875 



>> 



U.S. Dept. Agric. Bull. No. 357, 1916, pp. 1-28, illustr. 



" The Production of Wheat in Egypt," Bull. Imp. Inst. xv. 1917, 



pp. 78-82. Experiments wilh Durum Wheat, Ball & Clark, 



U.S. Dept. Agric. BuU. No. 618, 1918, pp. 1-64, illustr. 

 "The Future of Wheat Production A\'ith special reference to 



the Empire," Bull. Imp. Inst. xvii. 1919, pp. 205-235. Wheat, 



Dowson, Dejjt. of Agric. Nairobi, B.E. Africa, Bull. No. 4, 

 1919, pp. 1-16; "Wheat iu East Africa," Kew Bull. 1920, 

 pp. 78-79.— —The Wheat Plant, Percival, pp. 1-4G3, illustr. 



(Duckworth & Co., London, 1921). Journal of the Ministry 



of Agriculture, United Kingdom — numerous notes and papers, 

 including Suppl. No. 4, 1910— " History," Stapf ; "Breeding, " 

 Biffen; "Factors Determining Yield," Hall and Russell, &c., 

 pp. 1-84. 



4 



OXYTENANTHEEA, Munro. 



Oxytenanthera abyssinica, Munro.; Fl. Trop. Afr. ined. 



IlL — Camus, Bambusees, t. 90. 



Vernac. names. —Gorsi (Sokoto, Hausa, Dalziel); Ganna 

 (Arabic, Muriel) ; Medera (Hameg, Muriel). 



Nupe, Sokoto, Cross River Region, Old Calabar, etc. in Nigeria, 

 also known from Gold Coast; Gambia, Sierra Leone, Togoland, 

 Cameroons etc. and widely distributed in Tropical Africa. 



Larger stems used to pole canoes, smaller ones as shafts for 

 apears, Nupe (Barter, Herb. Kew); stems cut into strips and 

 interwoven to form fences of the squares and villages, entire 

 they are made into handles for many instruments and also serve 

 for the framework of the roofs of the huts, Gambia (Kew Bull. 

 1892, p. 45) ; used for canoes and shafts for arrows (Camus, I.e. 

 p. 144); large-sized stems cut so as to include a node for the 

 base, used as " pots " for propagating plants. Old Calabar. 



25-50 



^h, much 

 hitherto. 



(Barter, Herb. Kew), 60-70 ft. high Mozambique (Johnson, Herb. 

 Kew) ; 20-30 ft. found in ravines in the bush, Sokoto (Dalziel, 

 Herb.' Kew; Hausa Bot. Voc. p. 40); " a particularly fine 

 bamboo rospTnhlir.or Devdrocalamus Hamiltonii of Burma, but 



docs not attain quite such large dimensions, that forms extensive 

 clumps, common about the Sibiri Stream, Gold Coast, never 

 found far from existing villages or old abandoned sites; the 

 ground under the clumps affords excellent camping sites (Thomp- 

 son, Col. Rep. Misc. No, 66, 1910, p. A{i—Dendrocalamus sp. ?). 



The senior Conservator of Forests of Northern Nigeria reports 

 that Bamboos {Oxytenanthera abyssinica) flowered profusely (1919) 

 on the Naraguta Hills and seed was collected to sow broadcast 

 on the more barren slopes (Thompson, Rep. Forest Adm. Nigeria 

 for 1919, p. 7). 



