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HeELIoTROPIUM PERUVIANUM. PERUVIAN 
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Clafs and Order. 
PenTANDRIA Monocynia. 
Generic Charaéer. 
~ Corolla hypocrateriformis, 5-fida, interje€lis dentibus > fauce 
claufa fornicibus. 
Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. 
‘HELIOTROPIUM peruvianum foliis lanceolato-ovatis, caule 
_fruticofo, f{picis numerofis aggregato- 
at corymbofis. Linn. Sy/t. Vegetab. p. 184. 
-HELIOTROPIUM follis ovato-lanceolatis, f{picis plurimis 
confertis, caule fruticofo. Mill. Did. 
ed. 6. 4to. Icon. t. 143. < 
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This plant recommends itfelf by its fragrance rather than 
its beauty, fo delicious indeed is the odour it diffufes, that — 
it is confidered as effential to every green-houfe and ftove. 
** It grows naturally in Peru, from whence the feeds were — 
 fent by the younger Juffieu to the royal garden at Paris, 
* where the plants produced flowers and feeds ; and from the 
** curious garden of the Duke d’Ayen, at St. Germain’s, 7 _ 
was fupplied with fome of the feeds, which have fucceeded — 
in the Chelfea garden, where the plants have flowered and - 
“ perfetted their feeds for fome years.” Miller's Gard. Dif. — 
You may confider it either as a hove or a green-houle . 
plant, the former is more congenial to it in the winter feafon-. — 
_ A pure atmofphere is effential to its exiftence, as 1 ¢xP& 
- tienced at Lambeth-Marfh, where 1 in vain endeavoured 10 — 
cultivate it. | Be: 
It is propagated by cuttings as cafily as any Geranium, 
and requires a fimilar treatment ; in hot weather. it muft be — 
well fupplied with water, and in winter carefully guarde 
againft froft, fo fatal to moft of the natives of Peru. 
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