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The qiánchamali (quinchamalium Chilense). As 

 this plant forms a new genus, I have retained the 

 name by which it is known in the country ; it pro- 

 duces a great number of stalks of nine inches in 

 height, with alternate leaves similar to those of the 

 linaria áurea tragi ; the flowers are umbellated, yellow 

 and tubulous, with a border divided into four parts 

 like the jessamin ; the seed is black, lenticular, and 

 enclosed in a spherical capsule, containing three 

 cells. The country people make use of the expressed 

 juice, or the decoction, as a resolutive after falls or 

 bruises, and it is found to be an excellent remedy 

 in cases of that kind.'^ Feuille, whose memory 

 will be ever dear to the Chilians, has furnished an 

 account of a great number of medicinal plants, with 

 very accurate delineations of them. I shall, howe- 

 ver, merely mention a few of the principal ones ; as 

 the pichoa^ the clinclin^ the guilno^ all of which are 

 purgative plants; the dtuca-lahuen^ a good vulnerary 

 medicine; the sandia- lahuen^ serviceable in men^ 

 strual suppressions ; the corecore^ a specific for the 



of them are sudorific, and are good in pleuritic complaints. 

 There is likewise a gveat quantity of bastard rosemary, whicîi 

 produces the same effects. — Frazier^^ Fey age , vol. i. 



* A drink made of the decoction of a certain herb called quin- 

 chamali is esteemed as an infallible remedy for the bleeding of the 

 nose, when caused by a fall or violent blow. It is a species of the 

 lavender, which bears a small red and yellow fiower. Many of 

 the medicinal herbs that v e have in France are also natural to the 

 country ; as several species of the maiden-hair, some of which are 

 equal to the Canadian, the mallows, the fox -glove, polipody, 

 spleenwort, and some others whose names I am unacquainted 

 "with. — Frazier^s Voya^"£^ vol. i. 



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