CINCHONA VEL CHINCHONA. 397 



wrote Chondodendron ; and so the word is adopted by Poppig 1874-. 

 and Endlicher, 1 Lindleyin his Vegetable Kingdom (1853), Eichler 

 in the Florce Brasiliensis of Martins, Bentham and Hooker 2 

 (1862) ; and lastly by Baillon in his Histoire des Plantes 3 (1871). 

 With the sanction of such an overwhelming amount of 

 authority, I am satisfied to accept the name without an attempt 

 at improvement. It has served for eighty years in botanical 

 literature, and may fairly claim admittance to that of pharmacy. 



CINCHONA, OE CHINCHONA? 



IN his recently published Memoir of the Lady Ana de Osorio, 1875. 

 Countess of Chinchon, Mr. Clements E. Markham has revived 

 the discussion of a question which, so far as preponderance of 

 practice can determine anything, might now be supposed to have 

 been satisfactorily settled. It is whether the orthography Introductory 

 " Chinchona " or " Cinchona " should obtain for this now famous D "g* J ^ e pj ul 

 genus. Eeserving for a future opportunity a criticism of Mr. 

 Markham's book, we briefly indicate here his views upon this 

 subject. 



There can be no doubt that Linnaeus, in naming the genus, 

 sought to connect it with the name of the lady who is reputed 

 to have first made the healing virtues of the bark known to 

 Europe. Whether he was well acquainted with the lady's name 

 is not so clear. Mr. Markham thinks he was not, but that he Mr. Mark- 

 received his knowledge of the Countess of Chinchon through a 

 French source, and was thus misled into calling the genus 

 Cinchona in the Genera Plantarum of 1742. He further thinks 

 that Linnaeus showed his uncertainty by the orthography 

 "Cinhona" which occurred in the edition of 1764, biit that he 

 died before the error was pointed out and corrected. Mr. Mark- 

 ham sums up his arguments by stating that all authorities agree 

 that " Chinchona " is correct, and that consequently " Cinchona," 

 " Cinhona," and other forms are wrong ; that the object sought 



1 Nova Genera ac Species Plantarum quas in Eegno Chilensi, Peruviano, 

 etc., legit .... Lipsiae, ii. 1838. 



2 Genera Plantarum, i. 1862-68, index and p. 34. 



3 Monographic, des Menispermactes et des Berberidacecs, 1871, p. 36. 



