* The supply is somewhat limited in this maket, dnd the quali? of 
* leaves arriving here not, as a rule, quite satisfactory. The quality 
ost 
“There is ever a emand for leaves, as the 
ye 
p s 
5 & prefer io buy the oil itself, but, as a rule, distillers in the East 
* adulterate it. If a genuine oil could be shipped, it would fetch 
^ ph 
ive con 
* sell them on the market for 3 cin cent. commission, or to bu; uy t 
rta dud ijed to approval of quality. ; 
u think of any Siha: er a which i might, i 
v 1 oe be — to give 2 Lampen > 
above information will, no doubt, prove acc epable 
dents in tien Colonies, and it will, at the same tim: ully servi 
E eet uiry which has reached this értabsbonert mpi 
t Patchouli fion the Government of India, 
1 Simla, 5th August 
tter date 
In a let 
, the Revenue and Agri- 
ostemon 
xtended ; icularly, can Has cultivated 
Er the following reply w as addressed m idia Office 
x * Royal Gardens, i E January 1888. 
Eu. The true Patchouli plant is free from reco it is the Pogoste 
** mon Patchouli described and figured by Sir William Hooker i 
“ Kew m urnal of Botany, vol i, p. 328, t. Il, from. cultivated 
: p. 
í 
A ni * commerce, is indigenous in any part of India. 
. © him in this opinion, as. € in oe that it m ultima 
> p to Eos origina — 
5 « Patchouli plant: is pese c. known, thou; at p 
 * origin. It is equally certain. that it is abundantly 
e votes Settlements, The Patchouli of co 
e is, as 
concerned, an ie production. I may remark, he 
y pr. King, the Superintendent of the Royal Botanic. Garde den, 
“ when recently i in Ex gla nd, informed us that there is a pl 
that it does not etn but da 
did agree with the true pe 
of c càn be more 
