855 



Wales 



p. 458, f. 151; Yecar Book, U.S. Dept. Agric, 1894, p. 431; 

 Kearney, U.S. Dept. Agric. Div. Agrost. Bull. No. 1, 1895, p. 9; 

 Lisboa, Bombay Grasses, p. 104; Wood, Natal PL v. t. 430; 

 Hitchcock, Grasses, p. 215, f, 46 {Capriola Dacfylon) and in 

 U.S, Dept. Agric. Bull. No. 772, 1920, p. 178; Bull. Agric. 

 Congo Beige, v. 1914, p. 662; Agric. Gaz. N.S. Wales, xxvi- 

 1915, p. 1032; Piper, Forage PL p. 238, f. 26; Tracy, U.S. 

 Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 814, 1917, p. 4, f. 1. 



Vernac. names. — Kiri Kiri, Tsirkiar or Tsar-Kiyar Zomo 

 (Sokoto, Hausa, Dalziel) ; Nagil (Arabic, Broun) ; Capim dos 

 caballos ^' Horse hay " (Loanda, Welwitsch)] Dub, Khabbal, 

 Talla (India, Diithie, Watt). — Bermuda Grass, Bahama Grass, 

 Wire Grass (Virginia), Dogs' Tooth Grass, Indian Couch, Devil's 

 Grass, Quagga Quick (Transvaal); Uganda Grass (Nairobi, 



Kew) ; Hairy Panick Grass. 



Kew 



Old Calabar, Nupe, Sokoto, and Borgu specimens i 

 Herbarium from Nigeria, but few grasses are so widely distri- 

 buted over the Tropics and Sub -tropics and this cosmopolitan 

 character is extended to some temperate regions, including the 



South of England. 



An important fodder plant, used for pasture and for hay in 



We 



In the 



United States it is stated to be the most important perennial 

 grass in the South (Piper k Tracy seq.) and on specimens in the 

 Herbarium at Kew the grass is noted as being used for feeding 

 stock in British East Africa (Kenya Colony), ['' Star Grass " 

 [Cynodon pledostachyum , Pilger) is also said to be a dominant 

 grass on the East African Plains; it has been established at 

 Pretoria where it promises well and likely to be of importance 

 as a stock-graves (Pole-Evans, letter to Director Kew, dated 

 Pretoria, 6th Feb. 1920)]; in Somaliland, Rhodesia, Unyoro and 

 Mossamedes, a good fodder in Sokoto (Dalziel, Hausa Bot. Voc. 

 p. 63) ; cattle choose it of all others, Central Africa (Grant, 

 Trans. Linn, Soc, xxix. p. 173), In the West Indies the under- 

 ground rhizomes are also used for feeding animals. 



This is usually regarded as the best grass for lawns in the 



some 



Old Calabar, Lagos, Maigana, Kaduna etc. in Nigeria. At 

 Maigana " Dubh '' grass planted on an acre of ground in 1913 

 was reported on in 1914 (Rae, Ann. Rep. Dept. Agric. N. Nigeria, 

 p. 13) as well estabHshed, and at Kaduna in 1914 it was reported 



Kew 



stumped 



the ground was then prepared by means of " Planet -Junior " 

 Cultivators drawn by cattle. It has since been laid down mth 

 Doob Grass {Cynodon DactyJon)^ partly from seed and partly 

 with runners obtained from a plot estabHshed at Maigana in 

 1913. The result is very gratifying, a fair turf having been 

 obtained in less than a year.'* It is also being grown in Uganda 



