154 tkjtandria mono&ynia. (Jinchona. 



Specimen* are preserved in the late Dr. Heyne's herbariunj 

 without any name. Its native place is presumed to be Wynaad. 



Branches ash-coloured, strongly knobbed with the vestiges of 

 fallen leaves; green shoots much compressed, perfectly smooth. — 

 Leaves opposite, spreading, very much crowded at the apex of the 

 branches, broad.obovate, apex rounded, sometimes sub-retuse, with 

 a lanceolate nairow acumen, base acute, perfectly smooth, the un- 

 der surface beautifully reticulate, the axils of the nerves pubescent; 

 four inches long.— Petiols round, naked, smooth, from two to three 

 inches long. — Stipules ovate, acute, gtand-ciliate, very deciduous. — 

 Racemes \try slender, cylindric, erect, long-peduncled, axillary at 

 the end of the branches, and terminal, simple or with one or two sub- 

 opposite branches, from five to six inches long. — Peduncles rather 

 compressed, from one to two inches long ; the cylindric, thickish 

 rachis villous, greyish. At the apex «f each peduncle there is a pallid, 

 spread'mgyjiuralleaf, of a lanceolate, acuminate form, two inches long, 

 convex and a little rugose above, glaucous, concave, beautifully vein" 

 ed and reticulate, slightly pubescent underneath, equalling in length 

 its slender round glaucous footstalk. — Flowers very small, sessile, 

 fascicled, approximate.— Calucine segments lanceolate, as well aa 

 the ovarium pubescent. Corolla covered with grey pubescence; 

 tube short, limb sub-campanulate, with lanceolate, acute, laciniae. — ■ 

 Ovarium oblong supported by a subulate bractlet. — Style almost 

 twice as long as the corolla. Stigma sub* capitate. 



1 . Cinchona gratissima, Wall. 



Leaves ovate -oblong, acuminate, shining above, villous under* 

 rteath. Panicle terminal, many-flowered. Calyx hoary, with very 

 long, linear, deciduous lacinits. Corolla smooth, with a cylindric, 

 long tube, and concave sub-rotund lobes. 



A native of Nipal and Silhet. Jn the former country I have 

 found it in great abundance on Nag-CVjoon, and some of the other 

 smaller hills in the valley ; also at Bechiako and Koolakan ; it delights 

 in exposed, rather naked situations, blossoming according to the 



