374 MB. E. M. HOLMES ON CINCHONA LEDGERTANA. 



JErua scandens, Wall. (M. ve- 



lutina, Moq.) 

 Piper, off. P. canino, Dietr. 

 Myristica, cf. M. insipida, B. 



Br. 

 Loranthus (§ Dendrophthoe), 



sp., off. L. rigido, Wall. ? 

 Fieus, off. F. acanthophyllae, 



Miq. 

 spp. (Three species in- 



determinable from the 

 material.) 

 Fatonia pilosa, Gaud. (F.lan- 



ceolata, Dene.) 

 Lycopodium carinatum, Desv. 



Phlegmaria, L. 



Polypodium irioides, Lam. 

 Pteris tripartita, Sw. 

 Asplenium falcatum, Lam. 

 Vittaria elongata, Sw. 

 This collection, so far as it goes, is made up in great part of the 

 more widely diffused species of the Indian archipelago. 

 The most interesting plants appear to be : — 

 A plant, in fruit only, which I would refer to the Meliaceous 

 genus Owenia, perhaps indeed to O. cerasifera, P. Muell., of 

 Queensland. 



A fine Mucuna in fruit, of the section Stizolobium, which I 

 have not identified. 



A Belarbrea, an Araliaceous genus hitherto only received from 

 New Caledonia. 



A plant, in fruit only, which may be something new, though 

 possibly a Strombosia (Olacinese). — [D. O.] 



Eemarks on Cinchona Ledgerianc/as a Species. 

 By Edward Morell Holmes, F.L.S. 



[Bead 20th November, 1884.] 



The name Cinchona Ledger iana appears to have been first used 

 in Cinchona plantations in the East Indies, to distinguish the 

 trees grown from seed collected in the northern portion of 

 Bolivia by an Indian servant of Mr. Ledger's, and which was 

 subsequently distributed to Java, various plantations in India, 

 and Ceylon. 



When the plants flowered, Mr. J. E. Howard figured in his 

 magnificent work 'The Quinology of the East-Indian Planta- 

 tions' three forms of Cinchona which he had received from 

 Java, as the produce of Ledger's seedlings, under the name of 

 Cinchona Calisaya var. Ledgeriana, and gave a brief botanical 

 description of the plant, by Dr. Weddell, in the accompanying 

 text. 



