342 
is replaced by a closely allied form with more slender and more 
branched culms, usually from f-1 m. high, * 
often almost flaccid and very glaucous leaves and with 
smaller panicles, which seem to retain their glaucous 
merely turn strawcolour when mature. The structure of the 
spikelets is, however, that of G. Martini, and so closely does the 
Larnat^ grass m some instances approach the narrow-leafed state 
', r '.- Martim, that there would be no difficulty in constructing a 
in fi mtermed ? e sta ^ linking together both forms as 
completely as possible. Those transition forms are, however, so 
rar as 1 can see, confined to the border districts where the two 
grasses meet, elsewhere they are sufficiently distinct. 
o T i E r. R !: Y i HlST0RY -~ The 0ldest s P eci **ens of the Carnatic grass 
2**53??? are a s ? ecimen in the Plukenet herbarium at the 
British Museum and several in the Du Bois herbarium at Oxford, 
all of them collected near Madras at the end of the 17th or in the 
ZzLrZ* ° f i 5° l 8t \r iTui ' v : ''«' U is ™j probable that a 
• 'r ", '", I' k ' tr ;' r ^ H,rl„rt de Jager* to Rumphius, dated 
and o h y ;i 6 ?^; ll l° TS™ t0 lt « Contesting the view of Bontius 
the '& r , the , & > reh of the Mala ^ is identical v tl 
■'- SchMnanihum* of the herbalists and in support of his 
r have become familiar with the true and 
icularlyonthecoastof 
wffi?a&u72??o\5 a ?i?? e,,8ed wholefields ° f that grass, 
*hich there were whole fields to inn 
t Coromandel 
fid commented 
subject of the 
time in < Samn.i R«v™To ul , UUB uaiu « w e near ror ine nrei 
edited and ^LZ ^^n nth Book of East Indian Plants/ 
form the^nK?££ 2l5 ^iverf (1702). The plants which 
;(U(1 . )j)]h ■ 1-- u . r ?! ,|,or were collected "between the 15th 
and Triouetee wii'J • ' ^ the wa ^ s between Fort St. George 
• ComS:%Z^ d y h t OT S 7 ° miles off -" °^ of them was 
which the naCes^ere h aV e n S7n Wne W* ! "™ S " Schoenan l h ' 
Moors' Cam, D S reat Esteem ; sometimes in the 
eat nothing eL it if ' -? els ' and 0xen wh ich carry burthens 
near Colg^^™***" f ft high herejbout (but 
"™«»-d. -V" 1 .' s f "<' r 'n^h, [this gigantic 
tipb wV^r, „i" n J and t^ck as a Quill or small Ke^l ; 
J sometimes by the nativ 
deservedly 
5 put into their Decoctions for Fevers, 
the 'Comachee Slee^'with S ? tee ™" PetiverJ i<l,miii<'d 
red Inlt I 1 ??? 6 ! 8 '''''•""'"" lM '''! ,l >" 
1691), the type of which ^ £ ™ ^ 9 ' fig ' 2 o£ his ^hnagesta 
in Plukenet's herbarium— it is the 
I:i e S t ; o n i^^T(i732), p. 392. " 
I. D 12W ' S Seven to Book of East India Plants in 
