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.

  • Lambert, Aylmer Bourke, 1761-1842.
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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    PREFACE. vii # Genera. Convolvulus 62, Psychotria 54. Solanum 90. Alchemilla 5. Lobelia 30. Verbena 26. Laurus 38. Buddleja 10. i Tournefortia 12. Mimosa 121. Salvia 66. Croton 61. Quer- cus 19. Urtica 29. Ficus 30. Passiflora and Tacsonia 31. Cleome 11. Bignonia 32. Gentiana 20. Asclepias 22. Cy- nanclium 27. Melastoina 41. Myrtus 29. Myristica 6. Euphorbia 22. Theophrasta 5. Barnadesia4. Gnaphalium 19. Aster 54. Eupatorium 79. Senecio 41. Helianthns 30. Ste- via27. Cacalia37. Werneria20. Tagetes 15. Verbesina 25. Bidens 20. Melampodium 12, Culcitium 5. Cecropia 11. Acalypha 24. Clusia21. Aralia et Actinophyllum 15.* This collection also contains numerous specimens, both m bovver and fruit, of all the species of the highly interesting genus Cinchona, collected by the above-mentioned celebrated bota¬ nists and their pupils. He has, besides, received part of a col¬ lection which was taken in a Spanish prize bound from Lima to Cadiz; part of whose cargo was sold in London, among which was a fine collection of Cinchoncc, purchased by Mr. Thompson, of Sloane Square, who had the kindness to give him * The author daily expects from his friend M. Pavon, specimens of the plant called Aracacha, about which so much has been said in our newspapers and periodical works. It is his inten¬ tion to give a description aud figure as soon as they arrive. The letter of M. Pavon relating1 to this plant is as follows:—The Aracacha I conceive to be a species of Daucus ; its root I have frequently eaten, the taste resembles that of parsnip. The plant is cultivated by the Indians, who make much use of it. There exists in Peru a small quadruped which the Indians call Missu, and which is very fond of the root of the Aracacha. They sometimes destroy in one night a whole field that is planted with it. I once possessed one of these animals, which I domesticated from having it young. I decided that it belonged to the genus Mus, and the spe¬ cies called Mus aguti by Linnaeus, and described by M. Valmont de Bomare in his Dictionary of Natural History.” )