THE CINCHONA TRIBE.
985
Cinchona Calisaya sell Regia.—Royal Yellow Bark.
°Ha cordifolia ; Cortex, L. D. —Yellow-Bark : from an unascertained species of Cinchona , E.)
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**,£*'«**— Quinquina Calisaya ou Jaune royal ,Chilia n /. lna » Bergen . China regia; Cortex Chinee r<Goebel -
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Yellow Bark, 1794) says.
. i n ? Y —Dr. Relph ( Inq . into the Med. Effic. of Yellow*hat the e H er Dom a Spanish merchant at Cadiz , dated September 1789, it is observed) r riy e( j , H e l'ow bark had only been lately known there. “ The first parcel whicha 's oiy n Cre ,^ as tried at Madrid, and Was immediately bought by the Kind’s order for•'Uii, e U ij'" In 1790 Murray (App. Med. vi. 178) first saw it at Franckfort on thei^tniiif • afterwards received it under the name of cortex china flavus ; and to pre-;V R e | Jtston he proposed to term it royal yellow bark ( cortex china reyius Jlavns.)^ U| Tay- says it was unknown in England till 1793; but this must be an error; for'"ay if 0 died in 1791, had received it from London . It is not improbable that itv o|.,
"'ay be’ tl! h0 die<1 in 1791, had received it from London . „-..
v °l. Xl v. amarilla {yellow ) cinchona mentioned by Arrot {Phil. Trans. 1737-8,!>• 22(i) ■ °‘ P- ®1—*>) ; by Condamine {Mem. de V Acad. Royale des Scien. 1738,“ ascert * ,ld hy de Jussieu {Hist, de la Soc. de Mid. 1779, p. 252); but this cannotJal, ; s aine d now. The term Calisaya, applied to this bark in Spain and Por-53) tle name of a province producing the bark (Humboldt in Lambert's' Illustr.Bor ^
Y'~The species yielding this bark is at present unascertained.
C ^°aa) t p- a "d Bonpland {PI. ^Equinox, i. 66) ascribe the Quina jaune {yellow cin-■n lnc h° na cordifolia, Mutis. Mr. Lambert {Illustr. p. 4) also states that Quinal.bese ^fj°9°tensium (Bogota yellow cinchona) is produced by C. cordifolia Mutis,
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er s s la*ements, I presume, led Hayne (quoted by Bergen , S. 285), the com-
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•ie / armacopceia Londinensis, 1836, and others, into the error of supposing""'1 th e . u; bark of English commerce is identical with the Quina jaune of HumboldtyfoltQ p‘ na amarilla of Lambert, and that consequently it is the produce of C. cor-, ’tis) “ ut . Bergen (Monog. S. 293) stales that the Quina amarilla {C. cordifolia,/ 8 (th C °! Uaine d in Ruiz’s collection of barks, which he examined, was China flavaVro y) j. e hark known in England as hard Carthagena bark). And Guibourt (Hist, desC ° r dt/ 0 j-‘ observes, that “ many persons have referred the true Calisaya to C.i! l his *i°’ *" consequence of Mutis having given the name of yellow bark to the bark• •nb oil 6 ’ hut l b e authentic specimens of the yellow bark of Mutis, brought byt|,lc ^oi, a >>’ shew that this bark is that known in France by the name of Carthagena
V. C if’ aure nt’s Memoir in Lambert’s Illustr. p. 70) thought it was the bark of^lonrjnl° 5 la ’ an d Dr. Lindley (FI. Med. 417) adopts this notion. But Bergen lady (r< j • 285) says he found in Ruiz’s collection some specimens of Quina naran-f’fruej ‘ lan dfolia, Mutis), of Quina anteada ( C . lanceolata, FI. Peruv.), and of Quinae ‘fteV a (C. nitida, FI. Peruv.), all of which are very different to our yellow%"*XJ royal or Calisaya yellow bark). Guibourt (Hist, des Drog. p. 80) ob-\C, u ®t great differences exist between our yellow cinchona and the orange cinchonaCo^ 8 . Mutis).
1° t'ki il E rce —^ is imported in serons and chests. The whole serons weigh 125i" Ss rs the thirds, 45 to 50 lbs. The chests contain 150 lbs. Iam informed by1 tlc ed , hbs and Sons, Contractors for the Cinchonas , that the Yellow Bark is pro-t*i„ rid„. 1 le Province of La Paz in Bolivia , in a plain bounded east and west by moun-yr>rn ^? es > an d elevated 14 or 15,000 feet above the level of the sea. It is exported8a ' This information agrees with that received by Dr. Wood (United States B Ss a r ^)’ ant ^ with the statements of Delondre (Journ. de Pharm. xxi. 505).
J* r ed o r „- T1al Character. — Coat very thick, brittle; furrows longitudinal; cracks^ er Sfen) atln ^’ lra nsverse ; under surface uneven ; colour deep cinnamon-brown
fiat. SCrip tioji. —In commerce, two varieties are distinguished : the quilled and the
Qdiled yellow bark (cinchona regia tubulata seu convoluta). —The quills vary int'l'n (l, n three to eighteen inches; in diameter, from two lines to one and a half orl' v cv er °. " Ic hes; in thickness, from half to six or seven lines. Very small ” ,half j a, e rare ; those usually met with having a diameter of from one to one and ae lcs i and a thickness of from three to six lines. Sometimes they arc doubly,