plate accompanying Blane's paper it is called 'Nardus Indica' 
Blane being of opinion that it was the Nardus Indica of the 
ancients. In lr.',) Jones* disposed of that theory, and also 
established the specific name by which it is now generally known, 
;'X'-"l'i in so tar as it is always spelt erroneously "Iwanmrnmr 
lne farst letter of he name as used by Jones is distinctly .!. not 
I. The substitution of I for J has altogether obscured the 
derivation of the name, which is from Jwara (fever) and ankusl 
(the hook used by the elephant driver to restrain his elephant? 
hence "fever-restraineT" as Blane and, more recently, Madden t 
W correctly rendered it. The grass was subsequently found by 
WaSh^T ? Urt T r ' ^ aS his 8 P ecimen « were* distributed with 
Wall,,. Is plants, it has become fairly well known Its further 
tiSSSfvS* 1 ? !red f *™^ syno^ 
. ' i'-"" 1 - ln !il " I J -tn.;:i I. u' same name 
,k, ,:,;"' ', '"' ' ' '. ) ' • {" "" \ '""l ] > probably also used for 
' ; v l'\ '~ ,] " > h r - Mtomanthus is, indeed, 
... .: '' ,1 Hackel has already pointed out not 
tainty. The area of O. Jwarancum 
■ • " outer lnllzone of the United Provinces into 
north-eastern P^il ' J?! -\ e 8t ^ ards as far as Kashmir and the 
the ne^hb^rh^?^^ abnnto * ^PP^ of water > and prefers 
torrents? 5^2 £ ac ^Hy grows in the beds of 
of ('. Ju-urxnnlL- }l™i i ^tthe distinguishing characters 
■«a/,*W, that is the 
~»»^^ and th, 
3. Cymbopogon Nardus, Rendle. 
{Andropogon Nardus, L.) 
Citronella Grass. 
at the Briti^M u iuS^n b3eCtl ?? able - Moreover, there is still 
specimen of < PenaHman'!: e ^eBent preservation, Hermann's 
Paul TTprm . • 1 ch the s P ecie s finally rests. 
C^t^rr \ n the Dutch *- «■■ 
and all his collect ions werP & 1 C r , olomb( ? between 1672 and 1677, 
town. This ."! !l " neighbourhood of that 
e ^^^^on^oi the specimen which, in 
t Madden m Trans, Edinb. Bot fL ™i } ' P >, m 
here also anoib ,». 138. Madden has given 
; Baden Powell, Punj.b^^^^™ ^troyer). 
