Cosmibuena
(from Cosimi Buena, a Spanish physician, who wrote a Natural History of Peru). ORD. Rubiaceoe. A small genus of handsome stove plants, allied to Bouvardia, Cinchona, Luculia, &c. Calyx tube oblong or turbinate; limb tubular or bell-shaped, five to six-toothed; corolla salver-shaped, or funnel-shaped, with an elongated tube, and a five to six-lobed spreading limb. They are of easy culture in a compost of loam, leaf mould, and sand. Propagated by seeds; or by cuttings of ripe wood, placed in sand, under a hand glass, in bottom heat.
C. obtusifolia latifolia (broad obtuse-leaved).* fl. white, very fragrant, disposed in terminal cymes; peduncles stout, 1/2in. to 3/4in. long; tube 3in. long, somewhat dilated for 1/2in. at the throat. l. opposite, petioled, 3in. to 6in. long, elliptic or rarely more or less ovate or obovate. h. 20ft. Columbia, 1876. SYN. Cascarilla grandifolia. (B. M. 6239.)