294, ODOROGRAPHIA. 
is found wild in the Concans, also that it is probably Rheede’s 
synonym “ Cottam” *. 
Apparently there are several varieties of Patchouli. The minute 
botanical description given by Pelletier-Sautelet agrees, as regards 
the leaf-structure and habit, with the plant now cultivated com- 
mercially, and so does the description given by Sir William 
Hooker, but both of these authorities figure and describe the 
flower of the plant. The plant as cultivated on Fisher’s estate in 
province Wellesley does not flower, neither does the cultivated 
variety grown on another estate near Singapore. 
Fig. 9. 
Pogostemon Patchouli. Pogostemon Heyneanum. 
Both highly magnified. 
The Curator of the Government Museum, Perak, states, in a 
recent communication to the ‘ Journal of the Agricultural Society 
of India’, that ‘‘ Patchouli is a very shy flowerer, so much so that 
by the natives it is said never to flower, and Mr. Hardouin told 
me that though he had grown and bought it for the last thirty 
years, he had never seen or heard of such a thing as a flower.” 
Thus, it is evident that under cultivation it does not flower, but 
is propagated by cuttings; yet, in its natural state of growth, it 
* Hort. Mal. x. tab. 77; and Wallich, Plant. As. Rar. i. t. 31; D.C. Prod. 
xii. p. 153; Wight, Icon. t. 1440. 
4 Reproduced i in ‘ Kew Bulletin, June 1889, 
