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lour. An extract is obtained from it which is in considerable re- 
pute, gad. much used in | oman ketets: 
Ill. Red Cascarilla of Santa Fe. 
M. Ruiz has transmitted to us a sample under the peculiar 
name of Red Quinquina of Santa Fe, and which he does not 
confound with the former. Its colour: partakes rather more of 
the tawny, its fracture is cleaner on the exterior edge, and with 
long fibres on the interior. Its taste has something meee a 
which i is not perceptible i in — former. 
ai i Onions laccifera of Tafalla, vulgé Socehi.* 
M. Tafalla, who discovered this species, sent the barks of it to 
Europe in- 1798; they are the highest in colour of all those 
that cirenlate under the name of Red Quinquina. This new 
S me ute in Tespect to its ie febniuge peusls es “ ; 
Ruiz places it among the 
A thick spongy bark; the’ external suFhite rough with annu- 
Yar fissures more or less approximated; the epidermis very slen- 
der, of a tawny ash colour of different shades, the internal sur- 
_ face darker, of a colour ré sembling carmine or lake ; the interior 
of the bark tawny, resembling rhubarb; thickness from two 
to four lines; specific gravity considerable notwithstanding its 
spongy appearance; fracture resinous on the exterior, bordered — 
* This tree grows in the lower woods iia in the valleys of Chicoplaya, ‘Tis bark is known 
‘by the inhabitants under the denomination of Soechi. The extract obtained from it is of a 
high colour and transparent. M. 'Tafalla says, that on scraping the internal surface of the fresh 
barks ‘a juice is obtained, which inspissated in the sun serves as a substitute for lake. A 
Specimen of this inspissated juice has been sent from Lima to M. Ruiz, by Father Gon-_ 
zales, under the name of Laca Cinchonica. It is conjectured that the tree may belong to a 
new genus, between Macronemun and ik aeeree and materials are expected Sup M. “‘Ta- 
falla which will decide this: Geeition. 
