270 ON THE PLANTS CULTIVATED OR NATURALIZED 
six seeds are put together in one hole ; when the plant is to be used 
as food for horses, mules, etc., from eight to ten seeds, so as to give 
more stems. These plants, cut before flowering, are called « Malojo. 
This very extensive branch of agriculture is generally in the hands of 
immigrants from the Canary Islands (" Islenos ")• 
2. Vegetables. 
Brassica oleracea, L. (ru.capUata) .-The vernacular name < Bepollo ' 
is derived from repullulare, because the plants make fresh buds in 
winter. (So Diez, Etym. Worterb. ii. p. 169.) 
Lactuca scariola, var. sativa, Moris. ' Lechuga.'-It does not torm 
compact heads. 
Spinacia oleracea, L. ' Espinacas.'— Seldom cultivated. 
3. Leaves employed for various purposes. 
Nicotiana Tabacum, L. ' Tabaco.'-The immediate neighbourhood of 
Caracas produces very little tobacco, but in the province of Cumaiia 
a considerable quantity is grown. The once so famous tobacco o 
Barillas is now scarcely cultivated; the endless civil wars of us 
country having been very fatal especially to that province. ^ 
tobacco plant seems to become perennial under favourable circum- 
stances. A specimen, growing in the front yard of the former German 
club-house, in Caracas, assumes the appearance of a small tree- * 
stem is 2 inches thick, and over G feet high ; the crown resembles tna 
a young Cherry-tree, and is 15 feet in circumference. The same p 
dowered in 1866 for the third time. I have taken flowers and capsu^ 
both from the first and from the second bloom, and found the spec^ 
to belong to the variety /3. macrophyllum, of N. Tabacum, L. (co 
De Cand. Prodr. xiii. 1. 557). . .. ^e 
Indigofera timtoria, L., et I. Anil, L. 'Mil.'— Until 17 ^'. ndi _ 
latter species only was known in Venezuela. It is believed o _ 
genous; but this is at least not certain, there being neither W P»» 
evidence of its existence in the country before the Spanish onq _> 
nor is there any other name besides And, which is of unto ^ 
Eastern origin. In 1777, D. Ant. Arbide, then Capitan- Gener ^ 
Caracas, introduced the /. iiactoria from Guatemala, and a _^ 
rem lain established the first indigo plantation in the valleys o i^ 
(Yam/, Hist, de Venezuela, p. 47 note). The indigo from 
