824 —_ LEDGERIANA A DISTINCT SPECIES. 
Fiowers small, on short curved pedicels and thus drooping or 
divaricate, tufted or crowded at the ends of the branches of the 
usually small rather dense pyramidal panicle; buds oblong-ovoid, 
lunt, when mature not . all er very slightly widened at the end and 
never abruptly enlarged ther ; 
Corotia with a s nae wide tube about 4+ inch long, somewhat 
inflated in the middle, pale green, lobes pure white or somewhat 
cream-coloured (very nately pinkish), the marginal hairs copious 
and long. 
Carsute short, ovoid-oblong, rarely more than % inch and 
never more than } inch in length, capped by the persistent cup- 
_ shaped calyx-limb with erect teeth. 
As with other species of Cinchona in cultivation there is in this 
a great deal of variability in the form of the leaf, even in adult 
trees. On the flowering branches they are often narrow and 
almost strap-shaped, whilst in some plants they are as broad as 
C. officinalis, var. Condaminea, from which it is indeed not always 
easy to distinguish them. The amount of red coloration in the 
veins is variable, and rarely quite absent. hough always 
absolutely glabrous when mature, this is by no means the case 
with young plants; seedlings up to a year or two old are frequently 
more or less hairy be eal but as. the trees get older this 
disappears. These young leaves are also often of very large size, 
and the upper surface usually has a velvety sheen or reflét ; not 
unfrequently the under side is of a fine purplish tint; but none of 
these points are, of much importance. The unexpanded 
leaves and the buds and young soft shoots have, however, a bronze 
or pee tint by which in a field of C. Calisaya the plants of 
C. Ledgeriana may often be picked out at first sight. When 
withering the leaves fain orange- lake to brown 
smooth; but there seems to be considerable variability in appear- 
a and I cannot learn that any guide as to quality is afforded 
e long-styled and short- “styled forms seem to be pretty 
adlaiy distributed in Ceylon specimens, perhaps the short- oh 
(with exserted stamens) ‘hes rather more frequent. I do 
observe any correlated differences in foliage or inflorescence. The 
trees flower here during the months from May to September. 
The capsules are described by Dr. King as “nearly globular,” 
but I have seen none of that form, all being as above described. 
Those ger collected were considered by Mr. Howard to be 
similar — ya, Var. microcarpa, Wedd. (figured in the 
Oraehiey: ti 
The best asks ae C. Ledgeriana from all forms of 
C. Calisaya ea foun the flowers. Their drooping habit, and 
more Pia the tire size, short inflated tube, and white colour 
of their corolla, are quite characteristic; the difference is well seen 
just uty expansion, when in C. Ca lisay ya the tube is topped by a 
