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WILD RICE MILLET. 
Oplismenus colonus. 
This is a small grain millet of little value, which 
is collected in times of scarcity to be employed as 
food. The plant grows wild in parts of India in 
sufficient plenty for this purpose. The grain is 
nsually deprived of its husk, and then used as rice. 
It is one of the best grasses for forage, and is 
common throughout the Punjab plains. Bellew 
mentions that in the Peshawar Valley this seed is 
especially eaten during Hindu fasts, and that it, with 
milk, for thirty years constituted the chief food of 
the Akhoond of Swät, for whom it was cultivated. 
2.226. Panicum colonum. Ganjam. (India Museum, 
London.) 
SAWA MILLET. 
Oplismenus frumentaceus. 
Dr. Roxburgh says briefly of this plant that he 
had “ only found it in a state of eultivation. It 
“ delights in a light, tolerably dry rieh soil; the 
“ same ground yields two erops, between the first of 
“ the rains in June and July, and the end of Janu- 
“ ary. The seed is wholesome and nourishing; it 
“ is an artiele of diet, particularly amongst the lower 
“ classes of the natives, and yields about fifty-fold 
“ in a good soil. Cattle are fond of it.” 
In a letter to the Agri. Hort. Soc. of India, Mr. 
C. B. Taylor strongly recommends this grain as 
being much cheaper and better than maize. It is 
“ light and easy of digestion, it makes very palat- 
“ able puddings, which children appear more paidial 
“ to than those made of rice, to which grain, when 
“ boiled, it bears a striking resemblance, both as to 
“ taste and in appearance.” This grain is much 
less cultivated than Panicum miliaceum. 
6,059, 6,066. Sawan. Dbarwar. 
6,167- Sawan. Nass ick. 
6,181. Sawan. Beigaum. 
6,243-4, 6,253-6. Sawan. Mr. V. Fretwell. Khan- 
deish. 
6,277. Sawan. Ahmednuggar. 
394. Sawan. Vynd Gool Mahomed Shah, Sehwan, 
Sind. 
3,710. Sawan. H.H. the Maharajah of Benares. 
3,344 Sawan. Amritsur. 
3,578, 3,605. Sawan. Oude. 
2.227. Sawan. India Museum. 
KODA MILLET. 
Paspalum scrobiculatum. 
This is a very common and cheap grain, grown to 
some extent in most parts of India. Dr. Roxburgh 
writes of it that it delights in a light dry loose soil, 
but will grcw in a very harren one. It is cultivated 
in the rainy season. The seed is an artiele of diet 
with the Hindoos, particularly with those who in- 
habit the mountains, and most harren parts of the 
country, for it is in such countries only where it is 
cultivated, it being an unprofitable erop, and not 
sown where others more beneficial will thrive. It is 
a very common belief that this grain is unwhole- 
some; this was mentioned by Dr. Ainslie, and has 
since been often repeated. Dr. Gibson says that “ a 
“ variety of it called Hurreek often induces tempo- 
“ rary insanity, and spasms, &c. Large numbers of 
“ people may be occasionally be seen thus affected.” 
Dr. Stewart writes that in the Bijnour district this 
grain “ is said to produce cholera and vomiting, and 
“ I find that some authors mention a similar phe- 
“ nomenon as occasionally occurring in all three 
“ presidencies. The natives generally hold that with 
“ the ordinary koda, and undistinguishable from it, 
“ grows a kind they call majna or majni, which pro- 
“ duces the above effects, but it has been with greater 
“ probability suggested, that these depend on the use 
“ of the new grain under certain conditions. These 
“ results, however, cannot be common here, as a very 
“ intelligent old gentleman of the district informed 
“ me that he had never seen a case.” 
964. Koda. Shelled. Nagpur. 
965. Koda, Unshelled. Nagpur. 
7,897. Koda. Maunbhoom. 
5,915. Koda. Kattywar. 
5,969. Koda. Baroda. 
3.342. Koda. Amritsur. 
3,375. Koda. Kangra. 
3,406. Koda. Kashmir. 
3,607,3,613. Koda. Oude. 
2,238. Koda. India Museum. 
RAGGEE. 
Eleusine coracana. 
This grain is of great importance to the poor from 
its hardiness, and from the abundant return it gives. 
The best method of eultivation is that which is pur- 
sued with rice, but it does not require a similar 
quantity of water, and it is planted on spots which 
the farmers have not thought it advisable to appro- 
priate to rice. It will grow on almost any soil, but 
the return will be proportioned to the quality of the 
soil and to the attention bestowed on the cultiva- 
tion. (Sykes.) 
The seeds are usually ground into flour by the 
handmill, this being chiefly a bread grain. The 
straw though tough is employed as fodder, and cattle 
seem to be fond of it, especially, horses, which will 
even prefer it to any other kind of dry forage. In 
the south this grain is very largely cultivated, and it 
extends north, over the Punjab plains to the Hima- 
laya, where it is pretty frequent as far west as the 
Chenab up to 6,000 and 7,000 feet. 
1,491-2. Raggee. Dr. G. Bidie. Madras. 
A dry erop and highly nutritive, the chief artiele 
of food amongst the labouring classes in Mysore and 
other parts of Southern India. It is usually stored in 
pits and will keep good in these for many years. 
5,972. Raggee. Baroda. 
6,068-9. Raggee. Dharwar. 
6,115. Raggee. Ahmednugger. 
6,168-9. Raggee. Nassick. 
6,207-20. Raggee. Tanna. 
6,301. Raggee. Kutch. 
391. Raggee. Moolo Warriram Tatta, Sind. 
3,725. Raggee. LI. H. the Maharajah of Benares. 
3.343. Raggee. Amritsur. 
3,373. Raggee. Kangar. 
3,574. Raggee. Oude. 
2,212. Raggees. India Museum. 
Eleusine stricta. 
According to Roxburgh this is more cultivated 
than Eleusine coracana. It is probable that the