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CHILI. 
{Leguminosa. 
minentibus, glabra, vel in fi, subtus pubescentia, Petiolus vix semiunciam longus, supra planus. Macemi sub- 
paniculati, axillares et terminales, nunc foliislongiores,nunc iis breviores. Pedunculi pedicellique magis minusve 
pubescenti-hirsuti, bracteati ; bracteis parvis squamiformibus. Flores dioici. Masc. plerumque in racemis lon- 
gioribus. Cal. 5-partitus, basi truncatus, laciniis erectis, oblongis, marginibus obscure ciliatis. Petala 5, oblongo- 
ovata, demum patentia. Siam. 10, 5 petalis opposita, 5 petalis alterna, sub disco inserta. Filamenta brevia. 
Antherce oblongse, birimosse. Pistillum abortivum. Germen parvum, fere nullum, disco carnoso pateriformi 
coadunatum. Stylus brevis. Stigma 3-fidum, laciniis linearibus erectis. Faem. Cal. et Cor. ut in mare. 
Stamina abortiva vix calycis longitudine. Pistillum: Germen subglobosiun, uniovulatum, disco camoso 
insertum. Stylus germine brevius. Stigma 3-fidam, laciniis capitatis, patentibus. Pericarpium ; Drupa 
sicca, fulva, nitida, magnitudine seminis Pisi sativi, stylo perbrevi terminata. Epicarpium tenue, fragile. 
Endocarpium parcum, carnosum. Nux compressa, sphserica. Semen solitarium, inversum. Embryo arcuatus. 
Podospermum e fundo loculi ortum. 
Hab. Conception.— There are so many points in common between this plant and the Mauria simplici- 
folia of Humb. and Kunth, Nov. Gen. v. 7. t. 605, that it is difficult not to believe them to be generically the 
same : but in Mauria the flowers are hermaphrodite ; the stigma is solitary, thick, and angled, and the seed 
is pendulous : whereas, except in habit, our plant differs only fr om the simple-leaved species of Rhus in the 
greater number of its stamens ; whence we have been led to refer it to that genus. This, Dr. Gillies, to whom 
we are also indebted for specimens, as well as to Mr. Cruckshanks and Mi’. Bridges, considei’s to be the true 
“ Laurus caustica" of Molina, the Llithi or Litri of the natives, on which our friend observes, “ The state- 
ment made by Molina, relative to the poisonous nature of this tree, seems to be well founded ; as I am 
informed, by several intelligent people, that individuals resting or sleeping under it at certain times of the 
year, are afterwards attacked with eruptions all over the body.” We take this opportunity of stating, that 
we are enabled to correct, by means of Mr. Cruckshanks’ remarks, a mistake in Feuillee, which has led 
most succeeding botanists into a serious error. Feuillee, in his description, attributes the same properties 
to this plant as Molina has since done, and says he has not seen the flower or fruit : yet the figure to which 
the name “ Llithi" is affixed, represents a fruit larger than a chestnut; and Lamarck and Sprengel have, 
in consequence, described the Laurus caustica with such a fruit. But the whole has arisen from the names 
in the plate having been engraved under the wrong figures ; the plant on the right without fruit is the Llithi; 
Avhile that in fruit on the left is the Lucuma obovata. 
Tab. VII. Fig. 1, Male flower; fig. 2, Female flower; fig. 3, Flower from which the calyx and corolla 
are removed ; fig. 4, Fruit ; fig. 5, Section of do. : — magnified. 
Ord. XXI. LEGUMINOSA. Juss. 
1. SPARTIUM. DC. 
1. S.junceum. Linn. — De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 145. 
Hab. Conception. Doubtless introduced from Europe. 
2. TRIFOLIUM. Tourn. 
1. T. grandijlorum ; caule repente, foliolis obcordatis striatis denticulatis petiolisque 
pilosis, stipulis ovalibus apice longe aristatis, pedunculis vix pilosis adscendentibus 
petiolo triplo longioribus, calyce campanulato piloso, laciniis ineequalibus lanceolatis 
tubum superantibus, corollis calyce 5-6-plo longioribus scariosis persistentibus. 
Hab. Conception. — To this species the T. obcordatum of Desvaux, from Buenos-Ayres, is, perhaps, 
closely allied : but our plant belongs to a different section, the “ Lupinaster" as does the next species. The 
involucrum is small and many-leaved. 
2. T. chilense ; caule dilFuso glabro, foliolis anguste oblongo-obovatis argute denticu- 
