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66. Membrillo, Quince. This and the fruitful Lucumo are much alike, 

 being both delicate in their growth, and furnishing excellent tough twigs for 

 basket-work ; the fruits of both are alike in size and colour, but not in taste, 

 one being bitter and the other sweet. (The Quince is also much larger, and 

 its shape like that of Europe : the shape of the Lucumo is like an orange.) 



67. Michay, grows in Valdivia, Conception, Juan Fernandez, and in the 

 neighbourhood of Santiago. It grows as thick as a man's arm, and is about 

 a yard high ; it yields a lively and lasting yellow dye. A kind of caterpillar 

 like the silk-worm forms its coccoon in this shrub. This wood serves for in- 

 laying. 



68. Mitrin, is low and scarce ; it yields a black colour. 



69. Molle, Schinus Molle, is found in Rancagua, Quillota, Cuzcuz, and 

 Coquimbo. It grows little more than eight yards high, and two and a half 

 in girth. The heart of this tree is very solid, and is used for pillars, for the 

 axletrees of waggons, and gables and corner-posts of dwellings. Where a 

 part is buried under ground it takes root and thereby secures the building 

 better. This tree yields a gum which, applied to the head as a plaister, re- 

 lieves spasms. If the bark be wounded a liquor flows from it; which becom- 

 ing thick, is excellent for nervous complaints, and affords a good stomachic 

 and cardiac medicine. 



70. Mora, Mulberry, grows in Coquimbo and Santiago ; is like that of Spain : 

 the timber is durable, and good for carving, though it seldom produces fruit. 

 The tree grows so readily, that dry fences of it in Coquimbo sprouted in- 

 differently above or below wherever they were placed. 



71. Mudeu, grows in Conception ; it is a lofty tree, and grows three yards 

 thick. We do not know its peculiar uses. 



72. Narangillo, grows in Aconcagua ; it is sixteen or twenty yards high, 

 and of sufficient girth to cut logs of eighteen inches square and twenty-one 

 feet in length. The timber is tough, and applicable to most uses. In medi- 

 cine it is said that, infused in baths, it relieves rheumatic pains. 



73. Naranjo, Orange. Both the bitter and sweet like those of Spain. 



74. Natri, is a tree of Conception, of whose qualities we are ignorant. 



75. Nipa, grows every where from Conception to Coquimbo ; it grows five 

 yards high, and one half thick : the wood is useful for all common purposes, 

 and baths and fumigations of all parts of the plant are wholesome. 



7G. Nogal, Walnut, is the same as that of Spain. 



77. Notru, is called Cirnellillo in Conception, where it is most common. 



