708 Flora of the Malayan Peninstila. 



medium-green above, pale-green beneath, ovate-acute ; base wide- 

 cuneate, entire ; margin elsewhere crenate, each lobule again crenulate; 

 2-5 to 4 in. long, 1-5 to 2-75 in. wide ; petiole 1 to 1-5 in. long, very 

 sparingly puberulous. Floxvers in slender, simple or paniculately 

 branching terminal spikes 3 to 6 in. long ; whorls at the base -5 to '75 in. 

 apart, gradually more approximate upwards, but those near the apex 

 still -2 to '15 in. apart; whorls -4 in. across; bracts elliptic, acute, 

 sparingly puberulous, -15 in. long or less. Calyx -15 in. (in fruit -2 in.) 

 long, sparingly pubescent externally ; teeth triangular, one-third the 

 length of the tube, equal and similar. Corolla -2 in. long, glabrous 

 externally save for a few hairs on margin of lower lip. Filaments 

 exserted, almost straight, all bearded. Style-arms short, only one- 

 tenth to one-eighth the length of the style. Nutlets wide-ovate, '02 in. 

 long, dark-brown with a paler base, smooth. Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 

 154, and in DC. Prodr. XII. 153 ; Wight Ic. t. 1440; Cooke Fl. Bomb. 

 II. 455. P. Patclimoli, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Addend. 66 {not 

 P. Patchouly, Pellet.). P. Patchouli, Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 633 {not 

 P. Patchouly, Pellet.). 



SiNGAPOEE : G. Thomson. Malacca : Griffith, 3966 ! Selangoe : 

 Eawang, Biclley 7603 ! Cultivated or as an escape from cultivation. — 

 DiSTEiB. India and Ceylon; where, however, it is only knowTi as a 

 cultivated plant or as an escape from cultivation. 



This, the Indian " Patchouli." if one may judge from the specimens communi- 

 cated, is the plant first introduced to our area on account of its peculiar scent. There 

 is nothing to indicate whether it was formerly at all extensively cultivated ; it does 

 not appear to he so now. 



2. PoGOSTEMON Cablin, Benth. in DC. Prodr. XII. 156 (1848). An 

 erect, rather stout, branching undershrub, 2 to 5 ft. high. Steins and 

 branches stout, distinctly swollen under the nodes, densely hoar^-- 

 pubescent. Leaves opposite, herbaceous, closely densely pubescent on 

 both surfaces, especially beneath, dark-green above, medium-green 

 below, ovate-acute ; base shortly cuneate or subtruncate, entire ; 

 margin elsewhere usually deeply lobate, the lobes crenate ; rarely 

 mai'gin simply crenate or in upper leaves almost entire ; 3 to 4 in. long, 

 2 to 3 in. wide ; petiole 1-5 to 2-5 in. long, densely hoary-pubescent. 

 Flowers in stout simple spikes terminating the stem and the branches, 

 1'5 to 4 in. long, the lowest whorl sometimes "5 to -6 in. remote from 

 the next, the rest or all the whorls closely aggregate ; whorls -75 in. 

 across or more ; bracts elliptic, acute, densely pubescent, -2 to -35 in. 

 long. Calyx "2 in. (in fruit -25 in.) long, densely pubescent, especially 

 along the nerves ; teeth triangular, one-third the length of the tube, 



