stitute for that article, as also for dressing the hair. 
Both Chilans and Araucanian Indians attribute the 
luxuriance of this ornament of their persons to its 
use. There is a considerable import of the bark into 
England; and it appears annually in the trade lists, the 
wholesale price being 6d. per pound, and pulverized 1s. 
A detergent hair-wash is prepared from it, and it has been 
extensively used to produce a head on stale beer. 
There is but one other species of the genus, Q. brasiliensis, 
Mart., of South Brazil. 
The figure here given was made from a specimen kindly 
sent by Thomas Hanbury, Esq., F.L.S., which flowered in 
his celebrated garden of La Mortola, Ventigmiglia, in 
February of this year. 
Descr.—A small tree, thirty to forty feet high, sparingly 
branched, with ashy bark; branchlets slender, glabrous. 
Leaves one and a quarter to two inches long, very shortly 
petioled, elliptic or oblong, tip obtuse or rounded, margin 
entire or undulate; stipules two, small. Flowers about 
two-thirds of an inch broad, few together in a small 
panicle, greenish yellow, shortly pedicelled, the terminal 
in the panicle fertile, the lateral male. Calyz-tube short; 
lobes five, ovate, valvate. Petals five, small, spathulate. 
Disk fleshy, occupying the base of the calyx, and pro- 
jecting five lobes which are adnate to the surfaces of the 
calyx-lobes. Stamens 10, five opposite the petals inserted 
in the bottom of the disk, and five on the lobes of the 
disk; filaments subulate, anthers small. Carpels five, 
cohering by their bases, tomentose, many-ovuled ; styles 
short, stigmas dilated. Fruit of five obovoid, coriaceous, 
tomentose, stellately spreading follicles, seated on the 
persistent withered calyx.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, pistil; 5, ripe fruit; 6, seed -—AIZl 
enlarged. i 
