Flora Medica

COSMIBUENA.A tree. Leaves oval, obtuse, covered on the under side, as are alsothe flowers, with yellowish hairs. Corolla 5-6-cleft, purple. Stamens5-6. An indifferent sort of fever bark is produced by this plant ;M. Guibourt thinks itmay be what has been known in commerce asQuinquina colorada. He received the latter under the name of BrazilianQuinquina. It contains a very little cinchonine, is thin, blood-colouredwithin, very bitter.REMIJA.Tube of calyx obovate, with a 5-cleft permanent limb. Tubeof corolla slender ;limb 5-parted, with linear segments. Filamentsunequal, inserted into the tube of the corolla ; antherslinear, enclosed. A fleshy, elevated, truncated disk, distinctfrom the style. Stigmas 2, linear, enclosed. Capsule openingfrom the apex to the base, with a loculicidal dehiscence. Seedsnumerous, peltate, winged. Slender Brazilian bushes. Leavesoblong, or ovate, coriaceous, deeply furrowed above, opposite orternate, revolute at the edges, covered with ferruginous hairs underneath.Stipules lanceolate connate at the base, deciduous.Racemes long, axillary, interrupted; flowers in opposite fascicles.Corollas downy externally.854. R. ferruginea DC. prodr. iv. 357. Cinchona ferrugineaAug. de St. Hil. pi. us. t. 2. Dry mountains in the provinceof Mines in Brazil.Leaves oblong-lanceolate, rather narrow. Racemes interrupted,scarcely branched. This and the following are substituted in Brazilfor Cinchona bark, under the names of Quina da Serra or Quina deRemijo, but they are said to be of inferior quality.855. R. Vellozii DC. prodr. iv. 357. Cinchona Vellozii Aug.de St. Hil.pl. us. bras. p. 3. With the last.Leaves ovate, tapering to each end. Racemes interrupted, scarcelybranched. Differs from the last in the flower stalks being shorter, thebractes less linear, and the flowers longer and more numerous.HYMENODICTYON.Tube of calyx ovate, limb 5-toothed. Corolla funnel-shaped,5-lobed. Stamens very short ;filaments smooth, inserted lowerthan the throat ; anthers protruding. Style long, prominent ;stigma clavate, capitate, somewhat lobed. Capsule naked,2-celled, 2-valved, with a loculicidal dehiscence. Seeds surroundedby a reticulated wing, bifid at the base. Large Indiantrees. Branches compressed. Stipules deciduous, with glandularfringes. Flowers small, inconspicuous, green, downy.856. H. excelsum Wall, in Roxb. fl.ind. ii. 148. tent.fi. nep.i. 31. DC. prodr. iv. 358. Cinchona excelsa Roxb. fl. ind.i. 529. corom. ii. 1. 106. Mountainous parts of the Circars ofIndia.429