CINCHONACE.E. 



373 



losing- the down. Panicle terminal, naked, thyrsoid, smal 

 leaves subtending the 



occasionally with small 



Fig. 177. 



lower branches. Calyx 

 tomentose, with a shaj. 

 low, 5-toothed, downy 

 limb, which does not 

 alter its form after flow- 

 ering, except by enlarg- 

 ing a little and harden- 

 ing. Corolla tomentose, 

 rather irifundibuliform, 

 as small as in C. mi- 

 crantha, with the tube 

 three or four times as 

 long as that of the calyx. 

 Limb shaggy within. 

 Fruit oval, rather downy, 

 very strongly ribbed 

 when mature. 



Humboldt and Bon- 

 pland, PI. JEq. i. 65, 

 t. 19; Lindley, Fl. 

 Med. 417 ; C. Hum- 

 boldtiana, Romer and 

 Schultes, v. 13 ; De 

 Candolle, Prod. iv. 

 353. 



Grows on the Andes 

 in the vicinity of 

 Loxa, &c. Humboldt 

 and Bonpland state 

 that the bark of this 

 species is not much 

 esteemed, but that c. ovaiifoiia. 



much of it was col- 

 lected, and that it was called cascarilla peluda, or velvet-leafed quina. 

 Pereira says it is the while cinchona of Mutis. 



8. C. ovata, Ruiz and Pavon. — Branches quadrangular, smooth, except towards their 

 ends, where they are hairy rather than tomentose. Leaves large, thin, ovate-oblong, 

 when young, velvety beneath, with a short thick felt, which is detached as the leaves grow 

 older, smooth on the upper side ; when full grown obtuse or rather acute at base, with 

 smooth veins, but shaggy axils ; the uppermost leaves almost cordate. Peduncles thick, 

 quadrangular, tomentose, branched in the axils of the upper leaves, and leafy at their 

 own base, forming a coarse, compound panicle. Flowers sessile or nearly so, in thick 

 clusters. Calyx very tomentose, except the limb, which is smooth, thick, campanulate, 

 5-toothed, and apparently of a deep purple colour. Corolla purple, according to Ruiz and 

 Pavon, tomentose, with a white, spreading, shaggy limb. 



Ruiz and Pavon, Fl. Peruv. ii. 52, t. 195 ; Lindley, Flor. Med. 417. 



Inhabits close, badly-ventilated woods, in the hottest parts at the foot of the 

 Andes, near Huanaco. Dr. Lindley states that according to a note in the hand- 

 writing of M. Bonpland, in Mr. Lambert's Herbarium, it is considered by 

 him as a variety of C. cordifolia of Mutis. But Dr. Lindley says that it is 

 perfectly distinct, both from that species and the C. pubescens of Vahl. Pa- 

 von, (Quinol. Supp. 18,) also says that it is the same as C. cordifolia, pro- 

 ducing the Quina amarilla of Santa Fe, but Ruiz in his manuscripts does 



