328 PUCHA-PAT, OR PATCHOULI. 
GESNERACEX. 
l. JEschynanthus Chinensis, Gardn. et Champ. ; foliis lanceolatis vel 
lanceolato-oblongis utrinque aeuminatis integerrimis glabris penni- 
veniis, pedunculis axillaribus et terminalibus apice trifloris bibracte- 
atis, bracteis subrotundis obtusis pedicello brevioribus, calycis 
subrotati 5-partiti glabri € oblongis obtusis demum reflexis, 
eorolle tubuloso-subeampanulate 5-fide subbilabiate glabra lobis 
CRAS staminibus cd filamentis pilosis. 
Has. Hong-Kong. 
Suffrutex scandens, glaberrimus. Folia 24-3 poll. longa, 6-11 lin. 
lata. Pedunculi teretes, 1—11 poll. longi. Bractez 3—44 lin. late, glabre. 
Pedicelli 34 lin. longi. Calyx vix 2 lin. longus, glaber, valde reflexus. 
Corolla rubra (?), 9 lin, longa. Stylus seta. crassus; stigma in- 
te , depresso-concavum. Capsula 6 onga. 
Noir distinct from any hitherto er species, but belonging to 
the same section of the genus as Æ. volubilis of Jack. It is well 
distinguished by its calyx, which is small, somewhat rotate, and ulti- - 
mately so much reflexed that the segments press against the pedicel. 
uncles and pedicels, as well as the bracts, are very variable 
in size. 
Kandy, Ceylon, February, 1849. 
Pucna-Pat, or PATCHOULI  (PocosrEMON PATCHOULI) ; dy Sir 
WiuuiaM Jackson Hooxer, K.H., D.C.L., Director of the Royal 
Botanic Gardens at Kew. 
: (Tab. XI.) 
The dried tops of this celebrated fragrant plant, as well as the essence, 
or alcoholic solution of the oil, are placed in the Museum of the Royal 
Gardens, presented by Mr. Ellis, drug-broker, and the living plant is 
seen in the stoves. Since the notices we gave of it at vol. vii. p. 385 
of the London Journal of Botany, and at p. 23 of our present volume, 
cell: it is therefore very similar to n Ls Hoot shoe I find that there are sometimes 
three carpels developed in Aztonia ; and Hooker is correct in representing the cells 
as a, E ed, 
I have named the genus in compliment to Sir William Norris, late Recorder at 
Pe enang, the friend and companion of Griffith in some of his excursions, and to whom 
I am indebted for a valuable collection of plants from Mount Ophir 
