11, The drug Astukhudus, nowadays Lavandula 
dentata, and not Lavandula Stechas. 
By I. H. Burxki1t. 
The word Astukhudus is derived from the Greek word 
oTixas or orocxas through its genitive otiyados or orotxados. 
the drug which comes into India in some quantity is nowadays 
Lavandula dentata, Linn 
Lavandula Steechas is found in the Canaries, Madeira and 
Portugal, Spain, very generally, France bordering the Mediter- 
ranean, Corsica, often in sheets, Sardinia, Italy. in the south, 
North Africa, Greece and her islands, not uncommonly, Turkey 
at Byzantium, Bithynia and Lycia if not elsewhere in western 
Asia Minor, Syria, and Palestine, where it is common up to 
3,900 feet. 
Lavandula dentata is found in the Cape Verde Islands, 
Madeira, ee Algeria, Tunis, central and south-eastern 
n, 
South Italy with ‘Sicily, and Malta. In the south of Italy it is 
doubtfully endemic, and is ioeperce seen in gardens. It is also 
recorded (teste Halacsy, Conspectus Flore Grece, ii., 1902, 
p- 568) as found i in Zante, but i is game probably not a native. 
essential oils been compared. This was done by the firm of 
Messrs. Schimmel & Co., and the result recorded in their Report 
tween the two was found to Ae — 
L. Stechas. L. dentata. 
Specific eenty at 15°C “94 926 
boiling a 180°C to 245°C 170°C to 200°C 
They both smell like a mixture of rosemary with camphor, and 
are quite unlike the fragrant lavender oil from Lavandula Spica, 
in this as well as in having a lower specific gravity. 
That part of the oil of Lavandula Stechas which boils off 
first, seems to be pare tg itha — similar to, if not identical 
with, the oil of Lavandula den 
The supposition which we Thies make that they are equally 
useful as drugs is backed up by one piece of information which 
