SYNONYMY OF THE GRASS-OILS 



ANOGEISSUS 



LATIFOLIA 



Dhaura 



advertised in England under the name Halviva (perhaps a corruption of alui) f 

 as a substitute for quinine. [Cf. Brit. Med. Journ., March 7, 1891 ; Proc. Agri.- 

 Hort. Soc. Ind., 1892, ccxv. ; Kept. Cent. Indig. Drugs Comm., 1901, i., 148, 157, 327.J 



D.E.P., 

 i., 241-52. 



D.E.P., 

 i., 256-8. 

 Dhaiira. 



ANDROPOGON, Linn. ; Fl. Br. Ind., vii., 164-210. A genus 

 of Grasses (GRAMINEJE) by botanical writers usually referred to several 

 sub-genera. Sir J. D. Hooker (Fl. Br. Ind.) has, for example, accepted 

 eleven, but Dr. Alfred Barton Rendle, in the Catalogue of Welwitsch's 

 African Plants, gives only six (which practically correspond to as many in. 

 the Flora of British India), while he restores C't/mbopof/on, Heterop<>(/on , 

 Sort/hum and Vetiveria to independent positions. 



In point of botanical structure there is perhaps little justification for 

 the separation of these four genera, but as a matter of expediency (more 

 especially from the standpoint of economic botany) it is most desirable 

 that Andropof/on should be broken up into a few independent groups or 

 genera. This view was taken when the original edition of the Dictionary 

 was penned, and it is believed the majority of botanists, including 

 Hooker himself, would not seriously oppose the four genera named being 

 treated as distinct from Andropogon. He has in fact (Handbook 

 Fl. Ceylon, pt. v., 228) admitted that some such view will have to "be 

 eventually adopted." I have, accordingly, resolved to assort the available 

 economic information regarding these plants as follows : 



citratu*, DC., as in Watt, D.E.P., 242-3; see under f'ymbo- 

 citratus (p. 459). [Cf. Stapf, Kew Bull. 1906, 357-8.] 

 contorttid, Linn., and Uttterojtogon Hirtns,Pers. = If. cotitortus, 



1 . A ndropogo 

 pogon \n 



2. -4 ndropogo 

 Beauv. 



3. Andropogo 



4. Andropogo 



leftensis, Brot. ; See Sorghum Hale.pe.nse, Pers. (p. 1031). 

 irnrain-iiHii, Jones; A. Janiger, Duthie = Cymbopogon 



.J^caraneuHl, Schult (seep. 461). [Cf. Stapf, I.e. 354.] 



5. Androjtogon laniger, Desf.; A. Sehoeiianthus, Linn., Sp. PI. ; A. Jiraraii- 

 cusa, subsp. laniger, Hook., f. = Cyinbojiot/on SeJioenanthtitt, Spi-eng. (see p. 461). 

 [Cf. Stapf, I.e. 352-3.] 



6. AndrojiogoH Martini, Roxb, ; A. ScHoenanthus, Fluck. & Hanb. ; A. Schoenati- 

 thu*. uar. Martini, Hook., f. = Cynibopogon Martini, Stapf, I.e. 35960 (see p. 451). 



7. Anaropogon tnuricatun, Retz. ; A. squarrosus, Linn., f. t and Anatheriim. 

 ninricattitu, Beauu. = Vetiveria xizanioitleft, Stapf (see p. 1106). 



8. Aiiaropogon \tii-ilit*. Linn.; see Cymbopogon Xa.nliuz, Rendle (p. 455). 

 [Cf. Stapf, I.e. 354-5.] 



9. Amiropogon oiioratnfi, Lisb., in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc, 1889, iv., 

 123 and t. ; 1891, vi., ;68, 203 ; also Bomb. Grasses, 1896, 70 ; Fl. Br. Ind. r 

 vii., 177; Stapf, Z.c. 363. This sweetly scented grass, Mrs. Lisboa says, bears 

 the following vernacular names vaidia-gavat, usad hana, bhos, tambrut. It 

 is common at Lanowli, Poona, etc., and at the end of the rains gives a purple 

 colour to the countryside. The authors of the Pharmacographia Indica (Hi., 

 570-1) observe : " We have distilled the grass and obtained from it an essential 

 oil, having at first an odour recalling that of cassia and rosemary, but afterwards 

 a strong persistent odour of oil of cassia. Messrs. Schimmel & Co. noticed the odour 

 of pine-needle oil in this sample, and found the sp. gr. to be 0'945." ..." The 

 yield of oil from the grass was equal to that obtained from A. ScHnenanthii* ; it 

 had a deep sherry colour, a sp. gr. of 0'931 compared to an equal volume of 

 water at 84 F." [Cf. Gildemeister and Hoffmann, Volatile Oils, 299.] 



10. Amlropogon Schoenanthtis, Linn., Sp. PL; A. laniger. Desf.; and A. 

 ,firn i-aiiciisa, subsp. Irtiiif/er, Hook., f. = Cynibopogon Sflioeiinnthns, Spreng (se 

 p. 461). [Cf. Stapf, I.e. 252.] 



ANILINE AND ALIZARINE (see Coal Tar, p. 344). 



ANOGEISSUS LATIFOLIA, Wall. ; Fl. Br. Ind., ii., 450; 

 Gamble, Man. Ind. Tinibs., 346 ; COMBRETACEJE. The dhaura, dhduri, 

 dhavada, hesel, bdkli, arma, vellay naga, chiriman, etc. A large deciduous 



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