832 



Ref, — " Une Nouvelle Plante a Sucre de TAfrique Fran^aise 

 Centrale," Chevalier, in Revue Cult. Col. vii. Sept. 1900, 



pp. 513-520.— — -^'Une Nouvelle Plante h Sucre de TAfrique 

 Frangaise Centrale {Panicwn Biirgu, Chev. )/ ' Chevalier, in 

 Extrait des Comptes rendua de T Assoc. Franc. 1900, pp. 642- 

 656. 



Oplismenus, Beauv. 

 Oplismenus Burmannii, Beauv. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. IX. p. 636. 



III. — Host, Gram. Austr. iii. t. 52 {Panicum hirtelhim) ; 

 Trinius, Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 193; Dutbie, Indig, Fodder Gr. 

 N. India, t. 47. 



Lagos, Ndoni Town (Barter) — on the Engenni Biver, a 

 tributary of the Niger; Cameroons, Senegambia, Sierra Leone, 

 French Guinea, Lower Guinea, Abyssinia, Lake Nyasa etc. 

 in Tropical Africa and widely distribxited throughout the 

 Tropics. 



Cattle eat this grass when young and it is said to make good 

 hay, India (Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. India). 



An annual, 1| ft. high, culms slender, found under various 

 conditions — in open woods and swampy places, Fernando Po 

 (Vogel, Herb. Kew), in grassy wooded places, in maize fields 

 and in shady woods, Angola (Welwitsch, Herb. Kew). 



Oplismenus hn^ellus, Beauv.; Fl, Trop. Afr. IX. p. 631. 

 [O. africamts, Beauv. Fl. Oware ii. p. 15; Panicum africamim 

 Poir. Encycl. Suppl. iv. p. 275.] 



III. — Pal. de Beauv. FL Oware & Benin, ii. t. 68, f. 1 ; 

 Beauvois, Agrost. t. 11, f. 3; Trinius, Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 188 

 {Panicum comjposiium) ; Martins, Fl. Bras. ii. pt. 2, t. 23 

 (P. loliaceum). 



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



Lagos, Oware, Benin, Kabba Road, Oban in Nigeria, 

 Cameroons Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Liberia and widely 

 distributed in Tropical Africa, including Lower Guinea, Nile Land 

 — Kenya Colony, Uganda, etc., and Mozambique District. 



A fodder grass, collected for horses, Entebbe, Uganda (Mahon, 

 Herb. Kew). 



A perennial, up to 8 ft. (Mann, Herb. Kew) with slender-culms 

 in rich humid places, often on Lake Shore, Entebbe (Mahon, I.e.), 

 in shady situations, not common, Kabba (Parsons, Herb. Kew), 

 in shady places in the Ikoyi bush, Lagos (Dalziel, Herb. Kew), 

 a common low grass in forest, Chipete, Rhodesia, altitude 

 3500 ft. (Swj^nnerton, Herb. Kew). 



Panicttivi, Linn. 



Panicum anabaptistum, Stetid.; Fl. Trop. Afr. IX. p. 678 



[Panicum subalhidum, Cheval. Sudania, pp. 34, 176,] 



Vernac. names. — Tsuntsia or Tsintsiya (Katagum, Dalziel). 



