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H ; garoction, and fresh earth thrown over the whole renee the yield. 
“ If not treated in this way, T will cease yielding any c When 
k sies e old, it must be en up entirely, edindi in small 
“ bunches of roots, and Pa to a fresh localit 
“ (4.) We bought the grass seinen ig in local hats for ‘yoofing purposes 
za ia rope). before w we grew our own, and nowhere in our neighbourhood 
m I aware of its being Naikieated in any but ees foes aap by a 
vad es man here or there. It is not cultivated as a so of income 
“ or trade, so that I am unable to say whether the ie ae ie bought, 
“or at what t price. We got a small quantity of the roots originally 
“ from a Hindu village, but by fostering F spreading their cultivation 
“have now a considerable quantity. should be planted in a dry 
“ spot, where no water lodges, as aaa ipes has shown in one of our 
“ stations, where the water oozed up from below and rotted the roots, 
“ that it would not grow there. A sloping site e Seared the best. 
“ When we first started the mission here had to pay Rs. 4 a 
“ cultivate it ourselves. The grass runs to seed in the hot months, shortly 
“ before the rainy season, but these must be cut off and removed, or the 
“ crop will deteriorate. 
Besides a great variety of native names, Bhabur grass has, from the 
difficulty of exactly eeke ea its affinities. received an almost equal 
number of botanical ones. Under the name of Pollinia er topoa: it is 
discussed in the Journal of the Linnean Society (vol. xx., pp. 409, 410), 
and it is figured and described in Hooker’s Icones Plantarum pa 1773) 
as Ischemum angustifolium, the name Bree assigned to it pat Hackel, 
e most recent monographer of Grasse 
Rae sae ADDED, 1894 :—An Sneed de oe of ‘ ater Grass and the trade in 
it,” by J. S. Gamble, F.L.S., Conservator of Forests, School Circle, N.W. Provinces 
and Oudh, is given in the ‘hipendiy: Series of the fuze Forester, December, 1893. } 
LXXVIII.-BHABUR GRASS—(continued.). 
(Ischemum angustifolium, Hackel.) 
LE. B., 1894, p. 367.] 
A note on Bhabur grass (with a plate) was published in the Kew 
Bulletin, 1888, pp. 157-160. fhis grass isa native of India, and it is 
a eae i 
necessa r paper manufacture. Its merits were fiist brought irto 
notice by Dr. George King, C.I.E., F.R.S., Superintendent of the Royal 
Botanic Gardens. Calcutta, in 1877- 78. Since that time the grass ha 
y Seed of the grass, = own variously as Shabir. baii and sabai 
was issued to a few applicants outside of India. This grass (of which 
the botanical name is now Ischæmum angustifolium) first st attracted m my. 
