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and Lambert’s C. longiflora from French Guiana, the only Cin- 
chona which grows on the easterly coast of the South American 
continent. Nothing decisive is known about the height of its 
place of growth; but as it has been sent from the neighbour- 
~ hood of the town of Gran Para, at the mouth of the Amazon river, 
and as in this region there are only low hills found, we are allowed 
to suppose that C. Brasiliensis belongs to the hot regions. 
The character of this species by M. Willdenow, tube of the corol- 
la the length of the calyx, distinguishes this Cinchona from every 
one hitherto described. Throat of the corollv hairy ; hairs few, 
short, appressed, situated on the interior surface of the corolline 
laciniz. , tam others wrt “to BIC: wh 3B 
7. C. excelsa corolla pubescente, filamentis € odio tubi na- 
scentibus, antheris exsertis, foliis oblongts subtus pubescentibus. 
Roxb. Plant. of the Coast of Coromandel, it. t. 106. & 
The only Cinchona hitherto discovered on the continent of 
the ancient world, about whose medicinal use and its bitter 
no trials have however as yet been made. It has very small 
greenish-white flowers, and of all Cinchone the largest leaves, 
sometimes one foot long and five inches broad. ne 
The C. excelsa (Bundarvo of the Felinga Indians) grows in 
the mountain chain of the Circars, which rans along the north- 
easterly coast of the great peninsula of Hindostan. Retzins* 
has at an earlier date, from a counts communicated to him 
by Konig, mentioned a Cinchona which grows in Malacca, op- 
posite to the coast of Coromandel, and which produces the ge- 
nuine terra japonica, called Cotta Cambar, a vegetable produce, 
which for a long time was erroneously ascribed to Mimosa spi-_ 
cata Pluk. Might not this Cinchona from Malacca be a diffe- 
rent species from C. excelsa ? 
* Observ. Bot. fasc. iv. p. 6. 
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