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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    m > I ^ B. Cinclionce corollis glaberrimis. a. staminibus inclusis. I * » 8. C. grandiflora, tubo corollce iongissimo, fol. lanceolato- oblongis ntrinque glabris. I have retained the former name of the Flor. Per. M. Kuiz calls this species at present Cosmibuena obtusifolia. (Flor. Per• vol. iii.) It is identical with C. longijlova Mut., a name which would cause confusion, since Lambert enumerates as C. longi- flora the Island-Cinchona staminibus longe exsertis, described as C. Caribcea in Journ. de Phys. Oct. 1790. It is fond of warm regions, and descends from the mountains in heights from two and three hundred toises. It grows in re¬ gions whose mean temperature is from 18 to 19 degrees. 9. C. parvijlora foliis ovatis glabris, filamentis basi dilatatis el pabescentibus. Mut. Mss. It has the smallest fruit of all Cinchonae. b. staminibus exsertis. 10. C. dissimilijiora foliis cordato-obIongis glaberrimis, limbo corollce tubo longiori, capsulis siiblinearibus angustissimis. Mut. Mss. Next to C. longifiora Lamb, the only species of the con¬ tinent which has stamina exserta. Grows in heights betwixt 200 and 700 toises in warm regions. 11. C. Caribcea Swartz. 12. C. longiflora Lamb, 13. C. Uneat a Vahl. 14. C. Jloribunda Swartz. /