Botanical Name - Cymbopogon martini

----- Cymbopogon Martini, wats. ( Syn. Andropogon Martini, Roxb., Vern. Kashy or Kachi gaddi ( Tel.) Rusa ( Hind. ).

----- A tall perennial, sweet scented grass. Culms about 6 ft. straw coloured, smooth and glabrous. Leaves lanceolate from a cordate or amplexicual base ; leaf-sheath smoth. Inflorescence contracted panicles of many pairs or racemes, seated on a slender peduncles emerging from a boat-shaped bract, turning into reddish colour on maturity.

----- This grass is found all over the State and is well-known on account of its economic value. It is not a fodder grass yet cattle are seen eating it when young. There are two varieties of this species 1. Motia. 2. Sofia.