CINCHONACEJE. 



the pedicels. Peduncles corymbose, in the axils of the upper leaves, 

 forming rather a small thyrse. Calyx with a tomentose tube; the limb 

 campanulate, smooth, 5-toothed : teeth triangular, acute. I have seen 

 no fully expanded corolla ; but it appears to be like that of C. lanceolata, 

 This is certainly a very different species from C. lanceolata, with 

 which it is associated by M. De Candolle, and from C. Condaminea to 

 which Mr. Lambert unites it. The figure in the Flora Peruviana is ex- 

 cellent. I have examined 6 indifferent specimens in Mr. Lambert's 

 herbarium ; it does not occur in Dr. Thomson's collection. According to 

 Ruiz this is considered in the provinces of Huanuco, Tarma, Huamalies, 

 and Xauxa, to be the best of all the barks and it fetched in his time 

 the highest price ; it is called Cascarillo or Quino fino, the same name 

 as is given to C. vricrantha bark, and several others. 



Po'ppig has a bark called Case, hoja de Oliva, which he believes to be 

 produced by this, aud of which he speaks thus : " This kind of bark 

 is only known in small quantities, and is not regularly collected. It 

 resembles the finest kinds of Loxa bark, and excels them in the resinous 

 and astringent flavour. The tree itself, which is unknown to me, grows 

 only upon the coldest mountains, and is said to have a stem scarcely 8 

 feet high, straight, and producing very little bark, but which is so highly 

 esteemed, that the viceroy and corregidores purchase it all, to send as 

 presents to the king and the grandees of Spain, so that it is never seen 

 in commerce* The flower is of a bright red, covered with a white 

 tomentum inside, and expands in May." This bark has been described 

 by Ruiz in the Quinologia, but he did not recognise it as belonging to 

 C. nitida, and it is very doubtful whether it is produced by that species. 



831. C. Condaminea Humb. and Bonpl pi. ceq. i. 33. t. 10. 



Quinaquina Condam. in act. par. 1738 Near Loxa in the 



mountains of Cajanuma-Uritucinga, and in those of Boqueron, 

 Villonaco and Monje ; it is also found near Guancabamba and 

 Ayavaca in Peru. It always grows on micaceous schist, and 

 rises as high as 7500 feet above the level of the sea, first ap- 

 pearing at the elevation of 5700 feet ; so that it occupies a zone 

 of 1 800 feet. Humboldt. 



Twigs quite smooth as high as the inflorescence. Leaves quite 

 smooth at all periods of their growth, usually ovate-lanceolate, occa- 

 sionally narrower and only lanceolate, in some specimens ovate; of a 

 rather thin texture, not at all shining on the upper side, or but little so 

 in some specimens ; furnished almost always at the axils of the veins 

 underneath when full grown, with a pit or scrobicula, which is either 

 naked or ciliated, but when young indistinctly scrobiculate, or not at 

 all. Petioles smooth, about the length of the leaves; stipules oblong, 

 obtuse, membranous, smooth. Peduncles panicled, corymbose, in the 

 axils of the upper leaves, forming a large loose thyrse, covered with a 

 thick short down. Tube of the calyx downy like the pedicels ; limb 

 very shortly urceolate, 5-toothed, pubescent, not shining ; with the 

 teeth roundish-triangular, acute. Tube of the corolla slender, about four 

 times as long as the tube of the calyx, tomentose; limb very shaggy 

 internally. Of this I have examined 6 specimens in Mr. Lambert's 

 herbarium, and 15 in that of Dr. Thomson ; many of them very fine 

 ones. They all correspond in having a very short downy limb to the 

 calyx, and a loose inflorescence, but they vary a good deal in the form 



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