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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    the duplicates. He has been enabled by these means to ascer¬ tain satisfactorily all those figured in the Flora Peruviana, be¬ sides several new species; and in many instances, also, to clear up the many doubts and errors, which have long pervaded this valuable but intricate genus of plants. He has divided the whole into five sections, and given to each of the species spe¬ cific differential characters. The author has, in several cases, been obliged unwillingly to differ from the opinion of his friend the Baron de Humboldt, regarding the species figured in the Flora Peruviana ; but the accidental advantage of his being in possession of the specimens from which these figures were taken, and of having others named by M. Bonpland himself, will, he hopes, justify him in doing so. He intends hereafter to give figures of all the species here described. It was a very fortunate circumstance for him, that the celebrated Don Francisco Antonio Zea, whose authority is of such weight in this genus, was re¬ siding very lately for a considerable time in this country; and to whom he had shown all his specimens, and who agrees with him in most of the statements he has given. At the end of the specific descriptions, is added a list of the different kinds of Peruvian barks with their names, fine samples of which, amount¬ ing to forty-four sorts, he received from his much valued friend Don Jose Pavon. The interesting pamphlet of Don Ilippolito Ruiz, on the Myroxylon Peruiferum, he has here for the first time presented in the English language, and has added to it a plate, taken from very fine specimens, received from his often mentioned friend Pavon. It may here be interesting for botanists to learn, that the plates are finished of the fourth and fifth unpublished volumes of the