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that is, G. Nardus. Pereira* (1850) seems to have been the 
first to use the term < citronelle oil' as equivalent to 'lemon 
grass oil.' 
Citronella Oil and Plantations.— J. Bell,t in his notes 
on the London International Exhibition of 1851, mentions " oil of 
citronelle, or oil of lemon grass." He says it is imported from 
India, "and is the produce of a grass, known to botanists as 
-L"'('-"f»>(j<'/i I'itruli.int and by some persons considered to be 
identical with A < h ^ • , < , t,,thu>t." In the Ceylon cata- 
logu.. ,.C the Paris Exhibition of 1855, p. 17, we find two distinct 
( /' h : (l <> l-"mon-grass oil, from < A. Schoenanfi 
(■->■< "KM.. lh ",1 uii.mml; n- it.inan.' .md .lmi.im the Lata' 
there is in the Kew copy an entry in Alex. 8 
' Citronella oi Andropogon." W. S. Piesse, in his "Art of 
Perfumery; (lfoo), p . 31, also refers to < Citronella^ saying: 
Under this name there is an oil in rht- market, chiefly derived 
from Ceylon and the East h,!!.- , re unable to 
uecule. In odour it somewhat resembles citron fruit, but is very 
minor. Probably it is procured from one of the gra>~ 
Andropogongenus, (;iadsr-.ne+ (187.2) and C. H. A. Wri 
.V-//V/,, 
) examine, under the name of • Citronella? 
lsso,i 
i fo^sed with G.flexuosus and G. ktratus by Bentley 
In 1883 'Citronella' was at last clearly confined to 
7 I ' ■'", "pjrt '° J' 478 '™ lb »- Since then it has f 
,111 lbs. in 1905. The area nnder onltiv.-"- - • 
SMEW* ? ana 5o,wiae,;; », v- ,- j 53* 
Ontakfc , Ceylon 4. W/„, ,„„ ,„;., iM ,„„;„,„» £o; . 6ome 
-■'• Citronella oil is mentioned as early as 
When U was ntrodn^-'': *V S '" " S "' " " ls and JaVa ' 
nncertah, 1 ." ^ Malay Peninsula and Java is 
book, « Perak ami thl m ? ?," V '' ry lo "S <«"• MoXair, in Ins 
iionrshinV l f S >' P- '*> "P**" ° f " the 
essential filf are ex?LtS •? ' "2£ Iemon grass ' from ^ 
.ced as worth mentioning; bnt in 1886, 
cnltivationofTher,w„ the lni »fficieirt attention which the 
the total area of cftr™elfa ra eT/ eCeiTe8 in the Straits ' and ta '•"" 
i^fe^wa^- dl , ~ 
J Gladstone in Jonrn Ph. J o X- ( 18o2 )» pp. 18 and 19. 
? Diet Econ. Prod. India vol i ™J?iI; - 
"* G,Wem ^to and Hoamsan, W. 6tU (f%0), p. J9». 
