culties, and indeed perils, encountered by Mr. Markham in 
this journey, are described in his ‘Travels in Peru and 
India,’ a work containing not only a fund of varied infor- 
mation, regarding the Cinchona trees and the conditions under 
which they grow in the Andes, and were introduced into 
India, but a deeply interesting account of the extinction of the 
Incas in Peru, and of the execrable treatment they and the 
Indians received under the rule of their conquerors, the 
Spaniards. 
Like the two other Cinchonas figured in this work, namely, 
the variety of this mentioned above, and @. officinals, t. 5364, 
-the C. Calisaya has been flowered for the first time in this 
country by J. E. Howard, Esq., F.R.S., of Tottenham, in - 
whose conservatory it forms a small tree, eight to nine feet 
high, blossoming in March. Besides being a successful 
cultivator of this interesting genus, Mr. Howard has the 
well-sustained reputation of being an enlightened philan- 
thropist, who has energetically aided the Indian Government 
in its endeavours to extend the propagation of the Fever-bark | 
trees, and to ascertain the value of their properties ; whilst 
as a scientific man he has, by his careful researches into the 
origin and history of their species and varieties, and his 
beautiful illustrated works, produced and circulated regard- 
less of labour and cost, earned the gratitude alike of botanists 
and pharmacists. 
Desor. A lofty tree, with an erect or ascending trunk 
often twice as thick as the human body, and a leafy crown 
overtopping almost all the trees of its native forests; bark 
thick, longitudinally and transversely fissured; branches 
spreading. Leaves opposite, oblong-elliptic or obovate- 
lanceolate, often large and broad, glabrous and shining above, 
beneath with pale veins, in the axils of which are rough 
depressions; petiole short. Séipules oblong, obtuse, quite 
entire, connected. Panicle large, diffuse, tomentose ; 
peduncles square and compressed, main ones opposite, 
spreading, secondary and ultimate ones opposite or alter- 
nate; bracts minute, ovate, acute. Flowers very numerous. 
Calyx minute, 5-toothed. Corolla rose-red, tube half an inch 
long, tomentose, as are the spreading lobes. Capsule ovoid, 
acute, brown. Seeds yellow; wing elliptical-lanceolate, 
subacute at both ends, lacerate on the margin.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower cut longitudinally ; 2, stamens; 3, stigmas :—all enlarged. 
