20. Cymbopogon.] 97. GBAM1NE&. [21. Apluda. 



hyaline ; IV narrow hyaline 2-cleft and awned, •pale minute 

 or 0. Pedicelled spikelet male or nenter. 



1. C, Martini, Staff. Syn. Androposfon Schcenanthus, 

 L. (F.O.I). Sail tati, K.\ Naiiha dudbi ghas, S. ; Rusa oil 

 grass. 



A tall sweet-scented grass 6-8 ft. high with glabrous, 

 straw-coloured leafy stems with flat leaves 6-12'' by \-\" with 

 a rounded or sub-cordate base. Geminate spikes divaricate 

 or deflexed on a short peduncle from a spathe f- V long, 

 forming a copious narrow leafy pauicle. Gl. I of sessile 

 spikelet (except the lowest) channeled below the middle and 

 with a rib On the inner side opp. to the channel. 



Fairly common from Singbhum to the Santal Parganahs. Chiefly in 

 ■fcheytflleys near watercourses and on the northern or shady aides of 

 hills in tne forest. F1b. Nov.-Jany. 



L. smooth below, with scabrid margins above. Spikes |-f" joints^" 

 S-toothed villous, terminal spikelets 3-nate. Sessile-spikelet ^", keels of 

 Gl. I winged above j keel of Gl. II also slightly winged above ; IV an awn 

 i-V long, its very narrow base with 2 filiform lobes. Gl. I of ped. 

 spikelet 8-10-nerved. 



The source o* the oil known variously as Eusa, Palmarosa or East 

 Indian Geranium, i" the yield from the fresh grass is about "3 to '4 

 percent." Stapf. 



21. Apluda, L. 



Spikes of only 1 joint in copious leafy and bracteate pan- 

 icles; rachis or joint (sometimes considered as the thickened 

 pedicel of the upper spikelet) stout, - easily recognized by its 

 curious shelf-like base on which the lower (or sessile) 2- 

 sexual epikelet is seated and bearing a terminal male or 

 neuter epikelet. In addition to these is a third 

 basal and sessile spikelet reduced to an empty glume (usually 

 hard -coriaceous) faintly 2-nerved and lateral to the plane of 

 the other two. These three spikelets are subtended by an 

 awned bract separated from them by a very short internode, 

 the whole clustf r is on a slender pedicel. Pedicelled clusters 

 several in a fascicle with often small bract-like scales at the 

 base and some of the clusters reduced to single glumes, the 



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