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XXVII. An Account of a new Peruvian 
Plant , lately introduced into the Englifh 
Gardens ; the fever al CharaSlers of which 
differ from all the Genera hitherto defer ibed ; 
Prefe?ited to the Royal Society by George 
Dionyfius Ehret, F. R. S. 
Read May 1 2, r b ^HIS plant blowed in the Phyfick 
I/63 * Garden at Chelfea, and flourilhed 
there in great perfe&ion in the year 1761. It pro- 
duced abundance of branches, which fpread them- 
felves on the furface of the ground : thefe branches 
were greatly multiplied by fide ones, which grow 
alternately; and are fmooth towards the ground, and 
ftreaked towards the top, as the figure [Tab. X.] ex- 
preffes. Each joint isfurnifhed with many ovate- fhaped 
leaves, having membraneous ciliated footftalks. 
This plant was alfo richly ornamented with abun- 
dance of buds and flowers : the flowers being of a 
fky-blew, with a dark embroidered purple bottom, 
made a beautiful appearance. 
Thefe flowers are monopetalous, or tube-flhaped, 
having five obtufe laciniae, which expand themfelves 
exadly like unto the Alkekengi Indicum glabrum che- 
nopodii folio, Dill. Hort. Elth. The difference in 
both thefe flowers is only in the infertion and fituation 
of their filaments: the filaments of the alkekengi 
adhere at the bafe of the tube, but in this flower they 
are inferted in faux corolla at the fwelling of the 
tube: in both of them the filaments are alfo hairy at 
their bafe, and their antherae are diftant from each 
a. other, 
