530° PENTANDRIA MONOGYNTA, Cinchona, 
ingly numerous, exquisitely fragrant. Calya superior, five- 
toothed. Corel one-petalled, funnel-formed, downy. Tube 
long. Border five- parted ; divisions oval, spreading, not 
half the length of the tube. Filaments five, short, inserted 
into the mouth of the tube. .Anthers erect, one-third within 
the tube. Germ oval. Style twice the length of the tube. 
Stigma headed, Capsule oblong, crowned with the remains 
of the calyx, about as thick asa ‘field bean, but twice as long, 
four-striated, marked with small white, elevated specks, two- 
celled, two-valved, opening from the top; partition contrary. 
Receptacle slender, angular, length of the capsule, affixed 
lengthways to the suture of the partition. Seeds from six to 
twelve in each cell; chesnut-coloured, imbricated, oblong, 
eompressed, enlarged all round by a membranaceous jagged 
wing, which at the base is split up to the seed itself, ; 
Obs. The infusion’ of one fresh leaf in water all night had 
little taste, but struck quickly a deep purplish blue with a 
ehalybeate, The two inner coats of the bark (the outer light 
spongy stratum is tasteless,) possess both the bitterness and 
astringency of Peruvian bark, and 1 think when fresh ma 
stronger degree ; the bitterness is not so quickly communi- 
cated to the taste on chewing the bark, as that of the former, 
but is much more durable, and ~—— about the upper ae 
of the fauces. 
‘The wood is firm, eheied. pele of a pale mahogany cO- 
pal and very useful for nan purposes, : 
 Arborebenl Tetieds ovate, downy ; floral Yoloured a re- 
ticulate, Thyrses terminal and axillary, drooping. Stipules 
_ oblong, fringed with coloured glands, . Border of the corol 
urceolate. Partition of the capsule contrary. j 
A native of the interior parts of Bengal, where it was dis- 
‘covered by Dr. William Carey, and by him sent to this gar- 
poo say a grr enable 
cy eee 2uSe age: e 2 
