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where it was stated that the flowers were unknown to us, our own 
plant, in the spring of the present year, 1849, has thrown up several 
flowering spikes, which have enabled us to give the accompanying 
figure and the following particulars :— 
PocosTrEMON PATCHOULI ; 
Pubescens, caule suffruticoso ramis vagis decumbenti-ascendentibus, 
foliis petiolatis rhombeo-ovatis obtusiusculis lobatis crenato- dentatis, 
spicis terminalibus axillaribusque densis pedunculatis basi inte 
tis, calycibus hirsutis bracteas ovatas duplo superantibus, dentibus 
lanceolatis, filamentis barbatis 
Pogostemon Patchouli, Pellet. in  Mén. de la Soc. Roy. des Sc. d'Orl. 
tom. 5, n. 6 (1845), cum. Ic. Benth. in De Cand. Prodr. 12. p. 153. 
Pogostemon intermedius, Benth. in Wall. Cat., n. 2327. 
8? spicis elongatis laxioribus subpaniculatis. P. Heyneanus. Benth. 
in Wall. Pl. 4s. Rar. 1. p. 31. De Cand. Prodr. 12. p. 153. 
Has. Silhet (Dr. Wallieh) ; Penang and opposite shore of the Malay 
Peninsula (Mr. G. Porter). 8. Ceylon, Java; Bombay (Mr. Law). 
Authentic specimens in our Herbarium of P. intermedius, Benth., 
from Dr. Wallich, prove that this plant is identical with the Patchouli ; 
but since by accident the species was omitted in the ** Labiate ” of De 
Candolle's * Prodromus,’ Mr. Bentham waives the right of priority, and 
desires the name of M. Lepelletier should be retained. He is, indeed, 
disposed to consider his P. parviflorus (Silhet, Assam, and Saharunpur) 
and even P. Heyneanus (Ceylon, Java, &c.) as not really specifically 
distinct ;—thus the species would have a wide range of native locality, 
unless, as is probable, the plant be only cultivated in these several places. 
We think it unnecessary to give a full botanical description of this 
plant, which has been so well done by M. Lepelletier, in the memoir 
above quoted, and should rather devote our remaining space to some 
further notice of its properties and use. . Pareira, in the Pharma- 
ceutical Journal, for August, 1844, says :— : 
* Under the name of Patchouli, or Pucha-pat, are imported into this 
country” (only within these seven years, as Mr. Ellis informs us) “the 
dried foliaceous tops of a strongly odoriferous plant, called, in Bengalee 
as well as in Hindee, Pucha-pat. On the 27th of June, 1844, Mr. 
Ellis, drug-broker, of  Fenchurch-street, put up for sale, at Garraway's 
Coffee-house, forty-six cases of this substance. Some of the packages 
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