830 



A good fodder, Arabia (Schweinfurth, Herb. Kew). 

 An annual 4-5 ft. high; common in shady ravines^ Nupe 

 (Barter, Herb. Kew); in fields, Sokoto (Dalziel, Herb. Kew). 



EcHiNOCHLOA, Beauv. 



Echinoehloa COlona, Linh\ Fl. Trop. Afr. IX. p. 607 [Panicum 

 colominiy Linn. Sp. PL p, 84], 



IlL — Jacq. Eclogae PL Rar. (Gram.) i. t. 32 {Panicum colonum) ; 

 Trinius, Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 160 (P, colonum); Duthie, Indig. 

 Fodder Gr. N. India, t. 4 {Panicum colonum) ; Church, Food 

 Grains, India, p. 51 (P. colonum) ; Lisboa, Bombay Grasses, p. 11 

 (P. colonum). 



Shama Millet (India) ; Wild or Jungle Rice (India, Church). 



Nupe in Northern Nigeria, Senegambia, French Sudan, Nile 

 Land, including Somaliland, Uganda, B.E. Africa (Kenya Colony) 

 in Angola, French Congo, G.E. Africa (Tanganyika Territory), 

 Nyasaland, Rhodesia etc. and widely spread in the 'Tropics and 

 many warm countries, 



A fodder plant — " generally considered one of the best fodder 

 grasses in India ; it is greedily eaten by all kinds of cattle, both 

 before and after it has flowered, the abundant crop of grain 

 which it yields adding materially to its nutritive value " (Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. India). The grain is also sometimes used for 

 food by the poorer people in India (Lc. and Church, "Food- 

 grains of India," p. 60). 



An annual, growing in smaU tufts up to 2 ft. high (FL Trop. 

 Afr. I.e.); prefers a rich soil and is often met with as a weed 

 of cultivation, abundant throughout the plains, India (Watt 

 I.e.). 



Echinoehloa Cms-Pavonis, Schult.; FL Trop. Afr. IX. p. 612 



[Panicum Crus-Pavonis, Nees : Oplismenus Crus-Pavonis, H.B, & 



K.]. 



IlL — Wood, Natal PL ii. t. 151 {Panicum Crus-Pavonis, var. 

 rostratum). 



Vernac. name. — Yofoni (Sierra Leone, Thomas). 



Lagos, Oban in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, French Guinea, 

 Uganda, Belgian Congo, Angola, Nyasaland and also in Natal 

 and Tropical South America. 



An annual, 5 ft. high ; suggested as a fodder plant. 



Echinoehloa pyramidalis, Hitchcock & Chase; FL Trop. Afr. 



IX, p. 615 [Panicum pyramidale. Lam.; Panicum frumentaceum , 

 Benth. (non Roxb.)]. 



IlL — Kunth, Rev. Gram. i. t. 23 {Panicum pyramidale) . 



Vernac. names, — Roba (Hausa, Dalziel) ; Aloa (Shuwa Arabs, 

 Lake Chad, Lamb); Om Suf (Arabic, Muriel); Kreb, Kasha 

 (Bornu, Chevalier ^ Siapf) ; Lingui (French Sudan, Chevalier ^ 

 Stapf), 



