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MIRABILIS JALAPA. Common MArveL 
| OF Peru. 
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Clafs and Order. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIAs 
Generic ) Charaéer,. 
Cor. infundibul. fupera, Cal. inferus, Nedarium globofum 
germen includens. 
Specific Chara&er and Synonyms. 
MIRABILIS Fal/apa floribus congeftis, terminalibus, ereétis. 
Linn, Syft. Vegetab, ed. 14. Murr. p. 218. Ait. . 
Kew. p. 234. ae 
SOLANUM mexicanum, flore magno. Bauh. Pin. 168. 
MIRABILIA Peruviana. The Marvaile of Peru. Ger. Herb. 
p- 272. cum. fig. 
ADMIRABILIS. The Mervaile of the World. Park. Pars 
P- 365- 4. 369. f- de é 
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_ From Peru, its original place of growth, this plant was 
introduced to Europe at a very early period; the names it 
bore on its introduétion, fufficiently teftify the admiration in 
which it was held: it was well known both to Ger arpand Par- 
KINSoN ; the latter devotes a whole page of his Parad. terr. to 
its defcription and culture, with the latter he appears to have 
been perfeétly well acquainted, and even to have known the 
feveral varieties which we now cultivate. 2 ; 
It being a common praétice to raife this plant from feed, 
fome have been led to regard it as an annual, but it is ftriétly 
perennial; the roots in their native country, where they are. 
never killed by froft, acquire, like thofe of the potatoe, a pro- 
digious fize; the flowers, of which the plant is very produttive, 
open towards evening, whence, in the Wett-Indies, it has been 
called the four o’clock plant, and continue expanded till the pa 
