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Staff-Surgeon THOMAS FOLEY (Irish).—Dead.

STAFF-SURGEON CHARLES MOORE (English).-Present at Junin. Dead. STAFF-SURGEON HUGH BLAIR (Irish).—Dead.

STAFF-SURGEON MICHAEL CRAWLEY (Scotch).-Dead. Sub-prefect of Lampa, under General Santa Cruz, in 1837.

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Drowned at sea off Chiloe, in 1823, while prisoners of war on board a Spanish privateer.-Major Soulange (French); Captain W. Hill (English); Captain Robert Hannah (English); and Lieut. Saint Amarand (French).

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Note.-Admiral George Martin Guise, Captain George O'Brien, Licut. Bayley, and others killed; Admiral Thomas Lord Cochrane, Commodore (now General) Thomas Charles Wright, and others wounded; are not included in the foregoing list, because they belonged to the Patriot Navy.

APPENDIX B.

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BOTANICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE GENUS CHINCHONA, AND OF THE SPECIES OF CHINCHONÆ NOW GROWING INDIA AND CEYLON.

From Weddell, Howard's Pavon, Spruce, and Karsten.

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CHINCHONA.

(From Weddell's Histoire Naturelle des Quinquinas,' p. 17.)

Calyx tubo turbinato, cum ovario connato, pubescente; limbo supero, 5dentato, persistente; dentibus in præfloratione valvatis.

Corolla hypocrateriformis, tubo tereti vel subpentagono, in angulis baseos nonnunquam fisso, intus glabro vel rarissime pilosiusculo; limbo 5-fido: laciniis lanceolatis, intus glabris, margine piloso-barbatis (pilis claviformibus lanatis) extus tuboque pubescentibus, æstivatione valvatis, explicatis patulo-recurvis.

Stamina 5, corollæ laciniis alterna, glabra; filamentis inferno tubo insertis, adnatis; antheris linearibus, inclusis vel apice subexsertis, bilocularibus, introrsis, imo dorso affixis.

Ovarium disco carnoso, pulviniformi, obsolete 5- vel 10-tuberculato

coronatum.

Ovula numerosa, in placentis linearibus dissepimento utrinque aflixis peltata, imbricata, anatropa.

Stylus simplex, glaber, stigma bifidum, in tubo corollino latens vel subexsertum.

Capsula ovata oblonga vel lineari-lanceolata, utrinque sulcata, limbo calycis coronata, lævis vel obscure costata, glabra pubescensve, bilocularis, polysperma, septicide a basi ad apicem dehiscens, valvulis sejunctis, pedicello simul longitrorsum fisso.

Semina plurima in placentis angulato-alatis denique liberis peltatim affixa, sursum imbricata, compressa, nucleo oblongo ala membranacea margine denticulata ex toto ambitu cincto.

Embryo in axi albuminis carnosi rectus; cotyledonibus ovatis integris; radicula tereti, infera.

Arbores vel frutices sempervirentes, vallium Andinarum intertropicalium inter 10° lat. Sept. et 19° lat. Austr. altitudineque 1200-3270 metr. supra Oceani ripas incolæ ; trunco ramisque teretibus; ramulis sæpius subtetragonis, cicatrices foliorum stipularumque delapsorum monstrantibus, harumce vestigiis in ramis adultis etiam conspicuis.

Cortex amarus, Quinina et Chinchonina fœtus. Peridermis varia: modo tenuissima valde adhærens, e solo subere confecta; modo incrassata et stratis squamiformibus, e parenchymate cellulari librove externo constantibus formata, natura frustulatim aliquando secedens, cæterum arte haud ægre solubilis.

Lignum albidum, demum flavescens, e stratis concentricis pro arboris ætate numero variis, radiisque medullaribus secundum caulis longitudinem singulariter protractis constans; cellulæ enim quibus isti conflantur hic horizontaliter extenduntur sicutique in radiis vulgo notis lateriformes seriem plerumque triplicem agunt, illic vero præter normam longitrorsum summopere protractæ seriem simplicem exhibent; quapropter radii in trunco nudato (adempto cortice) inspecti lineas exiles hinc et illinc brevi spatio ellipticeque dilatatas effingunt. Vasa porosa approximata, seriebus continuis simplicibus ordinata.

Medulla ramorum vulgo tetragona.

Folia opposita, integerrima, decrescenti-venosa, petiolata, glabra varie pubescentia vel tomentosa, planiuscula aut margine leviter revoluta; axillis venarum venularumque paginæ inferioris in nonnullis speciebus scrobiculatis; scrobiculis simplicissimis, vacuis aut succum adstringentem sudantibus. Epidermidis cellulæ, paginæ superioris præsertim, ambitu vulgo sinuosæ, in quibusdam speciebus humore translucido tumidæ, particulas foventes innumeras innatantes, oculo armato mirantique motu rapido quasi vitali trepidantes.

Petiolus limbo brevior, semicylindricus, subtus convexus, supra planus vel subcanaliculatus, rarissime in foliis arboris junioris teres.

Stipulæ interpetiolares plerumque liberæ citoque deciduæ vel basi leviter connatæ, intus ad basim glandulis minutis lanceolatis crebre consitæ.

