French Guinea, French Sudan, Dahomey, Gold Coast, Central 

 Shari region, Eritrea, Abyssinia, Sudan, and Tropical Arabia. 



» 1I7B1 



TJ 



