840 



A good fodder grass, Rhodesia (Appleton, No. 17, Herb. 

 Kew) and may in all probability be equal to the foregoing species 

 as a fodder plant, with which it has often been placed as a 

 variety. 



A perennial; about 2 ft. high, Avith silvery fluffy flowering 

 panicle, Sokoto (Dalziel, Hausa Bot. Voc, p. 72—2^. roseay Nees, 

 var. sphacelata) ; very abundant Yola (Dalziel) ; fairly common 

 grass, roads and waste ground, and gravelly soil 3-4 ft. high, 

 or average height 1-2 ft. Lokoja (Parsons), in cultivated grounds 

 and open plains, Nupe (Barter) and found growing in clumps in 

 the bush Rhodesia (Appleton) — notes on specimens in the Kew 

 Herbarium. 



Melinis, Beauv, 

 Melinis minutiflora, Beauv. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. ined. 



IlL — Beauv. Agrost. t- 11, f. 4 (var, pilosa); Queensland 

 Agric. Journ. ix. Aug. 1901, p. 215. 



Vernac. names. — Capim mellado, Capim gordiira (Brazil, 

 Lamson-Scribner). — Brazilian Stink grass, Honey Grass, Molasses 

 Grass . 



Native of Brazil; occurring in Tropical Africa, including 

 Nigeria — specimen in Herb. Kew from Rabba Road (Parsons, 

 Oct. 1907) in Madagascar, Ascension Island ; introduced to 

 Queensland, West Indies — under experiment in Dominica (Agric. 

 News, Barbados, vii. 1908, p. 366 : Rep. Bot. St. Dominica, 

 1908-09); Southern United States etc.; the var. pilosa Stapf, 

 occurs in Natal, Nyasaland and on Mt. Ruwenzori ; cultivated 

 experimentally in the Philippines (PhiHppine Agric. Rev. 1912, 



p. 27). 



An excellent fodder plant valued in Brazil for horses and 

 cattle; may be used green or as hay; but recommended to be 

 cut before the seed-heads show (Kew Bull. 1900, p. 31); an 

 excellent grass for dairy cows (Lamson-Scribner, -U.S. Dexrt. Agric. 

 Div. of Agrostology, Bull. No. 14, 1898, p. 47). 



A perennial, 3-4 ft, high. 



Ref.—" Brazilian Stink Grass," Kew Bull. 1900, p. 31. 



Pennisetum, Pers. 



Pennisetum clandestinumj Cldov.; Fl. Trop. Afr. med. [P. 



longistylum, var. dandestina, Leeke; P. loiigistylutn, (?) ex 

 Burtt-Davy, in Agric. Joum, Union S. Afr. ii. 1915, p. 147]. 

 IlL— Kew Bull. 1921, p. 91. 



Kikuyu Grass (East Africa, S. Africa, Pole-Evans, Burtt- 

 Davy, Melle). 



^ British East Africa (Kenya Colony); Uganda, Tanganyika 

 ritory, Abyssinia, Eritrea and introduced to South Africa 

 under cultivation. 



A fodder plant; ''wild game are particularly fond of it" 

 and on farms '' all kinds of stock eat it o^reedilv and if nrnrlnnpa 



