594 
Hyptis spicigera, Lam.; Fl. Trop. Afr. V. p. 448. 
Ill.—Desc. Ant. viii. t. 581. 
Vernac. names.—Benefing (French W. Africa, Vuillet); Tené 
(French Guinea, Milliad, De Wildeman). 
Nupe, Kontagora and Tropical Africa, and in Tropical America. 
Seeds occasionally imported into this country (Mus. Kew; 
Moloney, For. W. Afr. p. 403); used for food in the same way as 
Sem-Sem (Sesamum indicum), Uganda (Dawe, Herb. Kew); 
oleaginous (Chevalier, Les Veg. Util. L'Afriq. Trop. France, i. 
p. 82; Scott Elliot, Col. Rep. Misc. No. 3, 9, p. 24; Vuillet, 
L'Agric. prat. pays chauds, xii. 1 (1912), p. 163); preserved for 
food, Madi (Grant, Herb. Kew), used medicinally in the Antilles 
(Descourtilez, l.c. p. 300). 
An annual, 5 ft. high, common in wet places, Nupe (Barter, 
Herb. Kew), Kontagora, (Dalziel, Herb. Kew), cultivated in 
gardens, Acholi country, Uganda (Dawe, Rep. Bot. Miss. Uganda, 
1906, p. 54) by the Bandas of F.W. Africa around their huts, sown 
at the commencement of the rainy season and grows quickly 
(Chevalier, lc.) and in French West Africa (Vuillet, 1.c.); may be 
cultivated much the same as Sesamum indicum (q.v.). 
1911, pp. 1-4 (Imprimerie du Gouvernement, Bama 0) and in 
closely arranged except near the base of the spike; corolla small, 
pink-purple (Merrill); but the plant appears to flower rarely or not 
at all under cultivation. Pogostemon Patchouli, Pelletier, Mem. 
Soc. Se. Orleans, v. (1845), p. 277; var. suavis, Hook. £. Fl. Br. 
India, iv. (1885), p. 634. 
Ill.—Mem. Soc. Sc. Orleans, v. (1844), t. 7; (P. Patchouli) 
Pharm. Journ. [1] viii. 1849, E 914 (P. Patchouli); Hooker, 
i. 1849, t. 11 (P. Patchouli); Piesse, Art of 
T ry, p. 175; ; . 1896, p. 
(P. Patchouli); Perfum. & Essential Oil Record, Nov. 1913, 
p- 370, £. 1 (P. Patchouly). ; 
