176 MR. R. SPRUCE’S VISIT TO THE CINCHONA FORESTS 
completed its examination, especially that of its upper lip; but as 
ample characters are elsewhere furnished for its specific identifica- 
tion, at least in relation to those already described, we may refer 
it to the proper genus under the name of U. Benjaminiana. It 
resembles U. inflata in size and the presence of a floating verticil 
of abortive foliaceous axes on the lower part of the scape. 
U. Benjaminiana. Axis demersus; foliis capillari-divisis sparse utricu- 
liferis. Scapus infra verticillum natantem pilosus supra glaber esqua- 
mosus 4-7 pollicaris, vesicis 6-10 lin. longis lineari-lanceolatis utrinque 
angustatis apicem versus segmentis capillaceis instructis, 6-multi- 
florus. Bractee basifixe. Pedicelli calycem parvum squantes v. 
duplo excedentes. Calcar denique 4-5 lin. longum, labio inferiore 
eorollz duplo longius, apice abrupte obtusum emarginatum. Capsula 
minute apiculata, seminibus circiter 5 complanatis ala membranacea 
anguste circumcinctis. Akentra inflata, Bj. Linnea, xx. 319. 
-Note.—l may add to the above the correction of some mis- 
prints, &c., affecting the sense, which I observe in my paper 
on Indian Utricularia, published in the * Linnean Journal’ (Bot. 
Proc. vol. iii. p. 170). For *aciculiferis" and “ aciculifera ” 
(pp. 174, 175), read “ utriculiferis," &c.; “ Bracteis basi-volutis," 
read in all cases “solutis;” “volute” also, in foot-note, p. 174, 
should be “ solute.” In the description of U. Wallichiana, p. 182, 
line 7 from bottom, for “ 2-3-plo longiore ” read “ breviore." 
Notes of a Visit to the Cinchona Forests on the yum slope of 
the Quitenian Andes. By Ricuarp Srruts, Esq. Com- 
municated by Sir W. J. Ноокев, F.R.S., F.L.S. 
[Read Dec. 15, 1859.] 
M last letter informed you that І was contemplating ап expe- 
dition to the forests producing the Cinchona Tree on the western 
slopes of the Quitenian Andes. I was for some time doubtful as 
to what part I should visit—it was but two or three days’ journey 
to the forests of Jilimbi and Guanujo at the western foot of Chim- 
borazo, but to reach them the Paramo de Puenevata (the northern 
shoulder of Chimborazo) has to be passed near the snow-limit, and 
in the months of July and August it snows there almost inces- 
santly, while the winds blow with a violence unparalleled even in 
this windy region, frequently hurling away both horse and rider, 
who are either seen no more, or their mangled remains are found 
