Sweet Galenas

"The Men of Gondor call it sweet galenas, and esteem it only for the fragrance of its flowers."

― Concerning Pipe-weed, The Lord of the Rings

Sweet Galenas were one of many names for the plant known to the Hobbits as Pipe-weed, the source of the Leaf they smoked in their pipes. Though the art of pipe-smoking belonged to the Hobbits and the Bree-folk, the plant itself came originally from Gondor in the warmer South. It was brought there from Númenor and from them acquired its common Gondorian name, Westmansweed. The more noble (Sindarin) name was galenas. The word galenas comes from an earlier form galanes, meaning "sweet smelling growth".