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feet, but rarely exceeds six inches in diameter, and 

 is pithy within. The branches unite at the top and 

 form a spherical crown, which produces a most de- 

 lightful effect. The leaves are woolly and in the form 

 of an elongated heart eight or ten inches in length 

 by three in breadth; the fiowers are turned back in 

 the form of a funnel, and are divided into five point- 

 ed lobes; they are white, from eight to ten inches 

 long and three in breadth. The fruit is nearly round, 

 of the size of an orange and covered with a greenish 

 rind, containing a number of oval seeds, but it is 

 never eaten. 



The wild orange tree (citrus Chilensis) is distin- 

 guished from the cultivated by its sessile leaves, 

 and its fruit, which is oval and not larger than a fil- * 

 bert, but has the taste of a common orange. This 

 tree frequently grows to a considerable height, and 

 the wood is much esteemed by turners on account 

 of its beautiful yellow colour. 



The white cinnamon, called by the Chilians boighe^ 

 and the Spaniards canello^ may be found in all the 

 thickets of Chili. It is commonly known by the 

 name of Winter's cinnamon, from its being first in- 

 troduced into Europe by Captain Winter,* The 

 trunk of this tree frequently rises to the height of 

 fifty feet; the branches are placed opposite each 

 other by fours, in the form of a cross; the leaves 



* The boiglie of Chili, or caiiello of the Sî^aniards, is not the 

 tree which furnishes the Avhite cinnamon of merchants, and, of 

 eourse, not the sanie with that described by Linnicus under the 

 name of winteriana canella. The boighe of Chili is a real drymis, 

 and appears to be the same with that described by the Chevalier 

 de la Mark under the name of drymis punctata,...i*>. Trans. 