Flores interdum fortuitu 4 vel 6-meri, cymoso-paniculati, albi vel sæpius carnei aut purpurascentes, mire fragrantes; paniculis terminalibus, ramulis pedicellisque basi bracteatis.

CHINCHONA CONDAMINEA.

CHINCHONA CONDAMINEA.

(From Howard's Nueva Quinologia of Pavon,' No. i.)

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CAPSULES AND PARTS OF THE FLOWER OF CHINCHONA CHAHUARGUERA. (Magnified and natural size.)

CHINCHONA CHAHUARGUera.

CHINCHONA CHAHUARGUERA.-Foliis oppositis, petiolatis, lanceolatis, oblongis ovato-lanceolatisque, undulatis, acuminatis acutisque, pedunculis paniculatis.

Arbor 3-4 orgyalis, comâ frondosâ ramosissimâ.

Truncus solitarius, erectus, cortice fusco aspero maculis cinereis indutus, rimis longitudinalibus transversalibusque.

Lignum compactum, durum.

Rami erecti, teretes, cortice extus nigrescente, intus pallido cinnamomeo. Ramuli subteretes, asperi, rimacei, colore ferrugineo-roseo.

Folia opposita, petiolata, lanceolata, oblonga ovato-lanceolataque, acuminata acutaque, utrinque glabra, subtus nervosa, venosa, integerrima, undulata, marginibus revolutis, glandulis subtus concavis rotundis villosis, ad sinus nervorum ortum insertis, supra prominentibus.

Foliola floralia opposita, petiolata, parva, ovata ovaliaque, glabra, marginibus revolutis, nervis centralibus purpureis.

Petioli teretes, purpurei.

Stipulæ duæ oppositæ, supra-axillares, sessiles, ovatæ, integerrimæ, acuminatæ, basi cohærentes, nervo centrali prominente, marginibus revolutis, deciduæ.

Pedunculi communes, terminales, axillaresque, subtetragoni, partiales pubescentes, bracteolis oppositis subulatis ad pedicellorum basim, pedicellis pubescentibus.

Pedicelli bracteolis subulatis, solitariis ad basim.

Calyx rosaceus.

Corolla dilute purpurea, extus pubescens, laciniis reflexis supra villosotomentosis, villis albicantibus.

Anthera fauce parum exsertæ.

Capsula ovalis oblongaque, purpurea (nonnullæ capsulæ ventricosa), bilocularis, bivalvis, valvulis basi dehiscentibus.

Habitat in collibus Santa Rosa nominatis, situ Huancocolla appellata, ditione Vilcobamba, Loxa provinciâ.

Floret Maio, Junio, Julio, et Augusto.

Varietas Prima, Cascarilla amarilla fina del Rey. Varietas Secunda ? Cascarilla colorada fina del Rey. Varietas Tertia? Cascarilla crespilla

negra.

(From Howard's Nueva Quinologia of Pavon,' No. vii.)

CHINCHONA URITUSINGA.

CHINCHONA URITUSINGA.-Foliis oppositis, petiolatis, lanceolatis; pedunculis axillaribus terminalibusque, paniculato-corymbosis, trifidis.

Arbor 20-ulnaris et ultra.

Lignum compactum, luteo colore.

Truncus solitarius, erectus, teres, crassus, fuscus, nonnullis maculis nigris obsitus, coma frondosâ, valde ramosâ.

Cortex scaber, fuscus, maculis nigris fuscis et albicantibus, rimis transversalibus. Color intus luteus, amarissimus, acidulus, non ingratus.

Rami erecto-patentes, teretes; superiores brachiati, complanati, leviter pubescentes, dilute fusci.

Ramuli utrinque sulcati.

Folia opposita, petiolata, lanceolata, integerrima, acuta, supra glaberrima, nervosa, venosa, subtus per nervos et venas villosiuscula; nervis alternis, rarius oppositis; marginibus revolutis; tenerrima subtus hirsuta ; glandulis minimis, rotundatis, subtus concavis, circum villis albicantibus ad nervorum ortum insertis, supra prominentibus.

Petioli teretes, supra canaliculati, glabri, subtus hirsuti, basi incrassati. Stipulæ duæ, opposita, interfoliacea, supra-axillares, ovatæ, acutæ, erectæ, integerrimæ, cauli appressæ, pubescentes, deciduæ.

Pedunculi communes axillares terminalesque, trifidi, obtusi tetragoni, paniculato-subcorymbosi, hirsuti, solitarii, erecti, complanati, foliis breviores; partiales hirsuti, tri-septemflori trifidique; bracteolis duabus, oppositis, minimis, ovatis, acutis, concavis, rubris, ad basim insertis, persistentibus.

Pedicelli teretes, breves, pubescentes; bracteolis solitariis, minimis, ovatis, acutis, persistentibus, ad basim et in medio insertis.

Flores nonnulli sessiles.

Calyx campanulatus, ruber, glaber, in fructu ampliatus, denticulis retroflexis persistens.

Corolla albo-rosacea, extus pubescens. Tubus intus glaber. Limbus

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