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shaped, denticulated, juicy, and three inches long ; 

 the flowers are white, with four petals, and the ber- 

 ries purple. The Indians eat these berries or wild 

 grapes, which are very sweet, and also prepare from 

 them a beverage called theca. The juice of the leaves 

 is esteemed a specific in the sore throat, and I am 

 convinced of its efficacy from my own experience. 

 There is a variety of this tree which bears a white 

 berry. 



The liima (myrtus Juma) is distinguishable from 

 the common myrtle by its round leaves and its height, 

 which is frequently forty feet. Its wood is the best 

 of any known for the use of coach-makers, and large 

 quantities of it are annually exported to Peru for 

 that purpose. The Indians make from the berries a 

 pleasant wine, in high repute as a stomachic. There 

 is likewise another species of lofty myrtle (myrtus 

 maxima) which grows in the same places with the 

 luma, and frequently to the height of seventy feet ; the 

 wood of this is also very valuable. 



Among those trees which produce the most use- 

 ful woods, besides the cedars already mentioned, 

 are the caven^ the quillai^ the lïthï^ the 7nayten^ and 

 the temu. 



The caven (mimosa caven) called by the Spa- 

 niards espino^ resembles much the acacia folio scor- 

 pioidis leguminosa of Egypt. The trunk is winding 

 and solid; the bark black and filled with cracks; the 

 branches scattered and furnished with thorns ; the 

 leaves disposed in pairs on a common footstalk, and 

 two inches in length ; the flowers are fiosculous and 

 yellow, and form a round bouquet like those of the 



