PSORA'LEA GLANDULO'SA.

GLANDULODS PSORALEA.

Class.

DIADEU’IIIA.

Order.

IlECANDRIA.

Natural Order.

I.EOU51INOS*.

Native of ! Height, j Flowers’ll! Habit, i Introduced

Peru. j 4 feel. jJune, Sept. | Shrub. | in 1770.

No. 842.

The Greek word psoraleos, signifies scurfy, andalludes to the scurfy appearance of the calyx orother parts of the plant.

We were favoured with this rather scarce shrubby Mr Cameron, curator of the Birmingham Hor-ticultural Society’s garden, where it has bornewinter exposure in a sheltered situation. It isnoticed by some authors as possessing the smell ofrue; a quality which we could scarcely distinguish.It is called the Chilian Tea Plant, and an infu-sion of it is said to be used by the inhabitants ofChili as a common beverage. The dried leaf,when chewed for some time, produces a warmaromatic flavour, not unpleasant to the palate.The roots are considered purgative, and a cata-plasm of the leaves healing.

Being a native of so warm a climate as Peru ,we cannot expect this shrub to be perfectly hardy;therefore, if it be intended to be left fully exposed,during winter, a few cuttings of the young woodshould be struck, in sand, under a bell-glass,about midsummer, and the young plants shouldhave frame protection in frosty weather.

Don’s Sjst. Bot. 2, 204.