bright green sawed scales, at the base of each of which is a 
small stipule. They however speedily fall off, leaving the 
branches to act as leaves by the aid of their soft parenchyma 
with which they are clothed in the form of bark. 
A native of Chili and Mendoza, where it is probably 
common. It is by no means so handsome a species as the 
C. spinosa of the same country, whose branches are loaded 
with masses of white bloom which must have an exceed- 
ingly pretty effect. 
It grows in common garden soil, and prefers a hot 
exposed dry situation, such as the foot of a south wall, without 
any kind of shade. We have not as yet heard of its having 
been propagated ; but it is often raised from Chilian seeds, 
under the name of Retanilla. 
