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ovato-oblongis, apice longe mucronatis, utrinque acutis, in- 
terdum imo obtusioribus, coriaceis, margine cartilagineo in- 
tegris vel rarius subsinuato-dentatis et obsolete spinosis, 
supra lucidis, late viridibus, subtus pallidioribus, opacis, costa 
mediana prominente ; nervis anastomosantibus venisque reti- 
culatis utrinque prominulis, subtus in axillis et in dichotomiis 
nervorum glandula cava immersa poro aperto donatis; petiolo 
brevi, rugoso, sub lente puberulo; paniculis terminalibus, 
folio multo longioribus, spicatim racemosis; rachi flavida, 
tomentella, ramis 3-floris patentibus calycibusque pubes- 
centibus; petalis flavido-albis, glabris, odoratissimis ; drupa 
oliveeformi.—Chile, v. v., in provinetis centralibus Naranjillo 
dicta, in australioribus Guilli-patagua nuncupata. 
A tree growing in the central provinces of Chile, and extend- 
ing as far to the southward as 35° lat.: it grows to the height 
of 10-20 feet. In the Viceroy’s report to the King of Spain, 
enumerating the useful trees and shrubs of Chile, the Naranjillo 
of Aconcagua is said to be 50 or 60 feet high, and of sufficient 
girth to furnish logs 18 inches square and 21 feet in length. 
I have never seen or heard of its attaining any approach to 
that size. It has an erect trunk, with a broad spreading 
head and copious foliage. The wood is white and tough, with 
a fine grain, and is easily worked; when sawn, it makes good 
barrel-staves. The leaves are thick and rigid, of a pale, bright, 
shining green, generally elliptic and acute at both extremities, 
with a sharp mucronate apex, a thick yellowish cartilaginous 
border, which is generally entire, rarely obsoletely spinose, 
13-24 inches long, ?—1 inch broad, on a fleshy thickened petiole 
2 lines long. The terminal inflorescence is a spicated raceme, 
ferruginously pubescent, 3 or 4 inches long, its numerous alter- 
nate branchlets, bracteated at base, being very patent, and 4-6 
lines long, each bearing at its apex 3-6 almost sessile flowers ; 
the sepals are suborbicular, pilose, with ciliate imbricated mar- 
gins, 4 line diam.; the petais are oblong, 2 lines long, 1 line 
broad, cuneate at base, internally furnished with a raised eari- 
nated nervure, the margins crenated, broadly and quincuncially 
imbricated in estivation, the summits of the three more internal 
ones being inflected and plicated together; the stamens are 
about two-thirds the length of the petals; the ovary and short 
style are the length of the stamens, and glabrous. The fruit, 
which I have not seen, is said to be 6-8 lines long and 4-5 lines 
in diameter*, 
Var. leta;—foliis late ovatis vel obovatis, e basi 3—5-nerviis 
* A figure of this plant, with analytical details, will be given in the 
‘Contributions,’ vol. ii. Plate 67 a. 
