Tas. 7568, 
QUILLAJA Saronarta. 
Native of Chili, 
Nat. Ord. Rosacra.—Tribe Quitiasiez. 
Genus Quinussa, Molina; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 614.) 
QUILLAJA saponaria; arbor mediocris, glaberrima, sempervirens, cortice 
saponaceo, ramulis gracilibus, foliis sparsis breviter petiolatis ellipticis 
oblongisve obtusis integerrimis v. marginibus sinuatis coriaceis ner- 
vosis stipulis parvis, floribus polygamo-dioicis in paniculas paucifloras 
terminales et axillares dispositis, lateralibus masculis, terminali fertili, 
pedicellis 2-bracteolatis, calycis inferi coriacei tomentosi tubo brevi, lobis 
5 ovatis valvatis, petalis 5 parvis spathulatis, disco crasso tubum calycis 
vestiente et in lobos 5 crassos lobis calycinis adnatos emarginatos dilatato, 
staminibus 10, 5 fundo disci insertis hice oppositis, 5 alternis apicibus 
loborum disci msertis, filamentis subnulatis, antheris brevibus, carpellis 
5 fundo calycis sessilibus axi cohzrentibus tomentosis multi-ovulatis, 
stylis 5 stigmatibus dilatatis depressis, ovulis complanatis biseriatim 
imbricatis, folliculis 5 basi cohewrentibus calyce persistente suffultis 
oblongis coriaceis, stylis subventralibus stellatim patentibus, seminibus 
imbricatis compressis superne longe et late alatis exalbuminosis, testa 
membranaca, cotyledonibus convolutis, radicula infera. 
Q. Saponaria, Molina, Sagg. Stor. Nat. Chili, vol. ii. p. 175, 354 (1782); ed. 
Angl. vol. i. p. 291. H.B.K. Nov. Gen. § Sp. vol. vi. p. 236 in nota. 
DD. Don in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. vol. xi. (1830-1) p. 230. Lamk. Ili. 
t. 774. Poir. Excycl. vol. vi. p. 33; Suppl. vol. iv. p. 638. OC. Gay, Fl. 
Chil. vol. ii. p. 273. Kéhler, Mediz. Pflanz. vol. ii. p. 189, ewm. ic. pict. 
Carriére in Rev. Hortic. 1873, p. 254, fig. 27. 
Q.? Moline, DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 547. 
Q. Poeppigii, Walp. Rep. vol. ii. p. 52. 
Q. Smegmadermos, St. Laz. in Ann. Soc. Bot. Lyon, vol. vii. (1880) p. 133. 
Smegmaria Saponaria, Wid/d. Sp. Pl. vol. iv. p. 1123. 
Smegmadermos emarginatns, Rwiz § Pav. Fl, Per. et Chil. Prodr. p. 144, 
t. 31; Syn. Veg. Fl. Per. § Chil. p. 288. 
 Cullay, Molina ex Steud. Nom. Ed. II. vol. i. p. 452. 
Quillay, Frezier, Voy. South Sea, p. 118 (1717.) 
Quillaja Saponaria is a common tree in the hills and 
valleys of Chili, between the parallels of 31° and 38°8., 
ascending to 6500 ft. above the sea, and flowering from 
December to February. Its wood, though not procurable 
of any great size, is valued for its hardness, and is chiefly 
used for props in mines, and for making stirrups. Of 
greater account is its bark, which, when pulverized in 
water, foams like soap, and is used as an efficacious sub- 
DecemBesr lst, 1897, 
