342 



NATUBAL KISTOBT OF PLANTS. 



thin ialbumen, enveloping a small straight embryo, with cylindrical 

 inferior radicle and elliptical or oval and flattened cotyledons. 



The Cinchonas, of which there are in reality only, a score of species ' 



Cinchona sucdiubra. 



Fig. 341. Floriferous branch (J). 



though double or more have been distinguished, are trees and shrubs 

 of the Andes of the northern part of South America. The leaves 



' H. B. Fl. Mqninoet. t. 10, 47.— R. et Pay. 

 Fl. Per. t. 191, 192, 194, 195, 224.— Mia. Be 

 Cinch. Spec. Cluihiad. Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iv. 

 263. — Makkb". Cinch. Spec. New-Gran. (Loud. 

 1867).— Wedd, Ann. So. Nat. ser. 5, xi. 346 ; 

 xii. 24.— How. Bull. Sjc. Bot. Fr. xvii. t. 3 ; 



Qttinol. East Ind. Plantat. (Lond. 1876).— G. Pl. 

 Des Quinq. (Par. 1864) ; Diet. JSncyel. Se. Med. 

 ser. 3, i. 272.— Karst. ~Fl. Colomb. t. 8-12, 22, 

 23, 26 (1861) ; Medio. Chinar. N.-Gran. (Berl. 

 1858).— Hook. p. Bot. Mag. t. 5364, 6052.— 

 Walp. Rep. ii. 609; vi. 64 ; Ann. ii. 782 ; v. 128. 



