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hollcn, and is one of the most tcautiTul trees of 

 Chili. The physicians, however, in critical 

 cases, direct (he buds to be taken in powder not 

 exceedino; half a scruple, as a powerful emetic. 

 The sap of this tree is a yellow inclining to green, 

 l.nit is not lacteous. Its flowers and fructifica- 

 tion I shall not pretc! d to describe, never having 

 seen it in a flowering state. 



The maijten (maytenus boaria, gen. nov. ) is 

 a beautiful tree, and always ret:iins its foliage. 

 It grows in the same places with the lithi, and is 

 an antidote to its poison. It is rarely more than, 

 thirty feet high; its branches, which are nume- 

 rous, and commence at the height of eight feet 

 from the root, form a very beautiful top ; the 

 leaves are denticulated and pointed, about two 

 inches in length, and of a brilliant green ; the 

 flowers are monopetalous, bell-shaped, and of a 

 purple hue, but so small as not to be distinguish 

 able at a little distance. These (lowers entirely 

 cover the young shoots, and are succeeded by a 

 small round capsule containing a single black- 

 seed. The w 'od is very hard, and cf an orange 

 colour spotted with red a?id green. The cattle 

 are very fond of the leaves, and will forsake any 

 herbage for them ; and \verc it not for the 

 hsdgi'3 and ditches with which the inhabitants 

 surround the young trees the species wouh^ pro- 

 bablv before this time have been destroved. 



The toiio (temus moscata, gen. nov.) is a tree 



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