300  Botanical  Source  of  Ouprea  Bark        { """"jine'iss"''"- 
Kemijia  Hilairii,  D.  C.  (Prod.,  iv,  p.  357). — Syn.  Cinchona  Remijiana, 
St.  Hil.,  PI.  us.  Bras.:  Cinchona  Velozii  and  Cinchona  ferruginea, 
D.  C. ;  Pemijia  Velozii  and  Remijia  ferruginea,  St.  Hil.,  I.  c; 
Macrocn em um,  Vel  1 . 
This  species  grows  in  dry  and  barren  places  on  the  mountains  of  the 
province  of  Minas. 
R.  paniculata,  D.  C. 
A  little  known  plant;  a  native  of  Brazil. 
R.  Cujabensis,  Wedd.  (Hist.  Nat.  des  Quinq.),  93  adn. — Syn.  Laden- 
bergia  Cujabensis,  Klotsch  in  Hayn.  Arzneigewachse,  xiv. 
This  species  inhabits  forests  in  the  neighborhood  of  Bahia,  in 
Brazil. 
R.  Bergeniana,  Wedd.,  I.e. — Syn.  Cinchona  Bergeniana,  Mart,  in  Linn. 
vi ;  Litt.  Ber.,  67 ;  Ladenbergia  Bergeniana,  Klotsch,  I.e. 
A  species  indigenous  in  Brazil. 
R.  hrmula,  Wedd.,  I.e.;  Ladenbergia  firmula,  Klotsch,  I.e. 
A  native  of  the  banks  of  the  Rio  Negro,  in  Brazil. 
R.  macrocnemia,  Wedd. — Syn.  Cinchona  macrocnemia,  Mart.  Walp. 
Repert.,  ii,  p.  507  ;  Ladenbergia  macrocnemia,  Klotsch,  I.e. 
This  species  grows  on  the  banks  of  the  Amazon,  in  Brazil. 
R.  densiflora,  Benth.  and  Hook.,  Lond.  Journ.  Bot.,  iii,  p.  215. 
A  notive  of  English  Guiana. 
R.  hispida,  sp.  n.  in  Herb.  Spruce,  No.  3248. 
Grows  near  Esmeralda,  on  the  Orinoco  river. 
R.  tenuiflora,  Benth.,  I.e. 
A  species  which  is  found  between  Barra  and  Barcelos,  on  the  Rio 
Negro  in  Northern  Brazil. 
R.  Purdieana,  Wedd.,  in  Ann.  Sc.  Nat.  (3  ser.),  xv.,  p.  272. 
This  species,  which  is  one  of  those  yielding  the  cuprea  cinchona  bark 
grows  in  the  forests  of  both  banks  of  the  lower  Magdalena,  in  Colum- 
bia, in  the  provinces  of  Antioquia  and  Santander. 
R.  pedunculata,  Triana,  Nouv.  Etudes. — Syn.  Cinchona  pedunculata, 
Karst.,  Specim.  Select.,  i,  53,  t.  26. 
This  species,  which  also  furnishes  the  cuprea  cinchona  of  commerce, 
grows  between  200  and  1,000  meters  above  the  level  of  the  sea,  on  the 
eastern  slopes  of  the  eastern  Cordillera,  on  several  affluents  of  the 
Orinoco  and  Amazon  rivers,  such  as  the  Rio  Meso,  Rio  Negro,  Gua- 
viare,  Papamene,  Zarapote,  etc. — Phar.  Jour,  and  Trans. ,  April  22, 
1882. 
