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green forests at Peermerd, 3500 ft., which, I think, is a form of 
. rubescens with more lanceolate leaves than the Bombay plant; 
and (2) No. 104 from evergreen forests near Colatoorpolay, which 
is, I believe, the plant of Beddome’s figure. I have, therefore, 
assumed it to be s so, and, pending the possibility of See 
more and better specimens, [ am calling it C. varians, bedd. 
of 'Thw. 
n his account of C. varians, Beddome also mentions as very 
common on the higher ranges of the Anamalais at 6000-7000 ft. 
and in Ceylon a tree with coriaceous dhe re es drying black. He 
identifies it with C. coriacea, Thw., which Trimen says is only a 
Ceylon species. I have seen no specimens from the Ana malais, 
but I believe it to be the tree of which I myself collected specimens 
at 7000 ft. on the Nilgiris, and which Sir A. and Lady. Bourne 
collected at Gundattu Shola on the Pulneys. Fyson mentions this 
(Bourne 937), but says it was probably planted’ Except that the 
eaves are rather larger, the specimens agree with Thwaites’s from 
Ceylon. 
VIII.—BOTANICAL EXPLORATION IN CHILE 
ND ARGENTINA.* 
W..8. Toru 
Argentina was first visited by Europeans in the year 1516, 
when a company of Spanish adventurers under the leadership of 
Juan Diaz de Solis landed near the Rio de la Plata in search of a 
passage to the East Indies. In 1520 the a ee Charles 
I. (better known as the Emperor Charles V.), s t Ferdinand 
Magellan (Fernando de Magellanes), a Portuaeede e, On an ex- 
pedition round the world aid in October, 1520, ‘he discovered the 
straits now named after him. Chile was added to the Spanish 
dominions, by conquest and exploration from Peru as a centre, 
in 1540. Among the first explorers of these regions are included 
J. le Maire, W. C. Se houten, J. Hermite, Diego de Almagro and 
Pedro de Valdivia. 
Some of the early authors pies more or less casually to plants 
and vegetable products, e.g., Azara, Najera, Oryalle and Rosales. 
Louis i a (1660-1752), Ga Rise a journey in South 
rica between the years 1709 and 1711, and with him the 
bokeaaral Pslratinn of our area may be said to have commenced. 
e made observations and conducted researches at Buenos Aires, 
Moaterident Concepcion and Valparaiso, and his results were 
published in three volumes with 50 plates (Journ. des observ. 
phys. math. et bot. Paris 1714). The work is largely a herbal 
and the nomenclature pre-Linnean. Frezier in 1712 to 1714 
visited Me: poe he lived 8 months), Santiago es 
Coquimbo. He is s best known as the author w 
was indirectly cy for the transfer of the name 
Pomme de Terre from Helianthus tuberosus to Solanum 
* This essay was written hoes Pe et Mr. G. W. E. Loder, and it i 
published: here with his kind permiss 
