CINCHONA 635 



brown, with grayish patches of foliaceous lichens, longitudinally 

 wrinkled, with few usually widely separated transverse fissures; 

 inner surface reddish-brown, distinctly striate; fracture smooth in 



FIG. 280. Typical specimens of Cinchona succiruba from Java. From a photo- 

 graph by Powers-Weightman-Rosengarten Co., Philadelphia. 



periderm, in inner bark with projecting bast fibers; odor distinct; 

 taste bitter, astringent. 



INNER STRUCTURE. See Figs. 280 and 281. 



