Part 9

farafara, a white variety;

giwa kamba, a white variety larger than farafara, late maturing;

hannun giwa, white with a large head of grain;

janjari (Sok. = jigari, Ful.) or janari, a red inferior grain which makes red kunu and tuwo;

jar dawa, a red grain used for horses;

kaura, considered the best for horses, common in Zanfara; in two varieties, viz.:—kaura mai farin kwono (or mai farin soshia), and kaura mai baḳin kwono;

ḳerama, a red grain with loose nodding panicle (= bakin raḳumi);

maikeri, early maturing and considered one of the best;

makafo da wayo, a soft sweet variety, a luxury (dawar sarakuna);

malle (Sokoto West), planted in wet places;

mallen Kabi, the same as ḳerama;

mallen mama or mallen Zanfara, a larger nodding variety like the last;

marmare, a soft sweet variety, nearly the same as makafo da wayo; eaten whole;

masakowa or mazakwa (Ful. maskwari), a dry-season corn, grown in alluvial soil left as the rivers fall; (chiefly in Adamawa and Bornu); sometimes eaten whole after cooking;

wayo, a red or yellow variety;

zago, the same as kaura.

Burtuntuna = Ustilago sp. a guinea corn smut, forming a black powder in the ear; also called ḳatsa ḳatsa, and bunsuru.

gyamro = secondary shoots of guinea corn from the roots left at harvest; said to be injurious to animals.

domana, a gummy blight; (?Aphis Sorghi).

karan dafi, the red leaf sheaths of certain forms of dawa, used as a red dye.

kusumburuwa, corn growing up anywhere from stray seeds; sometimes popularly believed to grow from an unhusked grain and not always maturing. The stems are used for flutes (sarewa).

sambara, dawa or gero half-grown at harvest and left to mature later. cf. also karmami and yabainya.

=dawa dawa= or =dadawa=, a grass; vide =gyazama=.

=dawar kada= (=d. rafi=, =d. dorina=, &c.), Sorghum halepense, Pers. a very tall riverside grass with pith in the stems; the probable ancestor of cultivated dawa; one of several called “Elephant Grass.”

=dawo= (?Hausa; Yoruba ai-da), Tetrapleura Thonningii, Benth. (Leguminosæ); a large tree with thick 4-angled pods sold as a market drug in the south; cf. =kalangon daji= and =sandan mayu=.

=dayi=, Centaurea Calcitrapa, Linn. (Compositæ). “Star-thistle.” A thistle with long straight spines, common in fields, &c.; eaten by camels; one of the plants sometimes called “caltrop;” cf. =Tsaido=. Syn. =ḍanyi= (Sok.), and =surendi= (Kats.). namijin dayi, Lactuca sp. a species of wild lettuce; probably including several field plants of the Nat. Ord. (Compositæ).

=dayin giwa=, vide under =sare gwiwa=.

=ḍeiḍoya= (=ḍoiḍoya= or =ḍoḍoya=), Ocimum americanum, Linn. (Labiatæ); a fragrant herb allied to basil. (The name includes other introduced species planted near houses:—Ocimum viride, Willd. Fever plant of S. Leone and Liberia. Oc. basilicum, Linn. Sweet Basil. Æolanthus Buettneri, Gürke, &c.)