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Росоѕтемох PATCHOULY, Pellet. 
A weedy herb with very small lavender-blue flowers. Tahan River, very far up, and 
a long way from cultivation, but with Justicia Gendarussa and Colocasia antiquorum. 
Also Pulau Tawar, abundant at one spot. 
I certainly did not recognize this as the cultivated Patchouli, but Dr. Prain writes that 
he does not recognize the species, and suspects it to be the wild original form of Patchouli. 
He says it resembles P. parviflorus, Benth., and P. Heyneanus, Wight, but is distinct. 
I have what appears the same plant from Borneo and Selangor, under the name of Nilam 
or Chilam Bukit. Now “ Nilam ” is Malay for Patchouli. This latter plant has been long 
cultivated by the Malays for scent, but under cultivation produces no flowers. In the 
‘Flora of British India’ a number of synonyms are given for Patchouli, and figures, viz. 
. of P. Heyneanum, Wt., Icones, 1440, and Pelletier, in Mém. Soc. Sc. Orléans, v. (1845) 
277, t. 7, are quoted as representing flowering plants of this; but it has for some time 
been very doubtful whether any of these are really the true Patchouli plant of the 
Straits, and it seems likely that the Tahan one is really the true plant. If so, a puzzling 
question has been set at rest, for I have not any doubt that it is really wild here, and 
that it is quite distinct from the other plants supposed to be the wild parent form. 
АРЕТАТ, Ж. 
AMARANTACEE. 
CELOSIA ARGENTEA, Linn. 
An escape from cultivation, Kwala Tembeling; on an island in the river at Kelantan. 
ALLMANIA NODIFLORA, К. Br. | 
Sandy spots beneath Casuarinas аё Sungei Meang. 
AMARANTHUS SPINOSUS, Linn. 
A common weed in waste places. Pekan, &c. 
А. VIRIDIS, Linn. 
Very common in waste ground. Pekan, &c. 
The Amaranti are called “ Bayam " ze the Malays, who use them for spinach, the best 
of which is 4. spinosus, Linn. 
CYATHULA PROSTRATA, Blume. 
Sea-shore, Pulau Tiuman. Common. 
ACHYRANTHES ASPERA, Linn. 
Sandy places near the shore, Sungei Meang, &с. 
