542 BOTANICAL DESCRIPTIONS App. B. 



variegatus ; intiis obscure fulvus, amarissimus, acidulus non ingratus, in 

 commercio et in febribus tertianis maguo usu fit. 



Bami seniores teretes, scabri, fusco atri-cinerco colore variegati, teneri 

 leviter tetragoni, fusci. 



Folia opposita, petiolata, obovata, ovali-oblonga ovato-oblongaque, inte- 

 gerrima, nitidissima, decurrentia, marginibus ad basim revolutis, subtus 

 venosa, venis purpurascentibus, glandulis rotundis oblongisque, supra pro- 

 minentibus, subtus concavis, ad sinus nervorum ortum insertis, villis longis 

 albicantibus vestitis. 



Petioli subtus semiteretes, supra planiusculi, purpurei. 



Stipulce interfoliacese, opposit£e, supra-axillares, basi coadunataj, oblonga?, 

 sessiles, obtusse, intus rubescentes, marginibus reflexis. 



Panicula terminalis, composita, subracemosa, rubescens. 



Pedunculi multiflori, tetragoni. 



Flores breviter pcdicellati. 



PedicelU bracteolis ovatis acumine subulato concavis ad basim stipati, 

 persistentes. 



Calyx parvus, purpureus. 



Corolla alba, extus dilute rubicunda, vix semipollicaris, laciniis intus 

 villosis, villis albicantibus. 



Capsula oblonga, decem-striata, rubescens, bivalvis, valvulis basi hian- 

 tibus. 



Semina ovalia, fulva, alls membranaceis oblongis injequaliter denticulate 

 cincta. 



Ealitai in Andium montibus altis, nemorosis, frigidis, ad Pampamarca, 

 Cliacaliuasi, Casapi, Casapillo, Cayumba, Sapan, Cuchero, aliisque tractibus, 

 et in montibus Provinciarum Huamalies, Tarma, et Jauja. 



Floret Maio, Junio, et Julio. 



Vulgo : Cascarilla fina aut Quinafina. Cascarilla lustrosa (^nicheii'). 



{From WeddeWs ^ Histoire Naturelle des Quinquinas,^ p. 47.) 



Chinchona Nitida. — C. foliis lanceolato-obovatis, acutis, basi attenuatis, 

 utrinque glabris, nitidis vel inferne leviter pilosis, escrobiculatis ; filamentis 

 antheras a?quantibus ; capsula anguste lanceolata, latitudine sua duplo lon- 

 giori ; seminibus lanceolatis, margine denticulatis. 



Arbor 8-12 m. alt., trunco recto, tereti, crassitudine corporis bumani ; 

 coma parum frondosa. 



Cortex tninci crassus, peridermide rimosa, obscure brunnea ; ramorum 

 peridermis intequalis, plus minus sulcato-rimosa, brunneo-cinerascens. 



Folin lanceolato- vel oblongo-obovata, 9-10 cm. long., 25 mm. lat., 



