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DESCRIPTION OF THE TREE. 
KNOWN IN THE KINGDOM OF PERU UNDER THE NAME OF — 
- QUINQUINO, 
AND OF ITS BARK, CALLED QUINQUINA, 
WHICH'IS. DISTIN€T FROM THE QUINA OR CASCARILLA, 
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BY DON HIPPOLITO RUIZ. 
Tus Quinquino* is a branching and elegant tree, which grows 
to the height of thirty varas and upwards. The trunk is thick, 
straight, smooth, covered like the branches with a grey, 
coarse, compact, heavy bark, granulated, and of a pale straw - 
colour in the interior; filled with resin, which, according as 
it abounds more or less, changes the colour to citron, yellow, 
red, or dark chesnut; the smell and taste are grateful, bal- 
samic, and aromatic, resembling those of the Red Peruvian Bal- 
sam sold in the druggists’ shops under the name of White 
Balsam. The branches extend almost horizontally. The leaves 
* Myroxylon peruiferum. Flor. Per. Mss. cum cone. Myroxylon peruiferum Linn. Supp. 
pl. 34 and 233. Hoitziloxitt. Hernandez Hist. Mex. p. 51. Edit. Matr. tom. 1, p. 373. 
The description and plate of the Myrospermum of Jacq. Amer, 120, tab. 174, fig. 34. com- 
pared with mine and with the description of the younger Linneeus, indicate clearly that the My- 
rorylon and Myrospermum are species of the same genus. Also the generic notes with which 
Linnzeus forms his incomplete generic character of Toluifera, agree with those of Myroxylon and 
Myrospermum, My observations lead me to think that those three genera ought to be placed 
under one only, that of Myroxylon, on account of its being the most known and. best dea 
_ Scribed,+ 
¢ See my remarks on these Genera in Brande’s Journal, No. 19, p.28,—A. BL, 
