860 



Cat. Welw. Afr. PI. ii. p. 224) ; used in the manufacture of beer 



Eritrea (Agric. Col. Italy, v. March 1911, pp. 100-113); for 

 distilling into Pombe beer, Zambesi (Scott, Herb. Kew) ; as 

 a cereal and for making beer (Wood, Herb. Kew) ; a food grain 

 in N. Nigeria (Dudgeon, Agric. & For. Prod. W. Africa, p. 149 : 

 Dalziel, Hausa Bot. Voc, p. 91 and Herb. Kew — specimen from 

 Katagum) ; mixed with other grains forms the principal food 

 Luabo District, Zambesi (Kirk, Herb. Kew) ; a food grain in 

 Abyssinia (CoL Rep. Misc. No. 71, 1910, p. 212). Samples of 

 the grain have been submitted to brokers in London ; but there 

 is no market for it here, although given a probable value of 

 £4 10s. per ton (March 1906) — and suggested for cattle food; 

 but owing to the small proportion of albuminoids it was considered 

 of low value as a food-stuff (Bull. Imp. Inst. 1909, p. 151). 

 From the whole meal of this grain a dark-chocolate coloured 

 porridge and '' Kisra '' of like appearance is made, Africa (Junker, 

 Travels in Africa— 1879-1883— Keane transl. p, 272). 



An amiual, 2-5 ft. high ; or state.d to grow to a height of 

 2 ft. 6 in., Nigeria (Imp. Inst. No. 30471, specimens in Herb, 

 Kew), very like E, indica; but more robust, up to 5 ft. high 



(FL Cap. vii. p. 645). In South India seedhngs are raised in 

 nurseries and transplanted to land kept constantly moist, about 

 2 lb. of seed will plant an acre (seeds very small — 157,500 to the 

 lb.) The yield is 2000-3000 lb. of grain and about 8,000 lb. of 

 straw per acre (Barber, seq, p. 685). Cultivated everywhere by 

 the natives of the African interior for the grain, sometimes in 

 ridges with Indian corn and at other times, as in the Himalayas, 

 broadcast (Grant, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. p. 174). 



Ref. — " Eleusine coracana, the Marua or Ragi IMillet," in 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. India, Watt, iii. 1890, pp. 237-241.—'* Tamba 

 Millet from N. Nigeria and Bolu Grain from Uganda/' Bull. 



-Imp. Inst, vii. 1909, pp. 150^151. '' Report on Tamba Millet,'* 



N. Nigeria Gazette, Nov. 30th, 1909, p. 252.— '^ Bolu," Col. 

 Rep. Misc. No. 64, 1909, Uganda, pp. 11-12, with analysis.— 

 " Uimbe {Ehusine coracana),'' Bull. Imp. Inst. xii. 1914, p. 340, 



from Zanzibar, with analysis. " Ragi (Eleusine coracana),"' 



Barber, in The International Sugar Journ. xxii. Dec, 1920 

 .(" 3Iillets for Fodder on Sugar Estates ") pp. 685-686. 



Eleusine indica, Gaertn. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. ined. 



IlL — Trinius, Sp. Gram. Ic. i. t. 71 ; Lam. Encycl. t. 48, f . 3 ; 

 Kunth, Enum. Grass. Suppl. t. 16, f. 4 ; Dulhie, Fodder-Grasses. 

 N. India, t. 69; Va^oy, Agric. Grasses (1884 ed.) t 79, (1889 ed.j 

 t. 64; U.S. Dejit. Agric. Div. Agrost. i. 1895, p. 10; Rep. 1878, 

 p. 166, t. 6; 1880 t. 29, f. 6; Wood, Natal Ph v. t. 439; Brown 

 & Hunter PL Uganda, p. 79 ; Hitchcock, Grasses, U.S. Dept. 

 Agric. Bull. 772, 1920, p. 176, f. 103. 



Vernac, names, — Tuji, Chiyawar Tuji (Katagum, Dalziel) 

 Ese-Kana-Kana (Lagos, Dawodu) ; Gbegi (Lagos, 3IacGregor, 

 Dodd) ; Kasibanti (Uganda, Broivn & Hunter) ; Pe de gahnha 



