853 



{Eragrostis ahyssinica)," Burtt-Davy, I.e. v. Jan, 1913, pp. 27- 



37. " Teff {Eragrostis abyssinka)," Burtt-Davy, in Kew 



Bull. 1913, pp. 32-39. "Teff Grass {Eragrostis abyssinica)," 



Burtt-Davy, pp. 1-36 (Published by the author, Johannesburg, 

 Sept. 1916). 



Eragrostis ciliaris, LinJc.; Fl. Trop. Afr. ined. 



//Z.— Jacq. Ic. PI. Rar. ii. t. 304 {Poa ciliaris) Duthie, Fodder 

 Grasses, N. India, t. 38 ; Wood, Natal PI. v. t. 428 ; Hitchcock, 

 Grasses, U.S. Dept. Agric. Bull. No. 772, 1920, p. 50, f. 17. 



Vernac. names. — Olori funfun (Lagos, Dawodu); Woawo 

 (Ebute Metta, Millen). 



Lagos, Opobo, Nupe, Katagum, etc. in Nigeria also in 

 Togoland, Gold Coast, Nyasaland, Rliodesia, Sudan, Somaliland, 



Tropical America, N. India etc. 



(Watt 



Kew 



An annual, tufted, culms l-|-2 ft., common on sandy ground, 

 India (Watt, I.e.), in cultivated ground Nupe (Barter, Herb. 

 Kew) and in sandy loam, river Uttoral, Burutu (Parsons, Herb. 



Kew). 



Eragrostis gangetica, Roxb.; Fl. Trop. Afr. ined. 



/^;._Wood, Natal PI. v. t. 419. 

 ' Vernac. name. — Tsintsiya (Sokoto, Dalziel). 

 Ogurude (Cross River), Opobo, Lokoja, Sokoto, Lake Chad, 

 etc. in Nigeria; also in Sierra Leone, East Africa, and Tropical 



Asia. 



A fodder plant, Sokoto (Dalziel, Herb. Kew) ; used for thatch 



and commonly sold for brooms, Hausaland (Dalziel, Hausa, Bot. 

 Voc. p. 96— Eragrostis sp ; biformis ?). 



A perennial, with culms 1-3 ft. long, in tufts. 



Eragrostis megastachya, Link.; Fl. Trop. Afr. ined. 



[E. Major, Hochst.]. 



/«.— Cav. Ic. i. t. 92 {Poa Eragrostis) ; Sibth. Fl. Gr. t. 73 

 (P. Eragrostis); Host. Gram. Austr. iv. t. 24; Reichb. Ic. Fl. 

 Germ. i. t. 91, f. 1662 {E. megastachya); Duthie, Indig. Fodder 

 Gr N India, t. 75 {E. megastachya); Li^boa, Bombay Grasses, 

 p. 123; Agiic. Gaz. N.S. Wales, xxiii. 1912, p. 582 : xxix. 1918, 

 p. 781 ; Hitchcock, Grasses, U. States Dept. Agric. Bull. No. 772, 



1920 {E. cilianensis). 



Vernac. names. — Buddari or Bauderi (Abinsi, Hausa, Dalziel) ; 



Eran awo (Lagos, MacGregor) ; 



Dodd) 



Harfo (Somaliland, Drake- Brochman) ; Sika Tsuntsua (Nupe, 

 Barter) .—^tmk Grass (N.S. Wales, Maiden). 



Lagos, Nupe, Aboh, Katagum in Nigeria and throughout 

 Africa, Mediterranean region, and India; introduced as a weed 



into many countries. 



Used more or less as fodder for cattle and horses, India (Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. India— ^. megastachya) ; leaf growth in the 

 early stages very succulent and readily eaten by sheep; but 



