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Mr Wilkins[on] late Consul at Carthagena left at Kew in Decr 1799 the following description taken from a Spanish book which he does not name, the explanation of it is to be ask[ed] of Him when He calls at the Garden.  It starts thus 

Chloroxilum [Chloroxylon] spinosum   Class. 10 or.[der] 1
      Its wood of a pale green very beautiful 
      Flower papilionaceous, yellow, sweet smelling with 10 stamens spreading    
      Drupa almost round of the size, figure & colour & taste of the Rhamnus Zizyphus [Ziziphus jujuba] 
      Leaves Glaucous pinnated unequally with 5 leafits [?] obcordate similar to the Coronilla glauca [Coronilla valentina subsp. glauca]
      Branches twisted & thorny 
Loranthus scurrula [L]	 a parasitical plant  
      Flower pomegranate colour Liliaceous 
Atriplex arborea.[this sp. Is not recorded]  A tree so high and large that there is not in Spain one to be compared to it. 
CactusTileus [this sp. Is not recorded] with 56 angles, thorny and simple 3 yards high & as round as a barrel.
Briega [?Briegeria] salsoloides]      Cl[?] Monadelph<i>a
      Calyx imbricated with shiny scales
      Capsule polisperma [polysperma]
Fernandesia  [Fernandezia] urens [this sp. Is not recorded]
      minuta [this sp. Is not recorded]
      lutea [this sp.is not recorded] found amongst the highest and most rugged part of the Andes under the snow fresh & flourishing full of flower[s] & Fruit !!!
Cactus Coquimbanus [Leucostele nigripilis] with which the mountains are covered. Its thorns a short span long & the whole plant covered with beautiful mosses 	& lichens mixed with the Loranthus grasilus [gracilis] [Tapinanthus buchneri]

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