1372 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANT. 
swellings ; added to purgatives it is administered in rheu- 
matism ; the flowers (calyxes) are used as an haemostatic. 
(Pharmacogr. Jnd. Ill 563.) 
Chemical composition. — From 56 lbs. of the dry grass purchased in the 
bazar we obtained the large yield of 8| ozs. of essential oil ; it had a specific 
gravity of ‘995 at 25° F., and rotated a ray of polarized light 8'0 degrees to 
the left in a column 200 mm. long. The colour was that of pale sherry. 
According to Schimmel & Co., the essential oil reminds one of the odour of 
Elemi oil. Its sp. gr. is '915, the optical rotation + 34”. It boils between 
170° and 250”, and contains phellandrene ( Bericht von Schimmel & Co., April, 
1892), — Pharmacogr. Ind. III. 564. 
1339. A. Schoenanthus, Linn., h.f.b.i., vii. 204. 
Roxb. 93. 
Syn. Cymbopogon martini, Stapf. 
Vern .: — Rusa ghas ; musel ; mirchia, gand bujina ; palfi- 
khari (H.) ; Aghya-ghas; gandha hena (B.); Ranus (Pb.) ; 
Rosegavat ; rohisha (Mar.). 
Ealitat Central India, the United Provinces ; Panjab ; the 
Deccan, and the Central Provinces. 
Root perennial, with long wiry fibres. Culms erect, from 
three to six feet high, often ramous, smooth, filled with a 
spongy pith. Leaves very long, tapering to a very fine point, 
smooth in every part and of a soft delicate texture. Sheaths short- 
er than the joints on full grown plants, with a membranaceous 
stipulary process at the mouth. Panicles as in A. Iwarancusa ; 
spikelets paired, but with only three joints. Flowers also 
paired, &c. as in the former species, only there the lowermost 
pair on the most sessile of the two spikelets are both male, and 
one of them rests upon a smooth, convex, callous receptacle ins- 
tead of a pedicel. Rachis jointed, and wooly. Calyx as in A. 
Iwarancusa. Corolla one-valved, a long black awn occupies the 
place of the other, which has two small filaments near its base. 
Nectary, &c. as in the foregoing species. (Roxburgh.) 
Mr. R. S. Pearson, I. F. S., F. L. S., in his “ Note on the 
Economic uses of Rosha Grass,” published in the Indian Forest 
Records, Vol. V., Part VII., writes — 
From a commercial point of view there are two forms of this botanical 
