Cymbopogon citratus West Indian

Oil of lemongrass West Indian (Cymbopogon citratus (DC) Stapf.)... 

Production By steam distillation of the tropical grasses Cymbopogon flexuosus (so-called East Indian L.) or C. citratus (so-called West Indian L.). The main areas of cultivation for the East Indian variety are India and for the West Indian variety Central and South America. 

Lemongrass oil West Indian Cymbopogon citratus extract. See Lemongrass... 

The conclusions drawn by the Imperial Institute chemists do not seem to have any great amount of evidence to support them. The author observed, some years ago, that West Indian lemon-grass oil decreased considerably in O tral value by keeping, and also became far less soluble. The freshly distilled oil from Cymbopogon citratus distilled in the West Indies was soluble in 3 volumes of 70 per cent, alcohol when freshly distilled. Since then he has had the opportunity of examining numerous samples of Cochin oil which had been tested before shipment, and which on arrival in Europe had lost from 3 to 5 per cent, or even more of their citral contents. In the author s opinion, there is room for ths belief that the recently found insolubility of Cochin lemon-grass oil may be due to differences in the exact type of grass used, and also in the conditions of cultivation. 

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