Culms in compact fascicles, erect, simple, wiry ; basal sheaths 
more persistent than in the two preceding species ; blades 
G-10 mm. wide, somewhat firm, rich green above, glaucescent 
below, often suffused with purple near the base and along 
the edges ; panicle stiff, dense, 6-10 cm. long ; spathes more 
herbaceous than in the other species, often with rudimentary 
blades, purplish-brown with yellowish scarious edges ; spike- 
lets usually green in the lower, purple in the upper part . . 
10. 0. po 
Vetiveria. — Racemes panicled, peduncled, very slender, many- 
jointed, in copious whorls on the nodes of an often long rhachis ; 
joints and pedicels filiform, glabrous or nearly so ; spikelets 
laterally or dorsally slightly compressed ; the sessile all alike, 
awned or awnless ; first (outer) glume muricate or smooth. 
Innovations forming dense, compressed bunches of leaves 
with equitant sheaths and keeled, fat (almost spongy) blades 
which are more or less V-shaped in cross section ; spikelets 
muticous, muricate 11. V. zizanioides. 
Andropogon Sect. Amphilophis.— Racemes fascicled or 
panicled, peduncled, slender, few- to many-jointed; joints and 
pedicels linear, flat, usually translucent between the thickened 
edges ; all the sessile spikelets alike, dorsally compressed, awned. 
Innovations forming dense bunches of leaves with com- 
pressed, smooth sheaths and flat, bright green, somewhat 
strongly-nerved leaves, 4-8 mm. wide; racemes densely 
fascicled, often very numerous, 2*5-5 cm. long, flexuous, 
purplish, silky ; sessile spikelets villous below the middle 
with a silky callus 1%. A. odoratus. 
1. Cymbopogon Schoenanthus, Spreng. Pug. vol. ii. (1815), p. 15, 
non bchult,— Transferred from Andropogon (A. Schomanthus,L.). 
pESCRlPTiONS.-Hackel, Androp. p. 598 (under Andropogon 
lamger), and Hook, f., PI. Brit. Ind., vol. vii., p. 203 (under 
A. Iimrancusa, subsp. laniger) ; for the anatomy of the leaves, 
fnZ f aV ^ nn ' SC - X:U - "'''• VL V " 1 ' *•' P- 355 ' tab ' 18 < fi ^ 2 
(under A. lanigerum), and Hoehnel in Sitzber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 
1^™*' ^^ ** ( } ' PP ' 6 ~ 15 ' Wlth tab ' (UndGr A ' Sch ° m ' 
^ I 7^W A ?° N -~" H00ker,S Icon ' Plant " **>• 1871 (under 
• trom a specimen from Jedda, Arabia, distributed as 
Cymbopogon circmnatus) ;-not very characteristic. 
Synonyms. 
mltT 9 Zi ar t iCU ^^ ex Steud - *y»' PI- Glum. vol. i. 
cJm'LL. 87 *~ QU0ted aS a ^°nym under Andropogon 
C. Ar 
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