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It grows four or five yards high, and one quarter thick : the wood is red and 
fit for ornamental work. ‘The decoction of its bark and leaves is good in 
glandular affections, and for coldness of' the feet. The steam of this plant is 
good for toothache, &c. 
78. OLIvILLo, is found in Conception ; its greatest height is twelve yards, 
and its girth is one. ‘The leaf’ is like that of the olive, but it produces no 
fruit. The timber is excellent and durable, and is used in mines; and in 
Coquimbo and Guasco, where it grows stunted and crooked, it is considered 
as the best fuel for smelting metals. 
79. Oxtvo, Olive, grows well all over the country; and is exactly that of 
Europe. 
80. Pauma, the Date Palm, is rare, and grows in Quillota ; and its nearly 
tasteless fruit is without a stone. The most commion and useful palm in Chile 
is that of the small cocoa-nut: the nut resembles the large one in all but size, 
and is used in confectionary. When the trunk is cut down, one end being 
placed in the fire a delicious honey exudes from the other. The wood is 
useless; the stem is tall, straight, and large. This tree does not reach its 
full growth in less than fifty years. 
81. Patmiiya, is found in Conception; is pretty, about four yards high, 
and useless. 
82. Pato Necro, grows in Conception; it is a small shrub, the wood of 
which is used for handles to axes and other tools. 
83. Paxpat, is a low shrub of Conception, of whose uses we are ignorant. 
84. Paxaui, a shrub with a large root ; the branches are about as thick as 
a finger. The bark, steeped in water, is good both externally and internally 
for cutaneous diseases. It is said to be unwholesome for cattle who browse 
on it. (There are two varieties near Quintero ; one with purple flowers, which 
grow in clusters about the size and shape of yellow jasmine, smells very 
sweet during the night. The whole plant yields excellent ashes for the soap- 
boiler.) 
85. Paracua, grows in the neighbourhood of Santiago, Rancagua, and 
Conception. It is good for silk-worms. It loves moist situations: it grows 
about ten yards high, and one and a half thick. The wood is useful for 
. building, for farm purposes, and for furniture. It has five or six coats of 
bark, each of five lines thick: it is used for tanning. An infusion of it is 
said to be serviceable in internal abscesses. 
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