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Wallich supposes to be derived from Marrubium odoratis- 
simum. It is very common in the bazars of Hindustan, and 
is imported by Mogul merchants. It is used as an ingredient 
in tobacco for smoking and for scenting the hair of women, 
and the essential oil is in common use for imparting the 
peculiar fragrance of the leaf to clothes among the superior 
classes of natives. In addition to the above particulars, the 
following account of the plant is given by Dr. Wallich ; 
it was obtained from Mr. George Porter of Penang. 
The Pucha Pat plant is evidently of the family of Labiatce. 
It forms a shrub of two or three feet in height. The obtusely 
four cornered branches, and the leaves, are juicy and somewhat 
fleshy and covered, especially the inferior surface of the latter, 
with a great deal of soft pallid pubescence, which gives the 
plant a grayish appearance. All the young parts are densely 
villous. The leaves are opposite, petioled, ovate, obtuse, 
grossly and obtusely lobate, crenate, measuring from two to 
four inches; the lowermost on the branches are sub-cordate, 
all the others are cuneate and entire at the base; the upper 
surface slightly rugose; under surface pallid, with very thick 
rib and nerves, and largely reticulated veins. 
Jilhagi Maurorum. This plant is a very spiny under 
shrub, growing in Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Antolia, &c. 
It is the Hedysarum Alhagi, L., and was discovered and des- 
cribed by Rauwolf, in 1637. Tournefort found it in the 
Island of Tinas in 1700. The stems of this vegetable afford 
an excretion, of a sweet sugary nature, called Persian Manna, 
much used in Persia, and sometimes in Bengal. According 
to Tournefort, it is more especially around Tauris, a city of 
Persia, that it is collected. During very hot weather, there 
is perceived upon the leaves and branches, an exudation re- 
sembling drops of honey, which harden into grains ; the largest 
of which equal coriander seeds; of these, reddish cakes — ap- 
proaching to brown — are formed, full of dust and leaves, which 
alter their colour and perhaps diminish their virtue. It is 
pretended that it is necessary to collect the grains before the 
