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 surface smooth; the epidermis fine, whitish, on account of the lichens which cover it; the other parts of the bark of a dark red, and deeper than that of the Cinnamon of Manilla; about a line in thickness; the size from a goosey-quill to an inch in circumference or rather more. This bark is well rolled, spongy, easy to break, and presents long fibres on the two separated edges > its bitterness is slight but agreeable ; it is also sufficiently styp¬ tic ; it exhales an odour on decoction. < •’ * i - ' * , * r i * ’ V. Cascarillq hobo de Hojas Moradds (Mulberry-leaved). (C. purpurea, Flor. Per.J* This species grows in the mountains of the Panatahuas and of Huanuco: its bark is not received singly in commerce. It has been found mingled with those of the three species denominated nitida, hirsuta, and lanceolata, frequently also with the Hua- nuco of commerce. Some practitioners place it among the most efficacious barks ; but M. Ruiz considers this decision too hasty, and not yet confirmed by experience. The following are its di¬ stinguishing characters: Surface smooth, in some cases rather rough, covered with little lichens ; the uncovered parts of a tawny colour more or less clear ; the internal surface yellow inclining more or less to red ; rarely a line in thickness, and commonly less than an inch in circumference ; easily broken, but not very spongy; fracture ra¬ ther clean, only a few small fibres in its internal part; commonly well rolled, considerably bitter, aromatic, and strongly styptic; it exhales a strong odour on mastication and in decoction. * Foliis oblongo-ovalibus ovatisque purpurasceittilus,paniculd bradiiatd magna, ftoribus # ib-corymbosis, corollis albo-purpureis: limbo hirsute. Its bark is much sought in commerce, -and is in considerable repute among: practitioners. V