The road from Eastern Tura led through vast fields of millet, Indian corn, holcus sorghum, maweri, or panicum, or bajri, as called by the Arabs; gardens of sweet potatoes, large tracts of cucumbers, water-melons, mush-melons, and pea-nuts which grew in the deep furrows between the ridges of the holcus.
"How I Found Livingstone"
Sir Henry M. Stanley
The grass consists of panicum and several new sorts, one of which springs green from the old stem.
"Expedition into Central Australia"
Charles Sturt
26. panicum geminatum, Forsk.
"Southern Arabia"
Theodore Bent Mabel Bent