Oviginal Articles. 
CINCHONA LEDGERIANA A DISTINCT SPECIES. 
By Henry Tren, M.B.} F.L,S. 
(Puates 222 & 223), 
Att who have followed the progress of the great and wonder- 
fully successful experiment carried out in the East during the 
last twenty years, will be aware how prominent a part as a 
some and hopelessly variable forms of C. Calisaya, the plant is 
now the object of careful cultivation; whilst in Southern India 
and Ceylon private planting enterprise especially has not been 
There is ( 
this species, but it is necessary to mention that the tree is only 
known to botanists in a cultivated state. All existing plants in 
Dec., 1865, and sent to Java, where it was raised and the plants 
carefully attended to under the care of Van Gorkom, then director 
of the plantations. A portion, however, of the same seed was 
acquired b oney, a planter , Whence some 
found its way to the Government plantations at Ootacamund, an 
a small quantity to those at Darjeeling. Hence it resulted that 
plants of this valuable kind were being grown both in India and 
* J. E. Howard in Pharm. Journ., March 18th, 1880. 
N.s. von. 10. [Novemser, 1881.] 
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