258 ON THE GENUS CNEORUM. 
et in stylum brevem protracta. Fructus, drupe 3 vel 4, 
aut abortu pauciores, dorso gibbæ, circa axim centralem ver- 
ticillatim suspense, epicarpio subcarnoso cum endocarpio 
osseo crassissimo coalito, 2-loculares, loculis superpositis, vel 
abortu l-loculares. SEMINA solitaria, cochleata, è loculi 
angulo superiore pendula. Emsryo cylindraceus, curvatus, 
chlamyde perispermo carnoso ad hilum et chalazam crasso 
dorso tenui involutus. COTYLEDONES lineares, crassiüs- 
cule. RaprcuLA cotyledonibus sublongior, supera, hilo 
conversa. 
Fruricuut parvi, pilis densis brevibus medio affixis vestiti, 
vel mox glabrescentes, cortice tenui, tenaci, ligno durissimo, 
lutescente, proprietate quádam amará, vel aromatico-amará, 
febrifugá preediti, loca petrosa ad oras maris interni magis 
occidentalis et in insulis Fortunatis incolentes. Rami crebri, 
virgati, ascendentes, recti. ForiA exstipulata, integerrima, 
lanceolata-spathulata, vel lineari-lanceolata, obtusa, coriacea, 
basi in petiolum brevem attenuata, epunctata vel ad margines 
rariusculé pellucido-punctata. FLORES pallidé flavi, axillares, 
solitarii, vel in cymulis paucifloris digesti, pedunculo communi 
cum folii petiolo connato, pedicellis sub flore articulatis. 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Extract of a Letter relating to the Botany of Chili. 
Valparaiso, June 1841. 
Many years have elapsed since I had the pleasure of 
addressing you, and it is almost as long since I heard from 
you, your last letter bearing date June 1835. My only reason 
for discontinuing our correspondence has been that I could not 
attend to natural history, my time being wholly taken up 
with agricultural pursuits, which, I am sorry to say, have 
been attended with little benefit to myself. 
This year, however, 1 determined to undertake a journey, 
with a view to collecting objects of natural history; and for 
that purpose I made an excursion over the Andes by the Pass 
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