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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



thin albumen, enveloping a small straight embryo, with cylindrical 

 inferior radicle and elliptical or oval and flattened cotyledons. 



The Cinchonas, of which there are in reality only a score of species' 



Cinchona succiiubra. 



4 



Fig. 341. Floriferous branch (^). 



though double or more have been distinguished, are trees and shrubs 

 of the Andes of the northern part of South America. The leaves 



1 H. B. Fl. ^gtiinoct. t. 10, 47.— R. et Pay. 

 Fl. Per. t. 191, 192, 194, 195, 224.— Miq. De 

 Cinch. Spec. Quibusd. Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iv. 

 263. — Markh. Cinch. Spec. New-Gran. (Lond. 

 1867).— W^EDD. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. o, xi. 346 ; 

 xii. 24.— How. Bull. Soc. B>t. Fr. xvii. t. 3; 



Quinol. East Ind. Plantat. (Lond. 1876).— G. Pl. 

 Des Quinq. (Par. 1864) ; Diet. Fncycl. Sc. Med. 

 ser. 3, i. 272.— Karst. Fl. Colomb. t. 8-12, 22, 

 23, 26 (1861) ; Medic. Chinar. N.-Gran. (Berl ' 

 1858).— Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 5364, 6052 

 Walp. Eep. ii. 509; vi. 64 ; Ajin. ii. 782 ; v. 128. 





