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much 



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dried for horses, Western Sudan (Chevalier, Joum. d'Agric. 

 Tropicale, 1911, p. 97, Bull. Bureau Agric. Int. Rome, June 

 1911, p. 1318 — P. setosum). A sample of this grass, submitted by 

 the Department of Agriculture, Entebbe, to the Imperial Institute, 

 was found on investigation to be of satisfactory com2)osition as 

 a fodder, closely resembling " Elephant Grass " {Pennisetum 

 purpureum) — the analysis showed. Crude proteins, 9 • 9 per cent. ; 

 Fat. 2-7; Carbohydrates, 38-6; Fibre, 40-1 and Ash, 8-7 per 

 cent. The nutrient ratio was given as 1 : 4-5 and the Food 

 units as 70 and the sample was free from cyanogenetic glucosides 

 (Ann. Rept. Dep^. Agric. Uganda for 1920 (pub. 1921) p. 52). 



p. 87) ; 5-6 ft. high, about towns 

 and villages (Barter, Herb. Kew) ; an annual 30-50 cm. high. 

 Western Sudan (ChevaHer, I.e.); a coarse tall grass with fluify 

 flowering heads, a common pest in waste places in towns, Kano 

 etc., very common, Lokoja, N. Nigeria, (Dalziel, Herb. Kew : 

 Hausa Bot. Voc. p. 69), plentiful in creeks and ditches, Burutu 

 (Parsons, Herb. Kew) ; a " bulrush grass " — ^grows in open 

 places where jungle has been cleared, Opobo (Jeffreys, Herb. 

 Kew). The Uganda grass above mentioned was raised from 

 seed collected from plants growing in a savannah near Entebbe. 



Pennisetum purpureum, Schum.; Fl. Trop. Afr. ined. [P. 

 Benthamii, Steud.]. 



Ill— Ann. Rep. Bot. Dept. Uganda, 1913, p. 29 (a view of 

 Elephant Grass"); Rhodesia, Agric. Journ. x. 1913, tt. 1-4; 

 Notizbl. Bot, Gart. BerHn, App, xxii. 7th Nov. 1909 p 48' 

 f. 18. ' i- > 



Vernac. names. — Esun funfun (S. Nigeria, Dodd); Esun 

 (Lagos, Millen); Esu-pupa (Lagos, MacGregor); Shibra or 

 Shura, Yanbama (Sokoto, Dalziel) ; [Zinyamunga (Rhodesia, 

 Kenny)] Marabagunda or M'ramba munga (Rhodesia, Napier, 

 Mundy) ; Maweengo-weengo (Madi, Uganda, Grant) ; Ada (Togo- 

 land, Stapp, ; Madiadi (Lower Congo, Laurent) ; Dilenge (Katanga, 

 Verdick); Mariango, Massango etc. (Angola, Welwitsch), Mbuhu' 

 Nguhu (Usambara, Hoist) Stapf]; Napier's Fodder, Elephant 

 Grass . 



Lagos, Sokoto, Ogumde (Cross River), Abinsi etc. in Nigeria, 

 and found also in. West Africa from Sierra Leone tc? the 

 Cameroons, Angola, Congo and Zarabe3i river regions, Tanganyika 

 Territory (German E. Africa), Rhodesia etc. 



A fodder grass for both cattle and horses, strongly recom- 

 mended in Rhodesia, Cameroons, Uganda and other parts of 

 Africa. The spike of " Shibra " or " Shura " is stripped while 

 young and soft and used as food in soup, &c. Sokoto (Dalziel, 

 Herb. Pvew, Hausa Bot. Voc. p. 37). Fences surrounding the 

 compounds and walls of huts are built up of the stems in Uganda 

 (Grant, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. p. 172; Kew Bull, seq.) where 

 also sharp-edged strips are sometimes used for cutting up meat and 

 also for cutting into fragments the victims of the King of Uganda 



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