504 



APPENDIX. 



52, 53. Limo y Limon, Lemon and Lime, the same as in Spain. 



54. Lingue, Ligue, or Linea. It grows twenty-four feet high and two 

 thick ; its solid marbled wood is used for capstans, troughs, trays, and even 

 masts of small ships, and other purposes where it is not exposed to worms. 

 It rots in water. The bark is good for tanning ; dyes shoe-heels and walking- 

 sticks red. The flowers and fruit, or bean-like seeds, are sweet ; they make 

 the flesh of birds bitter : they are bad for cattle and horses ; but the country 

 people are fond of a drink made from an infusion of them. 



55. Litre o Pilco, Laurus Caustica, is very common ; it grows to four 

 yards high, but is very slender : the wood is close-grained and hard ; it is 

 used for knee-timber in ships, wheels, axletrees, and ploughshares, in- 

 stead of iron. The shade of this tree is noxious, producing great swelling on 

 those who rest under it ; and to touch it causes blains and sores. Anodynes 

 and refrigerents are the proper cure. From the small berry it produces, the 

 Indians make a very agreeable chicha and sweetmeats. The root is very thick, 

 with knots three quarters of a yard thick, and furnishing marble slabs fit for 

 inlaying ; also for centre-pieces for wheels. 



56. Lolmata, Cactus, Great Torch-thistle, also called Quisco, is common 

 everywhere ; it grows five or six yards high, and three quarters thick : it 

 produces spines nine inches long, so smooth and hard, that they are used for 

 knitting-needles. The wood is used for small planking, looms, and the huts of 

 the poor ; it is very durable when kept dry. 



57. Lucumo, Achrces Lucumo (of which two kinds are cultivated, the 

 Bifera and the Turbinata). This appears to be a tree imported from Peru ; 

 it grows best in the neighbourhood of Coquimbo, but flourishes at Quillota : 

 the fruit it bears is very sweet, of a pale orange colour within, with a large 

 shiny seed very much resembling a chesnut. 



58. Lum, of two kinds ; the first, called Lum, or Siete Camisas, is the Ste- 

 ryoxylon rubrum, and the White Lum, or Barraco, the Steryoaylon revo- 

 lutum, of the Flora Peruviana et Chilena : these trees grow six or seven 

 yards high and a foot thick. The wood is solid, and the bark is a purgative. 



59. Luma *, grows in Valdivia and Conception : it is used for tillers, bits, 

 bolts for ships ; for nuts and screws ; for presses, axletrees, and shafts for carts ; 

 also, for hand-spikes. It is a durable wood ; and the trees give spars of from 

 eight to ten yards long, and from six to ten inches square : it is crooked, and 



* I suspect the same with the lust. 



