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morial, have been employed as efTicacious me- 

 dirines by the pli vsicians of the country. Among; 

 these is the cuUen (^psoralea glandulosa) well 

 known in Europe; it is coiisidered as a powerful 

 vermifuge^ and one of the best stomachics; the 

 leaves are used in infusion, and from their 

 aromatic taste are by many preferred to tea, and 

 occasionally serve as a substitute for it. This 

 shrub is indigenous to Chili, where it grows 

 spontaneously, and frequently attains the height 

 of a common sized tree. There is another va- 

 riety which is called the yelloio cuUcn, from the 

 colour of its leaves, which, like those of the 

 other, are disposed by threes, but are very thiii 

 and crisped, and, conglomerating towards the 

 end of the limbs, form at the top of the tree a 

 thick globular tuft that frequently causes the 

 branches to bend. Its flowers, like those of the 

 other species, are leguminous, the seed solitar- 

 and the leaves of both are vulnerary and very 

 balsamic* 



* The alhaquilhi, in Indian cidlen, is a shrub whose leaves 



tnilt an odour like tliat of the sweet basil, and produce a 



balsam of great etiicacy in tite cure of wounds^ as I Mitnessed 



in the ca-e of an Indian at In'(iuin, ho had received a very 



deep one in his neck, and 1 have uLo experienced the beneficial 



eiVects of it myself. The flower is lar<;e, of a pule violet, and 



<lisposed upon spikes, ai.d is one fd' ihat >pecies com{)rehende{l 



in the class of ihe i<;^uniinous. Another shrub, callcil karillo, 



is employed ior the sanie ])urpose. Thi^J is ditfercnt from the 



'';ir;7/o of Tucumun, and its leave-, v, hi.,-|i are verv small 







