Present State of the Genus Cinchona, 43 
into which it has been thrown by, premature attempts at 
generalization. 
Cinchona officinalis, PB. era —Mr. Howard would 
drop the’ barbarous name, chahuarguera, given by Pavon 
to this plant, which is really ne Ouina primitiva, as 
having been traditionally the one which cured the Countess 
of Chinchon. It is, therefore, worthy to bear the name 
condaminea, bestowed upon it, and also on the other forms 
of the plant by Humboldt and Bonpland, in whose “Plantes 
Equinoctiales”” it is well shown in the uwushaded branch, 
which is recognised by De Condolle as a very distinct form 
from the shaded flowering branch produced a different sort 
of bark, to be afterwards described. 
The bark of 8. condaminea is the rusty crown bark of 
Pereira,* and of English commerce. M. Planchon agrees 
with Mr. Howard that the larger portions of the bark 
represent the Quzuquina noueux of Joseph de Jussieu. 
Cinchona officinalis y. bonplandiana-colorata.—This form 
of Loja bark was called, in the time of the Spanish 
dominion, Colorada del Rey.f It is well represented not 
only in the widely-dispersed herbarium of Pavon, but also 
by specimens sent home by Cross, both of a flowering 
branch and of the bark, from the ravines of Cajamuna, 
near Loja, in 1861. The seeds sent home by this collector 
have vegetated well in India, and so successful has been 
the cultivation, that M‘Ivor has already sent home bark fit 
for the English market, according to the estimation of the 
most competent judges. The plant is figufed and described 
in Howard’s “ Illustrations of the Nueva Quinologia” as a 
variety of chahuargucra, which name might very well be 
exchanged for the above. 
y. Bonplandiana-lutea—These two sorts are probably 
merely the acho and hembra varieties (those in which the 
male or female element preponderates in the flower, &c.) 
of the same plant, but the barks produced are markedly 
different, and these differences have remained unchanged 
from Pavon’s day to this. They both deserve well their 
old reputation, and, though scarce, are still found in 
* Confounded by Pereira with the Humatlies mince et rougeitre 
of M. Guibourt, which seems to belong to C. purpurea. 
t “The Spanish creoles still have the custom of giving the 
name veal or del Rey to the best, most beautiful, and most valued 
articles ; thus every pee has its Palma real, Quina del Rey &c.” 
(Karsten). 
