Tas. 6052. 
CINCHONA CALISAYA, VAR. JOSEPHIANA. 
Native of Bolivia and Peru. 
Nat. Ord. Rupracex.—Tribe CrncHones, 
Genus C1ncuona, Linn. ; (Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. ii. p. 32). 
CincHona Calisaya ; foliis oblongis v. lanceolato-obovatis obtusis basi at- 
tenuatis rarius utrinque acutis glabratis nitidis v. subtus pubescentibus 
in axillis venarum scrobiculatis, filamentis quam dimidia anthera 
plerumque brevioribus, capsula ovata florem longitudine equante, semini- 
bus margine crebre fimbriato-denticulatis (Weddell, Hist. Nat. Quing., 
30). 
Var. 8. Josephiana; frutex pratensis foliis oblongo-v. ovato-lanceolatis 
acutiusculis obtusisve utrinque glaberrimis rigidulis scrobiculatis v. 
escrobiculatis capsula vulgo maore. 
C. Calisaya var. Josephiana, Weddell, Hist. Nat. Quing., p. 31. Notes sur 
les Quinquinia, 18 et 54. Gust. Planch. des Quing., p. 74. Triana, 
Nouv. Etudes sur les Quing., p. 64. 
This very distinct looking form of Cinchona Calisaya 
flowered in October, 1872, with Mr. Howard, who informs 
me that he received the plant from Kew some five or six 
years previously, but that he has kept no record of the locality 
whence it was originally obtained. It is obviously one of 
the plants brought by Mr. Pearce in 1866, and of which 
there are specimens from himself in the Kew herbarium, 
marked as an evergreen shrub, six to ten feet high, gathered in 
flower at Moro, altitude 5—6000 feet, January, 1866, several 
Ward’s cases of which were forwarded from Kew to India in the 
same and following years. Mr. Howard at first supposed it 
to be the C. micrantha, var. Calisayoides (which is inseparable 
by botanical characters from C. micrantha var. oblongifolia, of 
Weddell), and it is indeed to all appearance intermediate 
between (©. Calisaya and C. micrantha. Subsequently, after a 
correspondence with Dr. Weddell, he agreed with that 
learned author in considering it referable to C. Calisaya var. 
Josephiana. The “ Itzhu cascarilla’”’ of the Peruvians, a plant 
which grows very abundantly in the same regions as C. 
AuGusT Ist, 1875. 
