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An evergreen tree, attaining a height of G-S m. Confined to the 

 central provinces of Chili, where it is found on the banks of 

 streams and in other moist situations. It ascends to 1200 m. in 

 the Cordilleras. A specimen in the Benthamkin herbarium is 

 marked "Aconcagua Ld. Colchester, 1832," which is the most 

 northern locality recorded ; and, according to Reiche, the species 

 is found as far south as Lebu ; so that its range is approximate lv 

 from 32° to 38° S. lat, 



According to C. Gay, the wood is very white, and is much used 

 for carpentry and even for cabinet-making, and the bark is 

 employed in tanning; Gay also states that silkworms eat the 

 leaves of T. dependens with relish, but that the Mulberry should 

 always be cultivated in preference for that purpose. The native 

 name is Patagua. 



Nearly every specimen of T. dependent in the Kew Herbarium 

 has fairly numerous subglobose galls on the under surface of its 

 leaves, of very different appearance to the Erinoum Crinodendri 

 tound on T. lanceohtta. Each kind of gall a] .pears to occur on 

 only one species of Tricuspidnria, and the galls are of such 

 trequent occurrence that they might almost be taken as additional 

 specinc characters separating T. dependent and T. htnrmhtta. 



ACONCAGUA (dedit Lord Colchester, 1832). 

 Britton P ) ARAIS0 ' °" min ^^ ; Phili m; King-, Rushy, 1025 (ex 



GOfo»/ AQO ' Neai " ^ Dormi,la > in tl *e Quebradu de Alvaradu, 

 O'Higgins. Aculeo, Reed. 



Arauco. Lebu (ex Reiche). 



159 HILI (With ° Ut Preci8e localit ^ Cr„ckshunk«, 111; Bridges, 

 is more than doubtful. rentiand, but the locality given 



to the article on thl^nnii th ^? unt ^ reference may be mad<- 



interest of giving the ^nTlr t T artlcl " Presses the further 

 -hich has hitfco ;S ! aCt °'" y aC, - ,Mn,t ° f th «* Hyn.nymv 



DISOU8BIOH OP THE Synonymy. 



It now remains to rnnq.dai. ±u 

 Pntagun, Molina, SaggioSim^ "^J 1 ' 1 * of <'>'>'*****« 



$<*• t, pp. 146, 2'J0- Chv n«l 2) ' hPl'< Hist.Chil.ed.angl., 

 Oavanilles states that the fi^'i^ f 8 ' ^ *■ l58 « % A-R. 

 Jfere communicated to h?m W 1? l ^T'" 1 "" of C. Pula,,,,,, 



«- «* that of MolinaZX*^^ 



