1 well-flavoured,' and Su-gandha < having an agreeable odour.' " 
' Bhustrina ' is also mentioned in Susrata. Roxburgh* identified 
it with his 'Andropogon SclioenanthusJ that is * lemon- 
grass, (C. citratus), which, having regard to the origin and 
history of that species can hardly be correct. The same 
applies to the other Sanscrit name which he refers to the ' lemon- 
grass, namely < Malatrinu Rung,' or rather Mfila-trini (Stolz) or 
Mala-trinaka (Hessler), another term used in Susruta and inter- 
preted as connoting ' Andropogon Schoenanthus: Of other 
vernacular names which have been connected with C. Martini, 
I would mention here only two, ' Mirchia-gandh ' and < Gandh-bel.' 
Mirchia-gandh has already been alluded to. Its derivation from 
Mirch = <Japsicum annuum or Piper nigrum and <gandha'= 
odour perfume, is obvious. There is not much in the grass to 
suggest pepper, but the bright colour of the fruiting panicles 
might well be compared to the red of chillies. If this is the 
meaning, the name cannot, of course, be old. It occurs, however, 
wUh^S 6 T? W Sherif ' t Where » is mentioned in connection 
•(Wi? nn ^ eel ™ so ™^™g kindred. 'Gandh-bel' (given as 
m Gladwin's translation) occurs as a Hindi synonym 
ud^SS r t as ? ? as . tbe middle of the 15th centur y in the Ulfaz 
SaXt^S n V\? X alif Sherif t C'Gundheel' in Playfair's 
* Q^hW^i m ll e Makhzan -el-Ad wiyahj (1771, « Gundbel ' and 
aeem t\ >f Pnarmaco ^phia Indica). By this time • Izkhir ' 
- - nomen genericum with the Arab and 
p„„ a - „ i . . . " " u,ucu gcnencum Willi L H' 
leT^ZT™ m ' ' < kndh-bel ' may have 
S P mcl^l L 8e T al f , the fragrant Andropogons of Northern 
Roxm^lh F g - Ultimatel y a1 ^" the 'lemon-grass,' for which 
3 ^ fh" g ^/^l ng ' an l Ain8lief ^d it in usf at th 
the last cen u ; T T- U * in " Se &t the be ^ inning 
variant, f« c C o entui T- The denvation of 'Gandh-bel' and its 
SmZ-oLTj 8 , regards 1 the a PPe"ation 'Gandh' (gandha, 
^^Mtafw. 1 ^ me >. BtiUobBcare - Gandhi' by itself is, 
^r/?Khavn * U i mm ° nd ,' ' U8ed in the Panjab for C. Schoenan- 
SU P Flf^ T t ^™^° P . R ^-^ INDUSTRY. MOTIA AND 
are Pl mp al ifl^J 116 P™" 5 ]** 1 F^es of production of Rusa-oil 
pnr^nd K :i W J? ■* the Nagpur, Sagar, Jubbul- 
the wide distributEfthe R^ 3mere - ( ^ p,ltaDa ^ Cons de ™f 
the area of its ^nlSw- • USa " grass ' lt is surprising how limited 
the ^^ l ^^^g^^ reaS0D iS n ° d ° U r bt 
SdncVt^ 
!!^^^^ tt%onst^onTth n e°^ 
-ts^a&ssy*^- 
ffmann, Vol. Oils, (l 90 3), p. 285. 
