equally 
>wn in the Portuguese islands in the Bay of Guinea,* 
called«Capiinih'(;al.;l.i"( t n-i<l.'nrlvlte<'auseit originally 
came from the Gaboon), in the Cameroons,t in Old Calabar, and 
probably m other places in West Africa. With the Portuguese it 
also went— probably at an early date— to Brazil, where Li is 
recorded, in the cultivated state as well as semi-naturalized, from 
the States Porto Allegre, Rio de JaiK-iro. Minas, and Alagoas, and 
under the name of Capim de Cheiro and Capim Siri.f 
Early History in the Malay Region.— Having traced the 
lemon-grass to its introduction into the Indian Peninsula and 
its subsequent spread to the colonies in America and Africa, I 
now turn to its history in South- Western Asia, whence it came to 
he Peninsula From what has been said in the preceding lines 
it is sufficiently dear, and it has in fact never been disp 
MLi e T n T' S V a U1 1 1 ' 1,1 " ! '"Vi'i"Uy, is identical with the 
■ hl:i > " S< ,vh - ■ J U* t**o ighout the Malay region, is universally 
fw,'!V lS i medl ? in , al and kitchen herb - Its history goes back no 
tTJV H T' ni)lh "?' ! " rthe first European invaders. We 
wa * P Li' y from «" Philippines and from 
Eusebfnt nL I" fil 'f ha J f of theNthcenturv.- ' I . I.;:',",. Juan 
Mn^iL^^^i a S P anish Jes ™t in the Philippines, de- 
.. ' , ;,''''," '"Jimstukably under the name ot 'Tanglat,' a term 
(spel Tafitladlh le ^° n ' graS9 ' m the Ta ^ aI °^ and Visa y an dialects 
" Wit g tl h l ^ PaSS ^ e ' Whicl1 is worth W^ing, reads : 
-«?e7Ld S p pr n %t™So a r n d ifi H, in jr tB % de ¥° u8 odonr , *° 
until exuociPfi tnfi - : !s almost scentless 
"«» ! bnt this being done, it usually exhales 
*h^A^£i*F »» — to sharpen and 
Att-^ a Dutch doctor, who died in 
his death that +1iaTo m notes ' which were published after 
and in another pWn»? t fc S ? d fash t0 im P rove the flavour, 
** r "" Malay women diligently in their 
tions, parSar y in f^f S^*?" 1 * !t for baths* and fomenta- 
exclamation ^ ^uld SFti i!> WJth the 
possesses still more exce Et! I , ,} hl l hl ^ hl y aromatic grass 
the vernaeu!, ^es?" De Bondt does not give 
Utmcmofa ; withOrta's 
the uses of oenanthi), but his account of 
__!l_l!_f a ^^^ which some 
t SSffiS^ 
tPeckoltHist. imp. 37. 
p . M«rm, h B.U. ^•A.^aajfaog.VllO, «vH. (1905), 
'»-"^«^^-IW.L A O,,O« B «. e .p ll011 . yw)iIlblTL , pil «. 
