Digitaria horizontalis Willd.

Affords limited grazing. Grains consumed as cereal during periods of hunger; in traditional pharmacopedy used against vomiting. 

Vern.: shing-nsing (bafïa, Hedin 5); iete (Balanta); djadjua (Crioula); djadjé-lade (Fula); guarcam, pebbife (Manjaco).