Flora Medica

CINCHONACEJE.LASIONEMA.Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla hypocrateriform, smooth, with aspreading imbricated limb. Stamens very slightly projecting ;filaments bearded in the middle ;anthers roundish. Capsuledehiscing in the middle of the cells, with a complete dissepiment.Seeds narrow, winged.854". L. roseum D. Don in linn, trans, xvii. 142. Cinchonarosea Fl.Peruv. ii. 54. 1. 199. Cascarillo Pardo Ruiz quinol 77.Mountains of Puzuzu and Mufia in low situations Ruiz.Cuchero Poppig.Branches slightly quadrangular, smooth, except when young, atwhich time they are covered with a slight hairiness, especially betweenthe angles. Leaves obovate-lanceolate, acute, not shining; neitherthin nor coriaceous, smooth on both sides except at the axils of theveins on the underside. Panicles naked, terminal, thyrsoid, narrow,with spreading distant rather compressed branches, covered with denseshort spreading hairs. Calyx quite smooth, with a shallow 5-toothedlimb. Corolla pink. It does not appear that the bark of this, which inPeru iscommonly called Asmonich, is now employed in medicine. TheIndians use its beautiful flowers to adorn their temples and the imagesof their saints. Poppig found it about Cuchero where it "occurs notunfrequently ; it is a highly beautiful tree, which in its size and mode oframification may be justly compared with the white Beech of Europe,It is adorned in July with innumerable pale violet flowers, and in itsgrowth, circumference of stem, and hardness of wood, differs greatly fromall the other Cinchonas, the trunk seldom exceeding from 6 to 12 inchesin diameter. The name of Palo de San Juan refers to the floweringseason. Of the bark no use is made, for no one supposes it to belongto the Cinchonas; but there can be little doubt that their peculiarproperties would be found, on examination, to exist in the thin andsmooth bark of its riper branches."COSMIBUENA.Calyx 5-toothed, campanulate, deciduous. Corolla with a longcurved tube, and a 5-lobed limb, which is imbricated in aestivation.Anthers oblong, subsessile, exserted. Stigma bipartite.Capsule oblong, taper, 2-celled, somewhat 4-valved, dehiscingfrom the apex, and dividing the septa. Seeds girded by a laceratedwing. Smooth South American Trees. Leaves ovate,short stalked. Stipules large, oval, obtuse, erect, deciduous.Flowers long, terminal, white.855. C. hexandra Pohl pi. bras. i. 10. t. 8. DC. prodr.iv. 356.Cinchona hexandra Don gen. syst.iii. 4-78. Mountainouswoods of Brazil, in the provinces of Minas Geraes, and RioJaneiro.428