CINCHONA LEDGERIANA A DISTINCT SPECIES. 328 
same results have been even more marked in Java. We _— hope 
for some direct evidence on the subject, however, in time, as Mr, 
Moens is now condue eting experiments in artificial hybridisation 
with a view . comparison of the results with the naturally- 
sandal sport 
So much satiehie attaches to this Cinchona that, though it has 
been —— sped _~ jes of three fine plates in 
Howard’s sumptu volume,* I thought that a oa 
unsuitable situation, and flowering at an earlier age than would be 
the case with a more healthy subject. But there was then little 
choice as to specimens in Ceylon, where we have but few adult 
trees of the Anes 
y dried specimens of some of em some trees from Java, for 
which I am indebted to Mr. ‘Matos 
Cincnona Lepeerrana, Moens, MSS. 
C. Calisaya, Wedd., var. Ledgeriana, Howard, Quinol. Ind. Plant., 
p. 84, tt. 4—6 ‘(187 6). 
ves when adult sict head from 5 oe lanceolate t to oval or to 
Ww 
end, apex sub-acute (rarely acute) or sub-obtuse, base much 
attenuate into the short petiole, always perfectly glabrous on both 
surfaces, subcoriaceous, often wavy, full deep green, paler beneath, 
shining but not polished above, the base of the midrib and petiole 
more or less stained with orange-pink, the veins apoio 
beneath, scrobicules not eo gree mostly confined to the upper 
vein- -angles, stipules enclosing the terminal bud, quickly caducous, 
roi gal oblong, subacute, glabrous, keeled, and with numerous 
el veinlet 
* Quinol. Ind. Plant., tt, 4. 5, 6. : oes net 
always used the terms “ lanceo and “ ova 
oe dig aes books, eh d more precisely oe in this Journal, 
1871, p. 370. But several descriptive botanists use the t “lanceolate 
toe hich I am a 
ov ate, L hy wiv ae the Nicoadeat diameter below the middle; whilst “oval” is 
employed with pein laxity for several very different outlines 
