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plied to several kinds of Cinchona-bark ; 



; also the Brazilian name for some other 

 febrifugal barks, as those of Discaria febri- 



; fuga, Esenbeckia febrifuga, Ticorea febri- 



■ fuga, Bortia brasiliana, and Solatium Pseu- 

 doguina. — BLANCA. A Mexican name 

 for Cascarilla-bark. — DE SERRA. The 



I bark of Eemijia ferruginea and Veltozii. — 

 DE LA ANGOSTURA, or DE LAGUAYNA. 

 A Venezuelan name for the bark of Galipea 

 Cusparia. — DE REMIJO. The same as 

 Quina de Serra. — DO CAMPO. The bark 

 of Stryehnos Pseudoquina. 



QUINANCY-WORT. Asperula cynan- 

 chica. 



QULNAQUINA. Cinchona Condaminea. 



QUINATE. Growing in fives ; as when 

 a petiole bears five leaflets from the same 

 point ; it is then, however, digitate. 



QUINCE. Cydonia vulgaris. — , BAS- 

 TARD. Pyrus Chamcemespilus. —, BEN- 

 GAL. JEgle Marmelos. 



QOTNCHAMALIUM. A genus of Santa- 

 lacece, consisting of Chilian herbs said to 

 be parasitical upon roots of other plants, 

 like our Thesiums. The flowers have a long 

 tubular perianth with five short lobes, and 

 each perianth is surrounded at the base by 

 a small four-toothed involucre often taken 

 for an external calyx, and which distin- 

 guishes the genus from others of the tribe 

 TJiesiece, to which it belongs. There are 

 three or four species known, of little gene- 

 ral interest. 



QUINCUNCIAL. A kind of aestivation, 

 in which out of five parts two are exterior, 

 two interior, and the fifth covers the in- 

 terior with one margin, and has its other 

 margin covered by the exterior ; as in the 

 calyx of the rose. 



QUIXOA Clienopodium Qidnoa. 



QUINQUENERVIS. When there are 

 five ribs all proceeding from the same 

 point of the base. 



QUINQUINA. (Fr.) Cinchona. —.BRA- 

 ZILIAN. The bark of Cosmibuena hexan- 

 dra. —COLORADO. The same as Brazi- 

 lian Quinquina. — DE PIAUHI. The 

 bark of Exostemma Souzanum. — DES 

 ANTILLES. The same as Quinquina Piton. 



— FAUX. Iva frutescens. —INDIGENE. 

 A Mauritian name for Musscenda Landia. 



— PITON. The febrifugal emetic bark of 

 Exostemma caribceum and E. floribundum. 



QUINQUINO. Myrospermum peruiferum. 



QUINSY-BERRY. The Black Currant, 

 Eibes nigrum. 



QUIN3YW0RT. Asperula cynanchica. 



QUINTEFEUILLE. (Fr.) Potentilla rep- 

 tans and other species. — BATARDE. 

 Sibbaldia. - ROUGE DES MARAIS. Co- 

 marum palustre. 



QUINTINE. A supposed integument of 

 an ovnle, the fifth counting from the ex- 

 terior ; but in reality the skin of the nu- 

 cleus. 



QUINTINIA. A genus of Escallonia- 

 cea?, nearly related to the well-known Escal- 

 lonias of our gardens, and differing from 

 them in the three to five instead of two- 

 celled ovary. Four species are known, two 

 from New Zealand, and two from South 

 Australia; all of them bushes or small trees, 

 with elliptical or lance-shaped leaves, often 

 covered with scurfy scales, and white flow- 

 ers the size of those of the privet, disposed 

 in axillary or terminal racemes or panicles. 

 Each flower consists of a calyx with a five- 

 toothed border, five petals, a like number 

 of stamens, and a three to five-lobed style 

 crowning the ovary, which when ripe is a 

 small angular capsule with numerous deli- 

 cately winged seeds. The genus bears the 

 name of La Quintinie, a French writer on 

 Horticulture. [A. A. B.] 



QUINTUPLED. Multiplied by five. 



QUINTUPLE-NERVED. "When of five 

 ribs the four lateral spring from the middle 

 one above its base. 



QUISQUALIS. A genus of Combretacew, 

 confined to tropical and subtropical Asia 

 and Africa, and consisting of scandent 

 shrubs with opposite rarely alternate 

 leaves, and axillary or terminal spikes of 

 flowers which change from white to red. 

 The five-cleft calyx is deciduous; the co- 

 rolla has five oblong petals; the stamens are 

 ten in number, and project beyond the co- 

 rolla; whilst the fruit is a five-angled one- 

 seeded drupe. Q. indica is an inmate of 

 our hothouses. According to George Ben- 

 nett, a species of this genus, perhaps Q. 

 chinensis of Lindley, grows about Macao, 

 and is used by the Chinese as a vermifuge 

 under the name of Tot-chee-fa. [B. S.] 



| QUITCH. The Couch Grass, Triticum 

 repens ; also Agrostis stolonifera. 

 QUIVER-TREE. Aloe dichotoma. 



QUIVISIA. A genus of Meliacece confined 

 to Mauritius and Bourbon, and consisting 

 of four species, all of which are shrubs or 

 trees, with alternate or nearly opposite 

 simple leaves, either quite entire or on the 

 same branch lobed, and axillary flowers 

 generally arranged in racemes or corymbs. 

 The calyx is urn-shaped, and has from four 

 to five teeth ; the corolla is composed of 

 four to five short externally silky petals; 

 the stamens are from eight to ten ; the 

 stigma capitate ; and the fruit a dehiscent 

 capsule, with four or five valves and cells, 

 each cell containing two seeds. [B. S.] 



QUOYA. A* West Australian genus of 

 Verbenacece, having the habit as well as the 

 woolly stems and leaves of some of the 

 small shrubby species of Stachys. The 

 leaves are opposite and sessile, and the 

 flowers are disposed in short-stalked close 

 verticils proceeding from the axils of the 

 upper reduced leaves, and forming a long 

 terminal compound raceme, or raceme-like 

 panicle. They have a deeply two-lipped 

 villous calyx, a blue bell-shaped corolla; 

 four perfect stamens ; and a filiform style 



