at Kew 7 ...„ 
apart from the 
IP as Andropogon Martini by Royle. This, 
.;•■ ■- - •;■■ ..-..U exactness of Roxburgh's drawings, precludes 
the affluui,, , ,. ffhian fi ig mer(>j v 
of bad draughtsmanship. How the confusion came ab< 
wLn ur rthe circumstances it is evidently only reasonable 
fcviSTfK '/'/.///// with the Roxburghian 
type in the British Museum rather than with the drawing. 
knotV^VT 1 /" 7 ^ 1 ' 6 Martin fibred the plant is not 
"above tb! WJ * hi J case m ^ing merely the table-land 
1791 anrn 7Q9 t Y f * ^ e fact that the militai T operations of 
BanLlnl I i W f G C ° nfiDed t0 the countr y a™™d and between 
liS Sermgapatam, fixes the locality within narrow 
Wa^"tet°Lf if,° f ^ b6Came , k — in 1824 ' 
has ever Jm, U " 'V* ^"""V"'/'"' J/^/ /////, and this 
-„„, th ii ei riiv rr r; ; 1Iy admi x ed - He ' however ' ais ° 
.7,,„,„„,../. ,»n Mnriini ^Andropogon 
type must hv P Wn! t 7 s no doubt ™ n S- Roxburgh's 
culm S 6mm fn 1 CU , from an unusually robust plant. The 
off, 12 mm Wirt* +1 ' cnu hmg, and where broken 
exactly etching the ^4 s0 ^J' dim^ See " "° """T 
hur our c<.llf.ft,.,i i -ii '■ • . ' ] " ;i '' '"'" are concerned ; 
respect a perfect rn IZ 1'° Ru ™-^ l>hmt, is in every other 
Jnrh, I i, '.""•'«]«„■. ,1 lt ,s„ that there can be no doubt 
identity of Andropogon Marlnu :il ,d , h, Kusa-oil plant, 
£ f ^^^ 1837, Royle referred 
Hindoo Me, 'is essay on the 'Antiquity of 
the 'Spikenard' "of di e an,t , had tried to P rove that [t was 
Paragraph endeavoured +TT tB > 80 ™w Royle in an elaborate 
classical Cuh.-.V'. ' ""' '""nstrate that the grass was the 
name 4n<W W0/l CnlT' and theref ore proposed for it the 
bigWyprol f»WL Although it seems to me 
the aromatic Cvmhm^^. ,. , " rt " ?MS aromaticus was one of 
J ^ubt if it was the K S WhlCh f ° rm the sub J ect of this paper, 
t0 gamine the question pff 8 " This ' however, is not the place 
-- lmhi.-i .:h«>u,'h he ,i,„,,l it extremely 
C 1 WO), tab. 97, fig « £°* , .^ of the Himalayan Mountains ' 
as extending .-,;/,,,, ' V P- ^ In d ii,,,| ,|„ ,„ a of the grass 
'''''^-Oan.lNagpore^Sf-l elhl ' and 80uth to between the 
have known it from the outlti!TT™ hat s ^prising, as he must 
from the neighbourhood of Zl ^ h ° f the Himalayas, parrieularly 
already been collected in N^ l w PUr and Simla ' In f:u '- ir h;ul 
Wa ich as early as 1820 Pa \ CP«>tebly the Nepal terai) by 
Wallich's specimens as 4^1, descri bed by Triniusf from 
excellent figure by t]/e 7 '' ?/ '' / ' '""■''»<«'<•» in 183;}, whilst an 
l__^J^_same^author| followed in 1836. The 
