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than the internodes, hispid with bulbous-based hairs ; ligule 

 very short, membranous, densely ciliate. Racemes J-l in. 

 long, resembling a string of minute beads, solitary or seem- 

 ingly fascicled in the axils of the leaves, but individually 

 from shortened axillary branches. Sessile spikelets ^12 

 in. long, subglobose ; callus tumid, glabrous. Glumes 4 ; 

 lower invol-gume irregularly foveolate on the back ; upper 

 invol. -glume closing the cavity of the lower floral glume, 

 elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 1-nerved ; lower floral glume hyaline, 

 shorter than the upper invol. -glume ; upper floral glume about 

 equalling the lower, broadly ovate, obtuse ; palea similar but a 

 little shorter. Pedicellate spikelets equal in length to the 

 sessile or longer, of 2 equal green glumes about T 2 in. long ; 

 lower invol.-glume broadly ovate or suborbicular, obtuse or 

 subacute, 5-7 nerved, one margin narrowly folded, the other 

 with a hyaline wing, upper invlo.-glnme boat-shaped, laterally 

 compressed, the keel with a dorsal byaline ciliolate wing 

 (Cooke). 



Uses : — In Behar, it is prescribed internally in conjunction 

 with a little sweet oil, in cases of enlarged spleen and liver 

 (Ainslie\ 



1337. Andropogon squarrosus, Linn. /., h.f.b.i., 

 vii. 186. 



Syn. :— A. muricatus, Retz. Roxb. 89. 

 Sans : — Usir. 



Vern. :— Khas, bena, panni, senth, ganrar, onei, Bale-ke- 

 ghans (H.); Khas-khas, (B.) ; Panni (Pb.); Sirom (Sant.) ; 

 Vals (Guz.) ; Lavancha (Kan.) ; Vettiver ; romanchamver (Mai.) ; 

 Vette-ver, (Tarn.); Vala, khasakhasa, (Mar.) ; Kas (Arab. & 

 Pers.) 



Habitat : — Throughout the plains of India. 



Stems 2— 5ft., in large, dense tufts with stout spongy 

 aromatic roots, sparingly branched, as thick below as a goose- 

 quill. Leaves 1-2 ft., subbifarious, narrow acute, erect, keeled, 



glabrous, margins scabrid ; sheaths equitant, glabrous ; ligule 

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