Pogostemoni\ LabiafcB. 3 79 



Pell. It is never cultivated here, and, though the leaves have a faint plea- 

 sant scent, it is not like that of P. Patchouli j* the habit is also quite 

 unlike and the leaves are very different in form. 



The powdered dry leaves are used as a cephalic snuff in native 

 medicine. 



2. P. rupestris, Benth. Lab. 156 (1832). 

 Thw. Enum. 239. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 634. 



Stems slender, often decumbent below, quadrangular, 

 branched, glabrous or slightly hairy ; 1. \-2 in., petiolate, 

 ovate-lanceolate, slightly acuminate, obtuse, coarsely crenate- 

 serrate, glabrous or hairy on veins beneath ; fl. on short 

 glabrous or hairy ped., cymes small, lax, whorls forming an 

 elongated lax infl., bracts linear; cal. glabrous or somewhat 

 bristly, segm. narrowly triangular, short, acute ; cor. very 

 small ; fil. with long hair. 



Forests of upper montane zone, common. Fl. Feb.; pink. 

 Endemic. 



3. P. hirsutus, Benth. Lab. 155 (1832). 



P. rupestris, var , Thw. Enum. 239. C. P. 283, 343 (part). 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 635. 



Stems often prostrate and rooting at base, 1-2 ft., 

 branched, quadrangular or compressed, more or less pubes- 

 cent, 1. |-2 in., petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, subacute, serrate, 

 slightly pubescent on both sides; fl. on very short ped., 

 whorls closely placed, forming a short dense infl. ; cal. hispid 

 with long hair, segm. with a prolonged ciliate filiform tip ; 

 fil. with long hair. 



Forests of upper montane zone, very common. Fl. Jan.-March ; pink. 



Endemic. 



I have followed Fl. B. Ind. in keeping this as distinct, but find many 

 specimens quite intermediate between it and P. rupestris^ and impossible 

 to refer definitely to either. 



4. P. reflexus, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 155 {\\ 

 Thw. Enum. 239. C. P. 154. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 637. 



Semi-shrubby, stems 2-4 ft., much branched, stout, 

 obscurely quadrangular, densely set with reflexed hair ; 

 1. i|-3 in., ovate, rounded or cordate at base, slightly 

 acuminate, obtuse, unequally crenate-serrate, sparingly hairy 

 above, more so beneath ; petiole \-\\ in., hairy; fl. numerous, 

 on short ped., cymes small, deflexed or spreading, whorls 



* A figure of the true Patchouli plant {P. suavis) in flower is given in 

 Kew Joum. Bot. i. t. 11, made from a plant which flowered at Kew ia 

 184Q. 



