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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    MEMOIR ON THE DIFFERENT SPECIES OF QUINQUINA. BY M. LAUBERT, CHIEF PHYSICIAN TO THE SPANISH ARMY. Botanists recognise about twenty Barks of the genus Cin¬ chona, but the number of those which are current in commerce is much more considerable. They are vended singly, or mixed with each other, under the names of Cascarilla de Loxa* Calisaya, Red Case aril la, and Huannco. CASCARILLA DE LOXA. Under this name are included all the most esteemed and se¬ lect Quinquinas of the province of Loxa. Five species of it * The word Quinquina is not used in Peru, and is rarely employed in Spain amon? traders ; they adopt the term Cascarilla, and those who gather the barks are called Cascarilleras. The Croton chacarilla of Linnaeus is known in Peru by the name of Chacarilla. It appears that the term Quinquina, as M. de Condamine has observed, has been taken from the febrifuge employed before the discovery of this bark, particularly by the Jesuits; it was the Myroxy¬ lon peruiferum, called in Peru Quinoquinos and Quinoquina. This conjecture is the more pro¬ bable, because the Quinquina at first was known also by the name of Jesuit’s Powder, and the genus Myroxylon peruife rum has not been well determined and described until the pre¬ sent day. We may just observe that M. Ruiz thinks the Myrospermum and the Toluifcra ought to be comprehended under the generic term Myroxylon.