39. 
been sent to Spain, through the exertions of Governor Don Vin« 
cente Emparan, under the name of Cascarilla de Nueva Andalu- 
sia, is likewise different from Cinchona. A chemist would hard- 
ly be able to distinguish this Cuspa bark from true Cinchona 
bark. It is an excellent remedy in the ague. Although we 
observed for almost a twelvemonth the Cuspa trees of Rio 
Manzanario near Cumana, yet it never fell to our lot to meet 
with its flowers.. We do not know, therefore, by what distinctive” 
mark it differs from the genus Bonplandia and Cinchona. The 
want of stipule, however, the situation of the leaves, and the 
whole habitus, make it more than probable that the Cuspa is 
not a Cinchona. The absence of stipule is particularly striking. 
Yet notwithstanding its alternate leaves, the Bark-tree of Cuma- 
na might still be a Cinchona, for the same reason that Cornus 
alternifulia stands isolated amongst twelve species of Cornus with. 
opposite leaves. It has likewise remained doubtful to us, whe- 
ther the bark of Acatamez, a village situated westward of Ville 
de Ibarra on the coast of the South Sea, betwixt Rio Verde and 
Rio Esmeraldita, be the produce ofa species of Cinchona. The 
flower of this Acatamez bark-tree, with which we became ac- 
quainted during our stay in the town of Popayan, has not been. 
hitherto examined by botanists. Mr. Brown, who long before us 
was in the South Sea, (in 1793,) has already given some account in 
Lambert’s Monograph of Cinchona* of this. new speriet of she 
torrid zone. Either from want of geogra ical information, o 
by corruption of the name, he calls it J ark of Tecamez, 1 
of Cascurilla of Acatamez. iets i Lies 
A fourth tribe of plants  eaaane Peruvian bark, although 
of less medicinal power, is the genus Cosmibuena of the Flora 
Peruviana, To this belongs Cinchona longifiora, } Mut. or C. gran- 
* Lambert, p, 30, 
