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CINCHONA OFFICINALIS 
OFFICINAL CINCHONA 3 
Or PERUVIAN BARK TREE 
Peruvianus cortex. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. 
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Rofen. Dijf. de Cori. peruv. Lnrfen. Dijf. de Cort. p 
et Puliney. Dijf. de Cinchona off. 
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Clafs Pentandrla. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 228. 
Effl Gen. Cb. Cor. infundibulif. apice lanata. Caps, infera, 2-locu 
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laris, diOepimento parallelo. — Sent, imbricata. Jacq. 
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Sp* Ch* C. foliis ellipticis fubtus pubefcentibus corolla?, limbo lanato* 
TH I S tree is very lofty, fending off large branches, covered with 
m an ovate to an elliptical 
roueh brown bark : the leaves 
vary 
ihape, the larger approaching more to the former, and the fmaller to 
the latter figure ; they are all entire, nerved, fmooth on the upper 
fide, on the under tomentofe, and ftand in pairs upon footftalks : the 
flowers are produced in panicles, and ftand upon flender pedicles: the 
calyx is fmall, bell-fhaped, and cut at the margin into live minute 
fegments: the corolla is funnel-fhaped, confifting of a long cylindrical 
tube, divided at the limb into five fegments, which are ovate, or ob 
long, fpreading, on the upper fide red, on the under woolly, and 
fringed at the edges: the five filaments are briftly, placed in the middle 
twilled in a fpirai 
furnifhed with oblong anthers, 
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of the tube, and 
manner : the germen is ovate : the ftyle is filiform, fomewhat longer 
than the ftamina, and furnifhed with a round ftigma : the capfule 
divides into two parts, the cells of which are feparated by a parallel 
partition : the feeds are fmall and numerous. 
This 
