Tab. 7024. 



PEUMUS FRAGRANS. 



Native of Chili. 



Nat. Ord. Mokimiace^:. 

 Genus Peumus, Pers. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. PL vol. iii. p. 141.) 



Peumus fragrans, Pers. Ench. vol. ii. p. 269. 



P. BoUu, Molini Sagq. St or. Nat. CAil.185, 350; Few'!?. Ohs. PI Peru«. vol iii. 



p. 11, t, 6 ; Benih. Sf Trim. Med. PI. vol. iii. p. 217. 



Boldea fragrans, Juss. in Ann. Mm. vol. xiv. p. 134; Tulasne Monogr. Monim. 

 p. 410. 



Boldoa fragrans, Lindl. in Bot. Beg. 1845, t hi ; C. Gay Fl. Chil. vol. v. p. 353. 



Bnizia fragrans, Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Peruv. Prodr. p. 135, t. 39 ; Syst. FL Peruv. 



p. 266 -268 ; Endlieh. Ieonogr. f. 21 ; Lindl. Veg. Kingd. p. 298, f. 205. 



A plant of no beauty, but worthy of cultivation from the 

 delicious fragrance of its foliage and wood, and much 

 valued in Chili for the manufacture of charcoal, which is 

 regarded as superior to that made of any other wood of 

 the country. The aromatic fruits are eaten ; they attain 

 the size and appearance of black haws, and the bark is 

 used for tanning purposes. It has a wide range on the 

 Chilian coast and interior, from Concepcion to Valdivia. 

 The dried leaves and twigs have been introduced into 

 some pharmacopoeias, being a reputed stimulant and pro- 

 moter of digestion, acting principally on the liver. 



Peumus fragrans forms a bushy small tree in the 

 Temperate House at Kew, flowering in the winter months ; 

 the male plant alone is in cultivation. 



Desce. An evergreen shrub or small tree, attaining a 

 height of twenty feet, branches slender, spreading. Leaves 

 in opposite decussating pairs, one to tw T o inches long, very 

 shortly petioled, broadly elliptic-oblong, obtuse, deep 

 green, glandular, scaberulous on the upper surface, pale 

 on the lower with raised reticulating nerves. Mowers 

 white, in small terminal sessile cymes, dioecious, green. 

 Male fl. Perianth half an inch in diameter, very 

 broadly campanulate, ten to twelve-lobed; lobes imbricate 



NOVEMBER 1ST, 1888. 



