PSORA'LEA GLANDULO'SA. 
GLANDULOUS PSORALEA. 
Class. 
DI A DELPHI A . 
Order . 
DECANDIUA. 
Natural Order. 
I.EGUMINOS/E. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
Peru. 
4 feet. 
June, Sept. 
Shrub. 
in 1770. 
No. 842. 
The Greek word psoraleos, signifies scurfy, and 
alludes to the scurfy appearance of the calyx or 
other parts of the plant. 
We were favoured with this rather scarce shrub 
by Mr Cameron, curator of the Birmingham Hor- 
ticultural Society’s garden, where it has borne 
winter exposure in a sheltered situation. It is 
noticed by some authors as possessing the smell of 
rue ; 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 of 
Chili as a common beverage. The dried leaf, 
when chewed for some time, produces a warm 
aromatic 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 wood 
should be struck, in sand, under a bell-glass, 
about midsummer, and the young plants should 
have frame protection in frosty weather. 
Don’s Syst. Bot. 2, 204. 
