22 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
in a flourishing condition. Happy would it be for our colonies, 
and for the British West Indian islands in particular, if the intro- 
duction and cultivation of useful plants, suited to the respective 
climates, were, in like manner, encouraged by the British Govern- 
ment, 
The entire fruit in question is, like all the Lecythidee, highly 
curious: it is six inches and more long and about four wide, of a 
thick and woody texture, opening at the top like a box, with a trans- 
verse lid, from the upper side of which lid, a woody column descends 
to the bottom of the inside of the fruit, and around this column the 
large seeds are arranged. This and other species of the genus are called 
in French Guiana Marmite (porringer) de singe; partly because the 
monkeys have the good taste to show a fondness for the kernels, an 
partly from the use made by the negroes of the emptied capsules (the 
lid being removed), wherewith to entrap these wily animals, The 
mouth, it will be observed, of the capsule, is narrower than the in- 
side; this being filled with sugar and laid in a place frequented by 
monkeys, they grasp the sugar and by this means enlarge the paw s0 
e unable to extricate it, while their greediness forbids the 
opening of the paw and loss of the sugar. The heavy fruit of the 
Zubucajo prevents the escape of the animal, who is pursued and taken 
in this monkey-trap. 
Pucua-pat, or Patchouly. 
The history of this favourite oriental scent, the use of which in a 
fluid form has now extended to Europe, being, we believe, sold in all 
perfumers’ shops, is nevertheless involved in much obscurity. It is true, 
as has been detailed in our London Journal of Botany, vol. vii. p. 385, 
that the plant producing it has been described by Professor Tenore 
under the name of Pogostemon suavis, and by M. Sautelet under that 
of P. Patchouly ; which latter is adopted by Mr. Bentham in the 
Labiate of the recent (twelfth) volume of De Candolle's Prodromus. 
Yet this author, so learned in the family in question, does not appear 
ever to have seen a flowering specimen, living or dried; and of its 
native country he observes, * In hortis colitur ex India orientali ? 
orta;" and again, “ Species ulterius comparanda cum P. parviflora et 
