Semina plura, oblonga, compressa, marginata.

Empalement. Cup one-leafed, above, bell-shaped, five-toothed, and remaining.

Blossom one petal, funnel-shaped, and five-parted.

Chives. Threads 5, small: tips oblong, within the mouth of the blossom.

Pointal. Seed-bud nearly round, beneath. Shaft the length of the corolla. Summit thickish, oblong, and simple.

Seed-vessel. Capsule oblong, in two parts, crowned by the cup, the two parts cleaving together; the inner parts gaping, with equal dissepiment.

Seeds many, oblong, compressed, and emarginated.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Cinchona foliis alternatis, ovatis, acuminatis, integerrimis, glabris, venosis: inter folia stipula parva, cauli adpressa: floribus axillaribus, simplicibus, albicantibus, glabris, odoratissimis. Rami alternati, oppositi.

Habitat in Caribæis: succedaneum cortici Peruviano.