Flora Medica

entire, silvery and scaly on the under side, bright green and smooth onthe upper, except a few scattered minute scurfs ; about twice as longas their scurfy silvery taper petioles. Racemes axillary, quite simple,covered with ferruginous scurf, monoecious. Flowers all 5-sepalous and5-petalous; males with 10-15 stamens. A very distinct species fromC. Eleuteria, and according to Deppe beyond all doubt the true Quinablanca or Copalchi of the druggists of Xalapa, and in his opinion probablythe plant yielding the Cascarilla of Europe. Another bark isalso called Copalchi in Mexico, which according to Virey and Guibourtis furnished by Strychnos Pseudo Quina. Professor Don considers itquite certain that this C. Pseudo-China is what furnishes the Cascarillafor Apothecaries' Hall ;and he proposes to shift the name of C. Cascarillato it ;a proposition which is inadmissible : firstly, because there isno end to such changes, and secondly because Mr. Pereira has satisfactorilyshown that Professor Don is wrong in his statement. Ihowever regard the admitted fact of the bark of this species beingextremely like true Cascarilla as an additional reason for referring thatbark to C. Eleuteria, because the two species are very similar, and fornot referring it to C. Cascarilla, which is a totally different species.Mr. Pereira has traced the importation of this bark and shown that itresembles Ash Cinchona bark in appearance, and very different in manyrespects from the officinal Cascarilla of this country. Med. Gaz. xx. 850.363. C. Tiglium Lam. encycl. ii. 208. Roxb.fi. ind. iii. 682.S. and C. i. t. 4. C. Jamalgota Hamilt. in Linn, trans.xiv. 258 Continent of India, Ceylon.A middle-sized tree. Young branches terete, smooth, shining, alittle furrowed towards the ends. Leaves oval-oblong, acute and 3-5-nerved at the base, acuminate at the point, with shallow glandular serratures; thin, membranous, with 2 glands at their base, covered whenyoung with extremely minute stellate scattered hairs ; petioles channelled,about i the length of the leaf, when quite young furnished withstellate hairs, but soon losing them. Racemes terminal, erect, male atapex, female below. Flowers downy ;