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52, 53. Limo y Limon, Lemon and Lime, the same as in Spain. 
54. Lineusr, Licus, 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 Piico, 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. Lotmata, 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, Achres 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 S1ete Camisas, is the Ste- 
ryorylon rubrum, and the Wuite Lum, or Barraco, the Steryorylon 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 
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* T suspect the same with the last. 
