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(Golungo Alto, Wehvitsch); Wild Rapoko Grass (S, Africa, 

 Appleton) ; Osoekurunyi (Sierra Leone, Tliomas) ; 



Goose Grass 



Hitch 



Katagum 



Africa 



Worlds 



Eaten by horses, Lagos (Dawodu, Herb. Kew) ; a good fodder 

 and capable of being used as food, Hausaland (Dalziel, Hausa 

 Bot. Voc. p. 97) ; good pasturage in old lands, Buluwayo and 

 Matoppo Hills (Appleton, Herb. Kew), the best grass — though 

 remarkably strong and tough — for grazing purposes, Unyanwesi 

 District (Speke & Grant, Herb. Kew; Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 

 p, 174), and the most liked by cattle of all the grasses of Golungo 



Welw 



inches to 2 ft. (Fh Cap. vu. p. 645). 



Mupe (Barter, Herb. Kew) ; culms a few 



Daotyloctenium, Willd. 



Dactyloctenium aegyptiacmn, Willd, ; Fl. Trop. Air. ined. 



III. — Beauvois, Agrost. t. 15, f. 2; Trinius, Sp. Gram. Ic, i. 

 t. 69 (D. miicronatum) \ Lara. Encycl. t. 48, f. 2; Kearney, 

 U.S. Dept. Agric. Div. Agrost. Bull. No. i. 1895, p. 11; Wood, 

 Natal PL v. t. 441; Transvaal Agric. Journ. vi. 1907-08, t. 75; 

 Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, v. No. 46, 5th Feb. 1910, p. 146, f. 7; 

 Hitchcock, Grasses, U.S. Dept. Agric. Bull. No. 772, 1920, 

 p. 177, f. 104. 



Vernac. names. — Glide gude (Hausa. Dalziel); Inane (Natal, 

 Wood) ; Natal or Egyptian Kweek-Grass (Transvaal, Agric. 

 Journ, I.e.); Little Crowfoot (U, States, Kearney); Comb Fringe 

 Grass (Dalziel); Crowfoot Grass (U. States, Hitchcock). 



Lokoja, Nupe, etc, in Nigeria, also known from Sierra Leone, 

 Gold Coast, Chari Central, Tanganyika Colony (G.E. Africa), 

 Transvaal, Natal and widel}^ spread in tropical and sub-tropical 

 regions. 



Seed eaten by poorer classes in India, where the grass is also 

 generally considered a very nutritious fodder for cattle (Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. India — Eleimne aegyptiaca) ; a good horse fodder 

 Hausaland (Dalziel, Hausa Bot. Voc. p. 42) ; a forage plant 

 preferred by cattle, W. Africa (Chevaher, Journ. d' Agric. Trop. 

 1911, p. 97"; Bull. Bur. Agric. Int. Rome, June 1911, p. 1318); 

 liked by stock (Wood, Natal PL t. 441); valued as a fodder on 

 account of its high milk-yielding properties and in times of 

 famine the grain is used for human food, German East Africa 

 (Der Pflanzer, 1911, p. 667; Bull. Imp. Inst. 1912, p. 146) " The 

 poorer starved people gather the ears of this grass, dry them in the 

 sun, beat out the grain (extremely small) on surface rocks, grind 

 it and make the flour into stirabout eaten wdth mushrooms ** 

 in Unyanyenibe, Central Africa (Grant, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 

 p. 173). Used for maldng lawns in Natal (Wood, Ic). 



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