-QUINQUINAS 
RECENTLY DISCOVERED BY TAFALLA. 
I. Cascarilla de hoja aguila, C. gucustifolia, Flor. Per.* 
Irs fark is s designated. by the following ‘characters : -Sur- 
face rough with transyersal fissures more or less deep; epider- 
mis fine, very adhesive, of an ashy tawny, with whitish and 
blackish spots,t internally of rather a darker red than ‘that of 
Manilla Cinnamon ; of the middle size. The thickest barks are 
nearly an inch in circumference, and the smallest are of the size 
of a goose-quill; thickness a line or less ; fracture easy with some 
fibrous filaments; taste bitter, styptic, and nauseous; smell 
faint and disagreeable. This bark is not much rolled, and is in 
little repute ; it is found mixed in considerable quantities in the 
chests of common Quinquina brought from America, or com- 
pounded by the Eanongoy 2 ties helen manner. a 
et 
* Foliis ovatis acutis, penicstt edbatibies Prevhcate, ret Soalidts MRE It 
grows in the lower woods of the Andes of Peru near the River Taso; flowers in the months 
of April, May, and June, 
+ This character readily distinguishes when it is mingled with barks of red Cit ila: and 
its nauseous taste decidedly separates it from the Quinquinas of Loxa, with which its fineness 
-and even its internal colour might cause it to be confounded, 
