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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    ON THE CINCHONA FORESTS OF SOUTH AMERICA. BY A. YON HUMBOLDT. SECTION II. The genus Cinchona belongs to those tribes of plants, whose species have been considerably multiplied of late. Linnoeus knew but two of them, viz. C. officinalis and C. Caribcea. Vahl,* in his treatise on Cinchona Bark, enumerates nine; Lambert,-]* in his English Monograph, eleven; Persoon, in his little Enchiridium Botanicum,% one-amLtwenty species. If we yet add to these, two Cosmibuence of the Flora Peruviana, belonging formerly to the genus Cinchona, the Cinchona excelsa of Roxburgh, found in the East Indies, my C. Condaminea,Y avas- sour’s C. spinosa, and Willdenow’s yet undescribed small-leaved C. brasiliensis, for which we are indebted to Count Hoffinann- segg in the expedition instituted by him for objects of natural history, then the number of species of Cinchona appears to have increased to twenty-seven. The authors of the Flora Peruviana alone have entertained the notion of describing thirteen new spe¬ cies, while M. Mutis has reduced all the Cinchonce, examined by him in South America, to seven only. Even Professor Zea, in * Skrivter of Naturhistorie Selskabet, B. i. H. i. p. 16. f Description of the genus Cinchona, 1707. J Synopsis Plantarum, P. i. p. 196.