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ink. The guiacum^ which in Chili never acquires 

 the size of a tree, is employed in turnery. The ca- 

 binet-makers use, for inlaying, the wood of several 

 shrubs whose appropriate names I am unacquainted 

 with, but which, from their hardness, are generally 

 called ebony wood. The wild rosemary and several 

 other resinous shrubs, are used as fuel in the fur- 

 naces for melting copper. The wood of the colli- 

 guay (colliguaja, gen. nov.) when burnt, exhales a 

 very agreeable smell like roses, without producing 

 the least inconvenience. 



The incense is not inferior to that brought from 

 Arabia, and is obtained from a shrub that grows in 

 the province of Coquimbo^ to which I have given 

 the name of thurar 'm^ gen, nov. It usually grows 

 to the height of four feet; the trunk is of an ash 

 colour, from v/hence proceed a great number of 

 branches loaded wdth oval leaves that are alternate, 

 four inches long, rough, very succulent, and of a 

 pale yellow; the flowers are small, funnel-shaped, 

 and of a light green ; the capsule is spherical and 

 divided into two cells, containing as many eiongat- 

 ed seeds of a brown colour. In the summer the in- 

 cense exiKles through the pores of the bark around 

 the limbs in the form of little drops or tears, and is 

 collected in great quantities in the autumn, when 

 the leaves begin to fall. The globules are hard, 

 white, transparent and shining, and have a bitter 

 taste and a highly aromatic smell. In the hills near 

 Valparaiso is found a species of sun-fiower with a lig- 

 neous trunk, which produces a resinous substance 

 resembling incense. 



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