it attains a height of four or five feet by the month of 
July, and continues flowering and ripening seeds till cut 
off by the autumnal frosts. Dr. Granam informs us, that 
he has cultivated both kinds at Edinburgh. Father Frvu- 
ILL¥E, in his travels in Peru and Chili, seems first to have 
brought this plant into notice. Domsry, in 1779, sent 
seeds to Paris, but they did not succeed ; nor are we aware 
that it was known in a living state in Europe till within 
these few years, when it was in cultivation first in Paris, and 
since in England. Mr. Lamserr directed public attention 
to it in 1834: and we are indebted at the Glasgow Botanic » 
Garden to Joun M‘Lean, Esq., of Lima, for seeds, which 
have increased most abundantly in the course of a single 
ear. 
: Descr. Herbaceous, annual. Stem erect, stout, much 
furrowed and angled, three to four or even five feet high in 
a good soil, much branched, the branches short, erect, but 
little again divided. Leaves on rather long petioles, espe- 
cially the lower ones, which are almost as large as the 
human hand, triangular-ovate, sinuated with prominent 
angles, almost pinnatifid, of a pale, rather glaucous hue, 
the young ones pulverulent. Panicles numerous, axillary 
and terminal, longer than the leaves, bearing innumerable 
small green, densely-clustered flowers, pulverulent from co- 
pious globular granules, which cover them externally. 
Perianth of five lanceolate, concave leaves, which scarcely 
expand, but at almost all seasons are connivent over the 
stamens and pistils, Stamens five, shorter than the calyx 
and opposite to its segments. Anthers yellow. Germen 
globose, depressed. Style bipartite. Fruit a depresso- 
globose achenium, with a slightly elevated point in the 
centre. al 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same laid open. 3. Fruit, enveloped by the 
Perianth. 4. Fruit (of the white var.) :—magnified. 
