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mating to common Cinnamon ; fracture clear, with very few 
fibres in the internal part. It is in general thicker and more 
compact than the two former; its bitterness appears rather 
fainter, but its smell much more perceptible. M. Ruiz regards 
this bark as the richest in quinic acid, and least disagreeable to 
sick persons. 
We have already observed, that adidas bark must not be con- 
founded with the Peruvian of commerce, © the.goodness of which 
pale on cae € dae of ake reece “es — iti is composed.* . 
eT es > Hes 
th. ea Y i 
“TV. THE SLENDER (pExcapa). 
Tue bark known by the term delgada or delgadilla, eeickaek 
to the C. hirsuta Flor. Peruv.t Its external surface is rather 
rough, with small transversal clefts, and is of a clear grey, from 
the whitish lichens, less silvery than those of the C. nitida, by 
which it is mostly covered. The parts destitute of this covering 
Mesbit a rusty colour, especially when viewed through a good 
lens; it is remarkable for its fineness, being nearly half a line 
in thicknawaled two or three lines in diameter, the fracture clear 
and resinous, with some extremely small filaments in the inter- 
nal part 5 it is well rolled, and has much affinity with the pOERET 
* We eve never been able exactly to ascertain whats is s the Persvian bark of commerce, Ss 
have applied to all the druggists in the capital, and can affirm that all the Quinquinas they 
have shewn us have little resemblance to each other, It is even to be found of different 
qualities at the same druggists. We have often met with thick barks of the good species. of 
Loxa, some smaller barks of the same species, and a great quantity of inferior species. 
+ Foliis ovalibus, crassis, margine reflexis, terminalibus, subcordatis, floribus corymbosis; 
corollis purpurascentibus tomentosis, limbo hirsuto. 
_tree grows to the height of about five yards, Having attained its developement, it 
becomes surrounded with shoots springing in a vertical direction from its root, and forming 
with the principal trunk an oval surface with the appearance of a dome. It_ grows in the 
mountains of Pillao, Acomayo, and other places of Panatahuas, 
