el a 
_ ipa alicujus Pea (p. 5 
vidson 
THREE NEW PERYMENIUMS 137 
as epee a em. longi 3:5 mm. lati. Corolle disci flay in den- 
tibus puberule 4 mm. longe (tubulo 0°9 mm.). Palew scarios« 
acute subearinates ad apicem spinulosm 5 mm. longe. Achenia 
§ 
nga; ariste pappi ca. 16 caduce tenuissime strigillose valde 
inequales (una vel duabus salto longioribus).—Prru: District 
Amazonas, Chachapoyas, Mathews (Hb. Brit. Mus., Hb. Kew 
AN. OVERLOOKED CINCHONA. 
By James Britten, F.L.S. 
In revising our Biographical Index for the proposed new 
edition, we endeavoured to obtain more information about Richard 
is further described on its title-page as “an attempt towards a 
general analysis and compendious t sesuaene Oh of the genus of Cin- 
chona”’ (London, 1784, 8vo, pp. 123); and in the hope that this 
might furnish further information about him, I consulted the 
work in the British Museum. In this hope I was disappointed ; 
ee the fact that Kentish was then living at Huntingdon, that 
he was a member of the Royal Medical Society at Edinburgh and 
a cictepbntind member of a Bogisty of Scottish Antiquaries, 
and that he was event tly a competent botanist, pothiin further 
was elicited. But the full ‘iesorigtion which he gave of his “new 
species ’’ appears a necessitate a change of nomenclatae; in any 
case, it seems worth while to call attention to a na e the origin 
his treatise: he gives a Latin pone and states that Mr. 
Davyj ; 
lo 
cymosis calyx quinquefidus. Corolla monopetala infundibuli- 
ribie lain linearibus. Pistillum capitatum. - Antherse eaten 
Semina multa, alata. Capsula biloculari ovali striata. Folia 
longa, disticha. ee inter nemora, locis umbrosis, ‘ited 
im? 
un th, 1784. refa, ote 
Sioa x vob ene “an ingenious apothecary in Henrietta Street, 
t en,” who had examined the specimens and identified 
JOURNAL OF “Borany.—Von. 53. ([May, 1915.] M 
