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bo. Their works are therefore filled with com- 

 plaints* of the secta diabolica de Calvino y de 

 Lutero, and against the heretics of Dutch Guy- 

 ana, who also think fit sometimes to go on 

 missions, and spread the germe of social life 

 among the savages. 



Of all the vegetable productions of those 

 countries, that which the industry of the Cata- 

 lonian Capuchins has rendered the most celebra - 

 ted is the tree, that furnishes the cortex Angostu- 

 ra?, which is erroneously designated by the name 

 of cinchona of Carony. We were fortunate 

 enough to make it first known as a new genus 

 distinct from the cinchona, and belonging to the 

 family of meliaceae, or of zanthoxylus-f-. This 



* Caulin, p. 373. Gumilla, vol, i, p. 20. Fray Pedro 

 Simon, p. 211. Lettres edif. , vol. xvi, No. 20. 



t See our Equin. Plants, vol. i, p. 61, pi. 89. Willdenow* 

 in the M4moires de V Academie de Berlin, 1802, p. 24. De 

 Candolle, Proprietes des Plantes, p. 93. Richard, in the 

 Mem de V Institut, 181 1, P. i, p. 82, Pi. 10. Beside the ticorea 

 of Aublet, there is reason to believe a second species of the 

 genus bonplandia, the real bonplandia trifoliata, also grows in 

 French Guyana. Mr. Kunth recognized it among the plants 

 of Ca}'enne sent home by Mr. Martin. At Guayaquil I had 

 inscribed the bonplandia in my Table of the Geography of 

 Plants, under the provisional name of cusparia febrifuga ; this 

 name, which has by mistake remained on the plate published 

 after my retnrn to Europe, has been copied into many works 

 on the materia medica. The bonplandia of Cavanilles is a Mex- 

 ican plant, to which we have given the name of caldasia gemi- 

 niflora, and which is become common in our gardens, (Willd,, 



