24 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
in preventing contagion and prolonging life. It requires no sort of 
preparation, being simply gathered, and dried in the sun; too much 
ing, however, is hurtful, inasmuch as it renders the leaf hable to 
crumble to dust in packing and stowing on board. In Penang it sells 
at the rate of a dollar and a quarter to a dollar and a half, per packet. 
In Bengal, some which was sent from thence several years ago fetched 
eleven rupees, eight annas per maund. At times the price is much 
higher. The last investment sold so low as six rupees only per maund. 
It has not been seen in flower. 
*' None of the individual plants in this garden (Calcutta) have 
hitherto shown any disposition to blossom, owing, perhaps, to the 
species being so easily multiplied by division. All the green parts, on 
being rubbed, emit the peculiar smell of the drug sold under the name 
of Pucha-Pat, which is also very like our shrub, in the form, margins, 
and surface of the leaves. 
“I should have mentioned above, that Baron Hügel informs me 
that he has found a plant growing wild at Canton, which piney re- 
sembles that from Penang, cultivated in this garden. 
* Whether Marrubium odoratissimum: Betonice folio, of Burm. 
Thesaur. Zeyan, p. 153, tab. 71, fig. 1. (Marrubium Indicum, n. s. Bur- 
man Flor. Ind. p. 127) be our plant or not, it is difficult to say ; but 
it strikes me that that there is at least a considerable affinity between 
them. 
“ H. C. Botanic Garden, 6th of June, 1835." 
It is further remarked in Dr. O'Shaughnessy's Bengal Dispensary, 
1842, p. 93, where the above statement has also appeared :— 
“The plant has not to this time (April, 1841) shown any disposition 
to produce blossoms in the Caleutta garden. Dr. Wallich has been 
informed by Major Jenkins, the Commissioner in Assam, that a simi- 
lar plant, probably a voc m grows, in the lofty range of hills 
to the northward of Gowah 
I may observe, in cs fhat a living plant from Professor 
Tenore has been kindly presented to the Royal Gardens by Mrs. Ben- 
tham; but though it is easily increased by cuttings, and the plant 
flourishes, it has shown no disposition to blossom. 
