258 - ORD. XIV. Conterte. cinctoNna o¥FicINaLis. 
cles: the calyx’ is small, bell-shaped, and cut at the margin into 
five minute segments: the corolla is funnel-shaped, consisting of 
a long cylindrical tube, divided at the limb into five segments, which 
are ovate, or oblong, spreading, on the upper side red, on the under 
woolly, and fringed at the edges: the five filaments are bristly, 
placed in the middie of the tube, and furnished with oblong an- 
thera, twisted in a spiral manner: the germen is ovate: the style 
is filiform, somewhat longer than the stamina, and furnished with a 
round stigma: the capsule divides into two parts, the cells of which 
are separated by a parallel partition: the seeds are small and nu- 
merous. 
This figure we have not scrupled to copy from that given by 
Mons. de la Condamine,* whose description of this tree, though 
published more than fifty years ago, being the result of a careful 
examination of the living tree in its native soil, is still the only 
one on which we can with confidence rely. 
It is a native of Peru, growing most abundantly on a Jong chain 
ef mountains extending to the north and south of Loxa, where its 
trunk frequently exceeds in bulk the body of aman. According 
- to Mr. Arrot, the soil in which these trees thrive best, is generally 
a red clayey or rocky ground, and especially on the banks of small 
rivers descending from the high mountains.” This author also 
informs us, that the properest season for cutting off the bark is from 
September to November, and the manner of conducting this we 
have related in Mr. Arrot’s own words.* On the trees being en- 
= L. c. » Phil. Trans. vol. 40. p. 83. 
* © The properest season for cutting the bark is from September to Novenhée, 
* the only time in the whole year of some intermission from the rain in the moun- 
*¢ tains. ; Having discovered a spot where the trees most abound, they first build 
“ huts for the workmen, and then a large hut wherein to put the bark in order to 
“¢ preserve it from the wet; but they let it lie there as short a time as possible, 
** having beforehand cut a road from the place where the trees grow, through the 
“* woods, sometimes three or four leagues, to the nearest plantation or farm-house 
4¢ in the low country, whither, if the rain permits them, they carry the bark forth. 
with to ry. These preparations being made, they provide each Indian (they 
