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firewood it furnishes. It is excellent for large enclosures for cattle, for 

 house-timber, and for espaliers for vines, because it does not rot under ground, 

 although the yellow part becomes worm-eaten in the air. It is also used for 

 turnery, for cart-wheels, and for lintels for doors. The flower is like the aroma, 

 of exquisite perfume. The fruit is a black seed in a pod, very good for cattle; 

 if bruised and spit upon, it emits so intolerable a smell, that it is necessary to 

 burn paper in the room. It makes excellent writing-ink, being steeped in 

 water and bruised, and mixed with copperas, and placed in the sun.* 



38. Floripondio, Datura Arborea, is very common ; it grows five yards 

 high, and a quarter thick, with many branches. Its flower is beautiful, and 

 smells very sweet ; but the wood is of no use. It takes grafts of the cherimoya, 

 which thrive well on it ; but the fruit has not been tried, for fear of poison, 

 because that of the floripondio itself destroys dogs. 



39. Godocoipo, is rather a rare tree in the neighbourhood of Rancagua ; 

 it grows to the height of four yards, and the thickness of two feet : it is used 

 by the cabinet-makers. 



40. Guautru, grows in Conception, three yards high, and nine inches 

 thick ; the bark is used in hysteric affections. 



41. Guayacan, is found about Coquimbo, Cuzcuz, and Quillota ; grows four 

 yards high, and half a yard thick : its solid wood is as good as box, and is 

 veined with blue and yellow. Combs, bowls, balustrades, and other domestic 

 articles, are made of it. The infusion of it is astringent, and is good in many 

 complaints. 



42. Guayo grows in Conception to the height of eight yards, and is one 

 yard in girth ; the wood is white, compact, tough, and fit for turnery. Sticks 

 are made of it ; which, being steeped in urine, acquire a red, shining colour. 

 From the seed a purgative medicine is prepared ; and the bark tans peltry, 

 and dyes it red. 



43. Guayun, a small rare shrub, growing on the banks of rivers. The leaf is 

 large and whitish, and is furnished with a spine at the top. The seed is 

 purple. 



44. Guignan, or Goigan, is found in Conception, Rancagua, and some other 

 districts ; it grows four yards high, and three quarters in circumference. Its 

 wood is very useful. Its seed is of the size, shape, smell, taste, and strength 

 of pepper ; the infusion of it is agreeable and stomachic, useful in the begin- 



* The same shrub grows abundantly in the Mahratta mountains. 



