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introduced ; but it will be clear that Nigeria has here a valuable 

 fodder plant well worthy of development, especially in the 

 Southern Provinces, where the rainfall is more satisfactory and 

 the general requirements more suitable. 



The large and continuous supply of green forage provided, 

 more or less the whole year round may be a sufficient recom- 

 mendation; but care against over-feeding with this grass in a 

 rank state has been advised (Kew Bull. I.e. p. 383) and used 

 as hay the moisture content is very heavy; the loss in weight 

 by air-drying, proved by actual experiment in Trinidad, has 

 been found to be at the rate of G3 lb. per 100 lb., allowing a 

 further 33 per cent, for unedible portions, a, return of 75 tons 

 was reduced to 18-6 tons of air dry Guinea Grass per acre per 

 annum (Hart, Ann. Rep. Roy, Bot. Gdn. Trinidad, 1898, p. 14). 



Bef, — " Panicum jumeniorum, Guinea Grass,*' Watt, Diet. 



Econ. Prod. India, v. part 1a, 1892, pp. 10-12. ''Panicum 



fnaximum,'' in Kew Bull. 1894, pp. 382-383. Food Value 



and Yield of Guinea Grass {Panicum maximum),^' Annual Rep, 



Roy. Bot. Gdns. Trinidad, 1898, pp. 14-15. " L'Herbe de 



Guinee ou Panicum maximum,'' in PI. Utile Congo, De Wildeman, 

 Art. X. pp. 63-68; xxxi. pp. 504-506 (Spineux et Cie, Bruxelles, 

 1903-04). *' Guinea Grass," in *' Some Important Grasses 



a 



nd Forage Plants for the Gulf Coast Region," Tracy, U.S. 

 Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 300, 1907, pp. 11-13. 



" Cultivation of Guinea Grass," Narayan Rao, in Agric. Journ. 



India, v. Oct. 1910, pp. 362-366. '' Guinea Grass [Panicum 



warfimi/m), " Jacobson, in PhiHppine Agric, Rev. vii. May 1914, 



pp. 211-215. ''Panicum maximton, var. C07n7nunis^ Backer, 



in Teysmannia, xxv. 1914, ( Javaansche Voedergrassen ' ' ) 



pp. 523-549 " Guinea Grass {Panicum maximum) " Piper, 



in Forage Plants and Their Culture," pp. 254-256 (The Macmillan 

 Co. New York, 1915). 



Panicum miliaceum, Linn. ; Fl. Trop. Air. IX p 696. 



III. — Host. Gram. Austr. ii. t. 20; Jacq. Eclogae. Gram. 

 t. 31 (P. aspermnum) ] Trinius, Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 221; Hitchcock, 

 Grasses, p. 182, f. 21; Duthie, Field Crops, t, 23; Barber, 

 Inter. Sugar Journ. Dec. 1920, p. 685. 



Vernac, names. — Chena (India, Watt) ; Brown Com IVIillet 

 (from the resemblance of the heads to those of ^'^ Broom Corn " — 

 Sorghum), Indian IVIillet, Proso Millet (Russia, Walters), 



Nyasaland, etc. in East Tropical Africa, cultivated but 

 more commonly grown in India, Ceylon, China, Japan, Persia, 



Egypt, Russia, America, etc. 



Grain used as food, largely for cage-birds, and the plant 

 more or less for forage. 



An annual plant, 2-4 ft. high, very variable — seeds white, 

 red, brown, black or shades approacliing these colours, the 

 varieties including " French White," " Red Orenburg and 

 " Black Voronezh " (Russian), and '' Early Fortune " (seeds 

 reddish-brown) and ''Brown Millet"; the jdeld has been given 



