Al 
Mutis has already proposed, in the literary News of Santa Fe, to 
separate the Cinchona with long projecting stamina from the 
rest. ‘I know not,” says he, ‘‘ what my friend Linnzeus thought 
of the Cinchona of the South Sea, for its reception in the Sup- 
plement only proves the favour of the son, whose opinion has 
not with me the weight of the opinions of the father.” The au- 
thors of the Flora Peruviana wish to make the Island-Cinchone, 
Portlandie ;* but M. Swarz, in Schrader’s Journal fiir die Bo- 
tanik,+ proves, that in the Island-Cinchonz, as in those of the 
continent, the capsule is a dissepimentum loculorum exacte pa- 
rallelum, and in Portlandia a dissepimentum vere contrarium. 
Ruiz’s Portlandia corymbosa is theretore no Portlandia, but 
belongs to the Cinchone filamentis e basi tubi ortis, to C. Ca- 
ribeau, C. floribunda, and Cc. brachycarpu, ¢ oth Sanat ox of plants 
which M. Swarz also wishes to. “Into a sepa : ac 
count of the flower, but not on the score of fractificalione™ 
C. excelsa, with enormous leaves, frequently of twelve inches 
length and fifteen inches breadth, discovered in the East Indies, 
stands almost in the middle, betwixt the West-Indian and South- 
American Cinchona and its existence seems to dissuade us, as it 
were, from the proposed separation of the two tribes. However, 
the C. exrcelsa Roxb. approaches less to the Island-Cinchona than 
to the New Granada and Peruvian ones, corolla pubescenti, sta- 
minibus medio tubi ant, nec e ¢ bast tubi we nt - I 
than the filaments: : etre difficult to find reasons for uniting the 
land-Cinchonz into a separate genus, im the formation of the 
fruit. “They differt from the Cinchone: of the continent of South 
* Flor. Peruy. t. il. i. praef. and p. 49, + Band. I. p- 398, 
+ Schrader, a, a, O, S, 359. 
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