Cinchona. mntandria monogynia: j 5 5 



situations where it is found nearly the whole year round. In the latter 

 c untry it is found on the Pundooa hills, blossoming in September. 



Ncwar and Parbwteeya, Toongnws*. 



Beng. Usookooli. 



A branchy small tree, about sixteen feet in height, with a prefty 

 even trunk, which grows to a diameter of six inches. Bark thin, 

 . brownish, uneven ; wood close-grained, pale, almost white. Branch' 

 es opposite, ash-coloured, dotted with callous small points ; while 

 young reddish, slightly pubescent. — Leaves opposite, spreading, 

 approximate, ovate-oblong, acuminate, with acute base, margins 

 ciliate, somewhat undulate, from four to six inches long, coriaceous, 

 perfectly smooth, rather shining above, pale and opaque underneath, 

 with elevated villous rib and parallel, approximate, oblique nerves ; 

 a tuft of hairs in the axils of the latter, — Petiol round, from an 

 inch to an inch and half long, often reddish, with a few short hairs.— 

 Stipules very deciduous, lanceolate, ending in a long channelled 

 acumen, smooth, five lines long. — Panicle terminal, sessile, ovate, 

 about as long as the uppermost leaves, with decussate ramifica^ 

 tions, densely covered with white, soft hoariness. Bractes opposite 

 under each division, and at the base of the pedicels, linear, long, very 

 deciduous. — Flowers large and showy, of a beautiful pink or rose- 

 colour, fragrant, ternate. — Calyx hoary, supported by a short, fleshy 

 pedicel ,• lacinice erect, linear, acute, rather narrower at the base, 

 which appears to be jointed, caducous, measuring from six to eight 

 lines, sometimes an inch long, somewhat unequal, frequently unequi- 

 lateral, coloured and smooth within. — Corolla slender, twice as lono- 

 as the calyx, smooth, fleshy; tube eylindric, somewhat widening 

 towards the naked, pervious throat ; limb spreading, about half the 

 length of the tube; lacinia, sub-rotund, obtuse, crenulate, concave, 

 «ub-cordate at the base. — Stamina inserted under the entrance to 

 the tube ; filaments very short, authers erect, lanceolate, not reaching 

 above the throat. — Ovarium oblong-cuneate, hoary, fleshy, bilocular, 

 ovula very densely applied to the septal, fleshy placenta. Style filiform, 



Stigma clavate, fleshy, bipartite ; lobes lanceolate with sub-revolute 



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