An illustration of the genus Cinchona; comprising descriptions of all the officinal Peruvian barks, including several new species. Baron de Humboldt's account of the cinchona forests of South America; and Laubert's memoir on the different species of quinquina. To which are added several dissertations of Don Hippolito Ruiz on various medicinal plants of South America ... And a short account of the spikenard of the ancients / By Aylmer Bourke Lambert.

  • Aylmer Bourke Lambert
Date:
1821
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Credit: An illustration of the genus Cinchona; comprising descriptions of all the officinal Peruvian barks, including several new species. Baron de Humboldt's account of the cinchona forests of South America; and Laubert's memoir on the different species of quinquina. To which are added several dissertations of Don Hippolito Ruiz on various medicinal plants of South America ... And a short account of the spikenard of the ancients / By Aylmer Bourke Lambert. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    received from the celebrated author of the Flora Peruviana et Chilensis, Don Jose Pavon. The celebrated Mutis has, and I think too with great propriety, considered his C. lancifolia the Quina Naranganda, or Quinquina Orange of Santa Fe, as iden¬ tical with the quina fina de Uritucinga, or Humb. and Bon- pland’s C. Condaminea. No description is given of the C. lancifolia of Mutis in the Nova Genera et Species Plan- tarum of Humb. Bonpl. and Kuntli, and it is probable that they were made acquainted with it only from the drawings of Mutis. The short specific character given in the above work does not distinguish it in the least from their Condaminea. 2. C. cordifolia, foliis subrotundo-ovatis acutis basi cordatis attenuatisve subtus ramulisque pilosiusculis supra denudatis t nitidis, panicula brachiata diffusa pubescente, dentibus caly- einis late-rotundatis mucronulatis, stigmate bilobo, capsulis oblongo-ovatis cylindricis ecostatis. C. cordifolia JWut. Mss. Humb. in .Magazin, fye. p. 117. Pohde Monog. ]>. 58. Humb. JBonpl. et Kunth. Nova Gen. et Spec. Plant. 3. p. 401 (exclus. Synonymis omnibus FI. Pe¬ ruviana*, nee non Linn. Syst. Nat. Vahl et Lambert.) C. sp. nova vulgo palo blanc Pavon Mss. Quina amarilla Pogo- tensium. Habitat nemora montosa Loxse in Begno Quitensi Peruvia- norum (Pavon) in Regno Novo-granatensi, ubi legit Mutis. Genitalia inclusa, filamenta plana dilatata antheris linearibus dupol breviora ; stigmatis lobis oblongo-ovatis obtusis. This species is totally different from the Cinchona purpurea, hirsuta, and ovata (pnbcscens Vahl) of Flora Peruviana, which Humboldt and Bonpl and in their before-mentioned work have given as synonyms of Mutisms plant. The specimens I possess of it have been examined and named by M. Bonpland while