296 ODOROGRAPHIA. 
Kew and at Orleans, but specimens received from Louis Van 
Houtte, of Ghent, and carefully grown by myself in a moist stove 
in London, never attempted to flower, although they otherwise 
throve exceedingly and agreed in structure of leaf and stalk with 
the Kew plant, and with Hooker’s description. An impression of 
a leaf is shown in fig. 10. 
Professor Oliver, of Kew, expresses the opinion that it is 
doubtful whether this particular form, which is the economic 
plant of commerce, is indigenous to any part of India, and Mr. 
Thiselton Dyer thinks that it may ultimately prove to have 
originated in China *. 
It is grown and much esteemed by the aboriginal tribes of 
Perak and Pallang, and is found at an altitude of nearly 5000 feet 
amongst the Sakais of the mountains, at the source of the Pallang 
River, far away from any Malayan villages, also among the same 
people in the Bernam, Batang-Padang, and Kinta Districts of 
Perak, and among the Semangs in Upper Perak and Selama. 
The Sekais of Batang-Padang call the plant Boon kalif; and as 
this is not a corruption or derivation of the Malayan name, it 
indicates its being known to them prior to their coming in 
contact with the Malays, and points to the conclusion that it is 
indigenous. The Malay name of the plant at Perak is Poko nilam, 
and the leaves Doun Nilam, which slightly differs from the Malay 
name commonly applied to it in Province Wellesley. Mr. Fisher 
informs me that there are three sorts of the plant, viz. :—Dhelum 
Utan or Delam outan, or Wild Patchouli; Dhelum Boonga, a 
flowering variety ; and Dhelum Wangi, which he cultivates, the 
leaves of which are called Doun Dhelum Wangi. The word Doun 
in Malay means “leaf;” Dhelum is either mis-spelt from the 
pronunciation, or is a Javanese word meaning the same thing, a 
“ mattress,” the Malay and Javanese word for which is Tildm; 
Wangi means “fragrant” and “healthy.” The three words 
jointly mean that the natives stuff their beds and pillows with the 
fragrant herb, and believe in its health-giving properties. The 
word Utan means ‘jungle,’ “forest,” “ wild,” and “ unculti- 
vated,”’ consequently the Tildm or Dhelum outan is the uncultivated 
plant. Bonga or Boonga in Malay means “ flowering,” and was 
also applied by Rumphius to the Cananga tree; he calls it 
“* Bonga Cananga.” 
* Kew Bulletin, March 1888, p. 75. 
