836 



Journ. Union S. Africa, 1911, p. 187). 



(Walte 



W, 



Martin 



Bull. No. 1162, 1920, pp, 1-15, illustrated. 



Panicum repens, Linn, ; Fl. Trop. Afr. IX. p. 708. 



Ill—CeiV. Ic. ii, t. 110; Sibth. FL Gr. t, 61; Teysmannia, 

 xxviii. 1917, p. 273, t, 38; Barbey, Herbor. Levant, t. 8, f. 4 

 (P. leiogonum), 



Vernac. name. — Roempoet-lalampoej angan (Java, Backer) ; 



Attora (Ceylon, Thivaites). 



Lagos, Nupe, Cameroons, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Uganda, 

 French Congo, Belgian Congo, Angola, Rhodesia, in Africa 

 and widely distributed in Tropical and Sub-tropical countries, 

 including the Mediterranean region, India, China and Malaya 

 (KewBulL 1907, p. 214). 



Said to be a very good fodder-plant and also useful as a 

 sand-binder (Fl. Trop. Afr, I.e.) ; a fodder plant in Java (Backer, 

 Teysmannia, 1917, aeq.), in India and Cevlon (Watt, Diet. Econ. 



Prod. India) ; a good fodder fo] 



in gardens, Ceylon (Thwaites, PL Zeyl. p. 360). 



troublesome 



(Barter, Herb. Kew 

 (Bates, Herb. Kew). 



with creeping rhizomes ; found 

 Kew), in wet places, Nupe 



Bef, — ** Panicu7n repens^*^ Backer, in Teysmannia, xxviii. 



1917 (*' Javannsche 



Sacciolepis, Nash. 



Sacciolepis interrupta, Stapf\ Fl. Trop. Afr. IX. p. 757, 



[Panicum interruptu7n, Willd. Sp. PL i. p. 341.] 



/Z/.— Griffiths, Ic. PL Asiatic, t. 139 f. 221 ; t. 146 f. 2. 



Vernac, 7ianies. — Bubuchi (Sokoto, Dalziel) ; Keep, or Be, 

 Kuli, Elube, Nombo (Sierra Leone, Thomas). 



Lagos, Opobo, Sokoto in Nigeria and known also from 

 Sierra Leone, Uganda, Belgian Congo, Angola, Nyasaland; in 

 India, China, and Malaya. 



A perennial 2-5 'ft. high, in marshes and rivers, Sokoto 



(Dalziel, Herb . Kew and Hausa Bot . Voc . p . 1 6 — Panicum 



interruptum) \ in sw^amps, India (FL Br. India, vii. p. 41); 

 suggested for planting as a mud- binder. 



Setaeia, p. Beauv. 



Setaria aurea, Hochst. ; FL Trop. Afr. IX. ined. 



Ill— Wood, Natal PL v. t. 479; Transv. Agric. Journ. vi 

 1907-08, t. 76; Kunth, Rev. Gram. ii. t. 118 {8. glauca var. 

 elongata). 



Herb 



Aboh, Nigeria (Barter, No. 139, Herb. Kew) ; Lagos 

 (MacGregor, No. 170, Herb, Kew); knov/n from the Gold Coast. 



