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CALISAYA. 
Tue species to which this bark belongs is unknown in Spain. 
It is merely presnmed that M. Bezares, a botanist attached to . 
the expedition of Peru, discovered the trees of it in the moun- 
tains of Monzon, but the descriptions and the samples have not 
yet arrived. We have observed that M. Ruiz says in his Qui- | 
nologia, that the Calisaya might be only the bark of the C. lan- 
ceolata, or lampina, stripped of its epidermis ; he has reverted to 
this opinion after the notes which he has received from his suc 
cessors in America. M. Zea, who finds everywhere the Quin- 
quina of Santa Fe, pretends that it is no other than a mixture 
of the orange-coloured and yellow of Mutis.* This is not the 
opinion of the botanists of Peru, who regard the Calisaya and 
the orange-coloured as species entirely distinct. 
We shall not enter into the discussions of these learned gentle- 
men. It is not for us to pronounce on the botanical defini- 
tions of the species circulating in commerce ; our object is to 
describe them, and to collect, with regard to arrangement, the 
opinions of those who have a right to give them in consequence 
of their long botanical excursions on La mountains where the 
Quinquinas grow. 
_ As the Calisaya is sold in commerce under three different 
names, and as the three barks, which appear to us to possess 
different characters, belong, according to the opinion of Ruiz, to 
_* Itis really extraordinary that, while the enthusiasts of Mutis regard the orange-coloured 
Quinguina of Santa Fe as extremely rare, they meet with it in a great number of common 
barks ; ‘they tell us, on the one hand, that scarcely in a thousand trees of Quinquina is to be 
seen one of this Species, and then they find it in every direction. May not this contrariety be 
ihe result of a little ill humour among some of the members of the two Sper: : 
