This remarkable plant is a native of elevated and cold 
situations in the provinces of Tarma, Xauxa, Huarochesi, 
Canta, and Humalies, where it grows among rubbish; it is 
also found near the village of La Cruz, and on the banks 
of the river Mayo, between Almaguer and Pasto in New 
Grenada, where it was found by Humboldt and Donpland, 
at nearly 7000 feet above the sea. It begins to flower in 
June and ceases in November. By the Peruvians it is called 
Floripondio encarnado and Campanillas encarnadas ; by the 
Columbians Bovochevo. Its stature varies from 10 to 20 feet, 
the stem being generally undivided and terminated by a 
roundish leafy head. The flowers are either a bright 
yellowish orange colour, or the deep orange red of our figure; 
we believe they change from the former to the latter. They 
are succeeded by an oblong, smooth, yellow, pendulous 
capsule, which is as much as eight inches long. The seeds, 
like those of the common Stramonium, are narcotic in a high 
degree. In the Temple of the Sun, in the city of Sogamoza, 
there is a famous oracle, the priests of which inspire them- 
selves by chewing the intoxicating seeds of this plant, just as 
the Pythoness at Delphi received the influence of her god 
by chewing laurel leaves and inhaling a gaseous vapour. 
From the fruit itself the Columbians prepare a drink called 
Tonga, which when weak is merely soporific, but drank in 
stronger doses produces frenzy, which can only be removed 
by administering immediate draughts of cold water. 
From deference to the authority of Mr. Don, we adopt the 
genus Brugmansia; but we confess our inability to discover 
any ground for separating it from Datura, except that its 
calyx does not separate from its base, and drop off as in the 
commoner species of the latter genus. 
With regard to the specific name, however, we feel bound 
to preserve that first given to the plant in Persoon’s synopsis. 
It would have been better, perhaps, had that Botanist retained 
the specific name of the Flora Peruviana, although in trans- 
ferring the plant to a new genus he was by no means required 
to do so; but as he did not, we cannot perceive either the 
necessity or the expediency of creating a new name now; 
