S4d 



Rev. Gram. i. t. 44 {A. mauritiana)\ Trillins, Sp. Gram. Ic. 

 t. 313 (.4. coerulescens); Duthie Indig. Fodder Gr. N. India, . 

 t. 30 (.4. Ilys(rix). 



Vernac, name. — Oka Olongo (8. Nigeria, Dodd), 



Lagos, also known from the Gold Coast, Sudan, Somaliland, 



and fonnd in S. Africa, India, Burma, Ceylon and in many 



warm countries. 



A good feeding grass, Somaliland (Appleton, Herb. Kew; 

 Kew Bull. 1907, p. 210); a favourite food for cattle in N. India 

 too fine to be cut with a scythe and too short and light to 



(Watt 



A. depressa). 



Annual or occasionally perennial; culms tufted, slender 

 a few inches to 2 ft. long (Fl, Cap. vii. p. 554) I|-2 ft, long 

 (Kew Bull. I.e.); very common on dry sandy plains around 

 Accra (Brown, Herb. Kew) ; grows in a dry, barren, binding 

 soil, in the plains of N. India (Watt. I.e.). 



Aristida stipoides. Lam. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. ined. 



IJL — Trans, Linn. Soc. xxix. t. 1 14, f . 1 {A, gracUlima) ; 

 Agric. Gaz. N.S. Wales, vii, Oct. 1896, 2^. GoO; Maiden, Grasses, 

 N.S. Wales, p. 106. 



Vernac. names, — Katsaimu, Garasa, Wutsiyar Jald, Tsintsiyar 

 Kogi or Maza (Hausa, Dalziel). — A Wire Grass. 



Sokoto, Katagum, etc. in Nigeria and in Tropical Africa 

 from Senegal in the West io Tanganyika Colonj^ in the East. 

 Also in Australia, 



Commonly used for thatcliing, N. Nigeria (Dalziel, Hausa 

 Bot. Voc. p. 60). The sharp awns make this grass of little or 

 no value for fodder and it has been recorded of it *' a hard dry 

 wiry grass which is as a rule but little relished by animals of 

 any kind, when burnt off it produces a moderate quantity of 

 tender feed but this soon becomes of a hard fibrous nature " 

 (Maiden, Agric. Gaz, N.S. Wales, vii. 1896, p. 650); *' the worst 

 of all species for forage, the a^\Tis are most troublesome both 

 to the animal's eyes and the wool " (Turner, Grasses, N.S. Wales, 

 p. 6). 



A perennial, 1-2 ft. high, found in ridges in the interior, 

 AustraHa (Turner, I.e.). A tall grass, Sokoto, etc. (Dalziel, I.e.), 



Perotis, Ait. 



Perotis latifolia^ Ait, ; Fl. Trop. Afr. ined. 



Ill — Beauvois, Agrost. t. 4, f . 9 ; Kunth, Rev. Gram. 

 i. t. 92, 



Vernac. names. 



Kurese 



Dalziel). 



Lagos, Nupe, Yola, etc. in Nigeria; also known from the 

 Gold Coast, Somaliland, Uganda, Rhodesia, Transvaal and 

 Natal and in general recorded as occurring throughout Tropical 



