CINCHONA. ORD. XIV. Rubiacex. Bs 27 
natives of Peru and Chili, and seven have been found by Mutis,* in the 
neighbourhood of Santa Fé. It is probable that very many more remain 
undescribed. The Edinburgh College formerly enumerated three varieties 
of the Peruvian, viz. the common or pale bark, the red, and_ the yellow ; but 
it has been long since ascertained by the Spanish botanists, that these barks 
not only belong to distinct species, but that, probably, each of them is 
taken indiscriminately from several different species. The first of these is 
now generally referred to the cinchona lancifolia of Mutis; the second, to 
the cinchona cordifolia of the same botanist, (under which he includes the 
cinchona purpurea and micrantha of the flora Peruviana, and the cinchona ' 
ovata of Ruiz;) and the third to. the eehone oblongifolia of Mutis; the 
_magnifolia of Ruiz and Pavon. 
CINCHONA LANCIFOLIA.+ 
THE cinchona lancifoliat grows to a great height and bulk, particularly 
before the great demand for the cinchona bark led to the destruction 
* Mutis was a native of Cadiz, who went to Santa Fé in 1760, as physician to the 
Viceroy, Don Pedro Misia de la Cerda. He discovered the Cinchona, in the forests be- 
tween Gauduas and Santa Fé, in 1772; although the credit of this discovery was at- 
tempted to be wrested from him by Don Sebastian José Lopez Ruiz; who, however, 
from his own documents, (transmitted by his brother to Baron Humboldt, to prove the 
priority of his discovery) appears to have known the Cinchona about Honda, only since 
1774. 
+ We refrain from giving any synonyms under this species, because they are involved 
in such great obscurity. Lambert, in his Illustrations of the Genus Cinchona, published 
in London, 1821, considers the Cinchona lancifolia of Mutis, together with the Cinchona 
lanceolata of Ruiz and Pavon, Cinchona nitida, Cinchona angustifolia, and Cinchona 
cucumefolia (MSS.) of the same authors, to be identical with the Cinchona Officinalis 
ef Linneus; and finally, as being the Cinchona condaminea, Humb. § Bonpl. PI. 
ZEquinoct. v. i. p. 43. t. 10. under which name Mr. Lambert adduces the following spe- 
cific character :—Cinchona Condaminea. Leaves ovato-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, and 
as well as the branchlets, very shining; panicle brachiate, much branched, and smooth ; 
calycine teeth, ovate acuminate ; segments of the corolla linear-lanceolate ; stigma emar- 
ginate ; capsules ovate, ribbed. 
+ The bark of this species was formerly described under the vague name of Cinchona 
oficinalis. 
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