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The gevutn (gcvuina avellina, gen. nov.) called 

 by the Spaniards avellano^ or the hazle, from the 

 appearance of its fruit, grows to a middle height in 

 marshes and in the vallies of the Andes. Its leaves 

 are winged and terminated with one dissimilar like 

 those of the ash, but the leaflets are rounder, more 

 solid, slightly denticulated, and disposed by four or 

 five couple upon a common pedicle. The flowers 

 are white, quadripetal, and attached by pairs to a 

 spike which proceeds from the hollow part of the 

 leaves. The fruit is round, nine lines in diameter, 

 and covered with a coriaceous shell, which is at first 

 green, afterwards becomes yellow, and at length 

 black; the kernel is divided into two lobes, and in 

 taste resembles the European walnut. 



The peumo (peumus, gen. nov.) is a tree consist- 

 ing of four very different species, and a great num* 

 ber of varieties ; all of these are tall and covered with 

 stiff* aromatic leaves; the fruit is like the olive, but 

 a little smaller, having a kernel more or less hard, ac- 

 cording to the species. The flow^ers are white or of 

 a rose colour, with six petals shorter than the calyx. 

 The first species (peumus rubra) has alternate leaves, 

 oval, petiolated, entire and large, like those of the 

 hornbeam, and bears a red fruit; the second (peumus 

 alba) has denticulated leaves and a white fruit ; the 



the stamina forming the pericarpium of the male catkin, and the 

 two valves of each stigma that of the female. 



The fruit is also singular ; it consists of large oval rounded cones, 

 composed of a great number of elongated seeds, fixed naked around 

 »ne common axis. These seeds, of course, are not to be found ii\ 

 pairs in tlie hollow of each shell of the cone as in the pine, sílice 

 that of the dombeya has no shells.,..-Fr. Tram. 



