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ascending or erect branches. The specimen is evi- peduncled, congested on the ends of the branches: 
dently an erect branch of a very luxuriant plant. corolla tubular, deflexed from the base, 2-lipped ; 
This is perhaps too nearly allied to the following, but upper lip 3-lobed, the middle lobe larger, emargi- 
I have kept them distinct, partly on account of the nate, under entire, obtuse: stamens the length of the 
difference of colour of the flowers, purple in this, corolla: under lip of the fructiferous calyx minute 
white in that, and partly on account of the unusual upper much larger, entire, round at the apex, deflexed. 
feature of the marcesent corolla in this, deciduous Sisparah, on the western slopes of the Neilgherries, 
in the other. on rocky clifts, among long grass, flowering Decem- 
NISOCHILUS SUFFRUTICOSUM (R.W.), suffruticose, ber and January. Stems apparently annual, from 
erect, ramous, young shoots and leaves densely vil- two to three feet high, but the roots seem perennial, 
lous: leaves short, petioled, ovate, lanceolate, pro- as old, withered plants were noticed with young 
minently veined beneath, when dry deeply reticu- shoots at the base. 
lated between the veins: spikes numerous, long, 
POGOSTEMON. 
Calyx ovato-tubular, equal, 5-toothed, throat naked within. Tube of the corolla incluse, limb 4-cleft, 
sub-bilabiate, the upper lip trifid the inferior one entire, all the lobes quite entire, about equal, spreading. 
Stamens four, exserted, straight or somewhat declining; filaments bearded about the middle or naked; 
anthers terminal, one-celled opening transversely, style equally bifid at the point, lobes subulate. Herbs 
(or under shrubs ?), Leaves opposite, petioled or entire, dentate or somewhat lobed; verticillasters many- 
flowered, equal or hat 1, sometimes glomerato-spicate supported by bracts, the spiculea racemoso- 
paniculate, sometimes loosely approximate in spike-like racemes. 
Essentran Cuaracter. Anthers from the first 1-celled, sub-globose. The three upper lobes of the 
corolla approximated, the lower one declining. Stamens sub-declinate. 
Of this genus 30 species are enumerated, 23 of which are natives of India, and several of the re- 
mainder from the Eastern Islands. Of the Indian ones five or six are natives of the Neilgherries. The 
two here given represent two distinct forms, one has naked the other bearded stamens, and one has glome- 
rate verticillasters the other spike-like racemes, but in both the lower lip of the corolla is scarcely distinct 
from the u 
To this genus belongs the Putcha-pat before alluded to, as being so much prized, as a scent, among 
atives, especially Mahomedans and more recently in Europe 
The following account of the properties and uses of that plant I extract from a paper by Dr. Pareira 
no biddings. This lot came from New York, to which place it was said to have been carried from China. 
The dried tops imported into England are a foot or more in length. The odour is strong and peculiar; 
I cannot call it agreeable, though some others do, while many persons regard it as disagreeable. “It 
is somewhat analogous to that of Chenopodium anthelminticum. The taste of the dried plant is very slight. 
By distillation it yields a volatile oil, on which the odour and remarkable properties depénd. In Europe 
it is principally used for perfumery purposes. Sachets de Patchouli are sold in the shops. They consist 
of a few grains of the coarsely-powdered herb, mixed with cotton-wool, and folded in paper. Placed in 
c. they are said to drive away insects from linen, shawls, &c. An Essence de Patchouli 
her scents in the preparation of compounded perfumes: 
a it is used as an ingredient in tobacco and for scent- 
drawers, chests, & 
is used by perfumers, principally for mixing with ot 
for this purpose it is considered very useful. In Indi 
ing the hair of women.” 
“ An ingenious writer, in the Gardener’s Chronicle (1849, p. 645), on the odours of plants, remarks— 
‘It has been said, by an eminent French perfumer, that the odour of Patchouli was a ‘disgrace to the art; 
such, however, is the result of fashion, that a year or two ago no lady of ton was perfect unless she was 
enveloped, as it were, in the fragrance of this plant, the odour of which is very peculiar—a sort of dry, 
