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the physicians of the country. Aniong these is the 

 cullen (psoralea glandulosa) well known in Europe ; 

 it is considered as a powerful vermifuge and one of 

 the best stomachics; the leaves are used in infusion, 

 and from their aromatic taste are by many preferred 

 to tea, and occasionally serve as a substitute for it. 

 This shrub is indigenous to Chili, where it grows 

 spontaneously, and frequently attains the height of a 

 common sized tree. There is another variety which 

 is called the yellow cullen^ from the colour of its 

 leaves, which, like those of the other, are disposed by 

 threes, but are very thin and crisped, and, conglome- 

 rating towards the end of the limbs, form at the top 

 of the tree a thick globular tuft that frequently causes 

 the branches to bend. Its flowers, like those of the 

 other species, are leguminous, the seed solitary, and 

 the leaves of both are vulnerary and very balsamic* 

 The guaicuru (plegorhiza guaicuru, gen. nov.) 

 grows in the northern provinces. The root is rough 

 and of a red colour, and is used as a specific for all 

 kinds of wounds; it puts forth a great number of 

 leaves resembling those of the myrtle, in the centre 



* The albaquilla, in Indian cvUcriy is a shrub whose leaves emit 

 an odour like that of the sweet basil, and produce a balsam of 

 great efficacy in the cure of wounds, as I witnessed in the case of 

 an Indian at Irequin, who had received a very deep one in his 

 neck, and I have also experienced the beneficial effects of it my- 

 self. The flower is larj^e, of a pale violet, and disposed upon 

 spikes, and is one of that species comprehended in the class of the 

 leguminous. Another shrub, called harillo^ is employed for the 

 same purpose. This is different from the harillo of Tucuman, 

 and its leaves, which are very small, emit a strong smell some- 

 thing like that of honey, and are so replete with balsam that they 

 appear tobe covered with {t.—Frazier^s Voyage^ vol. i. 



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