844 



Ibid, in Rhodesia Agric. Journ. x. Feb. 1913, pp. 362-368. 



"Elephant Grass or Napier's Fodder," Walters, I.e. x. Aug. 



1913, pp. 833-83G; pis. i.-iv. " Elei3hant Grass as a Paper 



Making Material," Bull. Imp. Inst. xi. 1913, pp. 68-70. 



Pennisetum spicatimi, Koem.; FI. Trop. Afr. ined. [P. 



Willd 



canum, Linn.]. 



III. — Beauvois, Agrost. t. 13, f. 4 {PeniciUaria spicata) ; Jacq. 

 Eclogae Gram. t. 17 (P. spicata). Delile, Egypte, t. 8, f. 3? 

 Church, Food Grains, India, App. pp. 66, 57; Duthie Field 

 Crops, t. 71; Lisboa, Bombay Grasses, p. 34; Wood, Natal PL 



f. 26 (P. glaucum) and 



Hitchcocl 



U.S. Dept. Agric. Bull. No. 772, 1920, p. 246, f. 149 (P. glaucum). 

 Vernac. names. — Gero (Nupe, Barter) ; Gero, Maiwa, damro 

 (Hausa, Dalziel) ; Mishuera (Zambesi, Kirk) ; Dukhu or Dookhr 

 (Arabic, Schweinfurth, Bromfield); Dukhu (Sudan, Col. Rep. 

 Ann. No. 816, 1914, p. 35); Shessab (Tripoli, Barber); Um-vehi- 

 veUi (Matabele, Burtt-Davy); Leeuja (Msutu, Transvaal, Burit- 

 Davy); Amabile (Kafir, Nelson); Bultuc (Eritrea, Manetti); 



(Mandin 



Mawah (Zanzibar, Bull. 



Imp. Inst. 1914, p. 341); Bajra (India, Watt). Cumboo or 



i 



Millet, Bulrush Millet, Kaffir Manna-Koorn, 

 Widely distributed in Tropical Africa and Asia ; introduced to 

 the United States and S. Europe. 



The grain is a staple food of the natives in Nigeria and pro- 

 bably all over Tropical Africa, in India where the plant is 

 sometimes cut green and also after the grain is ripe for fodder; 

 both the grain and leaves are used for cattle food in N. Nigeria 

 (Dudgeon, Agric. & For. Prod. W. Africa, p. 148). Grown to a 

 limited extent in the Southern United States for forage (Hitch- 

 cock, Grasses, p. 186), used more particularly as soilage, cut 

 before the stems become hard and woody. The crop in the 

 grain is usually subject to much loss by birds and might therefore 

 be recommended for feeding poultry and game in tliis country; 

 a sample of the grain, with this view, was submitted to Kew 

 in 1918). It is much used as food for poultry in South Africa 

 (Walters, Agric. Journ. L^nion of S. Africa, Aug. 1911, p. 187). 

 A sample of grain from Pateji, N. Nigeria, submitted to the 

 trade (1910), was unknown to EngHsh buyers and being too 

 small for analvsis was not valued as a food-grain (Col. Rep. 



but the analysis of a sample from 



Mi 



Zanzibar shows: — Moisture, 10-6; Crude proteins, 12-47 (True 

 proteins, 11-37; other nitrogenous substances, 1-1); Fat, 5; 

 Starch, etc., 67-13; Fibre, 2-8 and Ash, 2 per cent.; Nutrient 

 ratio, 1 : 6-3, and Food Units, 110-8; no cyanogenetic gluco- 

 sides. The grain did not come on to the EngHsh market regularly ; 

 but consignments would probably have reaKsed (May 1913) about 

 225. per 480 lb. (Bull. Imp. Inst. 1914 p. 341).— from India this 

 grain is to some extent exported to other countries by sea ; but 

 the trade returns include it under " juar " (Sorghum) (Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. India). In the South-west Congo the natives 



