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Nu2)e, Katagum, Sokoto in Nigeria and also known from 

 the Cameroons, Senegambia, French Sudan and Chari Territory. 



Used for thatch, making mats, brooms, etc, Katagum and 

 Sokoto (Dalziel, Herb. Kew; Hausa Bot. Voc. p. 96); a fodder 

 plant, French Guinea (Pobeguin, Fl. Guin. Fran?, p. 214). 



A perennial, 3-4 ft. high, much planted as a field boundary 

 in Sokoto (Dalziel, I.e. — P. subalhidulum) \ 5 ft. in moist places, 

 Nupe (Barter, Herb, Kew), 



Panicum Dregeanum, Nees\ Fl, Trop. Afr. IX. p. 684, 



Abinsi, N. Nigeria, Congo, Hhodesia, Nyasaland and widely 

 distributed in Tropical Africa, also in the Transvaal and Natal. 



A good forage plant in Khodesia (Appleton, Herb. Kew). 



A perennial, 1-4 ft, high, with erect very slender stems ; 

 common in damp pastures, near Abinsi (Dalziel, Herb. Kew) ; 

 found growing in clumps near water, M'rewa, Rhodesia 

 (Appleton, I.e.), 



Panicum laetum, Kunth; FL Trop. Afr, IX. p. 700. 



[P. subalbidum, Hochst. (non Ktinfh),] 



Vernac. names. — [Baia or Baya (Katagum); Baina (Kano) ; 

 Sabe or Sabi (Hausa), Dalziel] ; Kandala, Karkiebon, Saba fatan 

 (French Sudan, Baghirmi, Chevalier), 



Katagum, East Hausaland, in N. Nigeria and Middle Niger 

 region, French Sudan. 



An important food grain in time of scarcity, Katagum 

 (Dalziel, No. 262, Herb, Kew) ; but the grain is recorded by 

 Chevaher (No. 9934, Herb. Kew) as not being eaten in Bagirmi, 



River Shari region. 



Annual, 1-2 ft. high, more or less tufted (Stapf, Fl, Trop. 

 Afr. I.e.) a wild grass common in East Hausa (Dalziel, Hausa 

 Bot. Voc. p. 15), edible grain gathered by sweeping a calabash 

 across the heads — and the name " Sabi " for this reason perhaps 

 appKed to more than one species (I.e. — Panicum albidulum). 



Panicum longijubatmn, Stapf; FL Trop. Afr. IX. p. 718. 



[Panicum proUferum, Lara. var. longijubatum^ Stapf, Fl, Cap. vii. 

 p. 406; P. miliare, Chev. Sudania, p. 159.] 



Veriiac. names. — Machara, Gabara (Hausa, Dalziel). 



Katagum, Sokoto, also known from parts including almost 

 the whole of West Africa, Somaliland, Eritrea, Belgian Congo, 



East Africa and in South Africa. 



Hollow stems used as whistles by children in Katagum 

 (Dalziel, l.c, p. 71) ; a fodder plant, French Guinea (Pobeguin, I.e.) 



Perennial, 4 ft. or so high. 



Panicum maximum, J acq. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. IX. p. 655, 



Ill—Jixcq. Ic. PI. Rar. i. t. 13; Wood, Natal PI. ii. t. 156; 

 Bull. Agric. Congo Beige, v. p. 664, f. 219; Teysmaimia, xxv* 

 1914, p. 524, t. 26; PhiUppine Agric. Rev. May 1914, t. 2; 

 Agric. Gaz. N.S. Wales, xxix, 1918, p. 845, f. 2. 



Vernac. names. — Ikbo mill (Ala, S. Nigeria, Thomas) ; Capim 

 de Angola (Brazil, Stapf) ; Capim de Colonia (Brazil, Kew Bull. 



