378 LabiatCP. \Pogostemon, 



Mr. Nevill informs me that this plant is used as a masticatory by the 

 Veddas. This is the species referred to at Fl. B. Ind. iv. 630. It differs 

 from A. suffriiticosiis, Wight, figured in Wight, Ic. t. 1437, in its short 

 heads, velvety (not villous) leaves and other points. 



8. POGOSTEMON, Desf. 



Perennial, often shrubby, fl. small, in fascicles or cymes, 

 whorls in terminal spicate infl.; cal.-segm. 5, equal, very acute; 

 cor.-tube usually rather short, upper lip 3-lobed, lower lip 

 entire ; stam. 4, very much exserted, usually bearded with 

 long hair, anth.-cells confluent; style bifid. — Sp. 30 ; 25 in 

 Fl. B. hid. 



Fil. with long hair. 



L. over 2 in. . . . . i. P. HeyneanUS. 

 L. under 2 in. 



Infl. lax, elongated . . . 2. P. rupestris. 



Infl. dense, short . . . 3. P. HIRSUTUS. 



Fil. glabrous . . . . . 4. P. REFLEXUS. 



I. P. Keyneanus, Benth. in Wall. PL As. Rar. i. 31 (1S30). Gan- 

 kollan-kola, 5. 



Herm. Mus. 35. Fl. Zeyl. n. 228. Ocitnum frutescens, L. Sp. PI. 597. 

 Mentha peril hides, L. Syst. Veg. ed. 13, 736 j Moon Cat. 44. Thw. Enum. 

 239. C. P. 33. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 633 (Z'. Patchouli, Pell.). Wight, Ic. t. 1440. Rheede, 

 Hort. Mai. x. t. 77. 



A large straggling undershrub, often semi-scandent by its 

 long horizontal branches, stems very bluntly quadrangular or 

 nearly cylindrical, swollen above the nodes, glabrous, the 

 younger ones adpressed-pubescent ; 1. large, 2-5 in., rhomboid- 

 ovate, more or less tapering to base and narrowly decurrent 

 on petiole, acuminate, acute, coarsely and very irregularly 

 crenate-serrate except at lower part, slightly hairy on both 

 sides, thin, paler beneath, venation pellucid, prominent be- 

 neath, petiole long, 1-3 in. ; fl. numerous, sessile, fascicles 

 small, dense, sccund, whorls globose, spike narrow, interrupted, 

 bracts small, one to each flower shorter than cal. and a larger 

 one at base of fascicle, ovate, glandular-pubescent; cal. ovoid, 

 segm. narrowly triangular, acute, connivent, glandular-pubes- 

 cent; cor.-tube slightly longer than cal., lobes oval, acute, 

 recurved ; fil, with copious long hairs. 



Moist region, up to 6000 ft., common, especially in the montane zone. 

 Fl. April, May; fl. white, fil. and hairs pale pinkish-violet. 



Linnajus much confused himself over this plant by following Burmann, 

 who confounded it with Ocimuin gratissimum. (See also my note in 

 Journ. Linn. .Soc. xxiv. 145.) 



Sir J. Hooker, in Fl. H. Ind., refers this with certainty to /'. Patchouli^ 



