Coutarea
(the native name in Guiana). ORD. Rubiaceoe. A small genus of stove evergreen trees, from tropical America. Some of the species are believed to furnish the Cinchona bark of French Guiana. They are of easy culture in a compost of loam, sand, and peat. Cuttings will root readily in the same kind of soil, under a hand glass, in heat.
C. speciosa (showy).* fl., corolla purple, large, broad, funnel-shaped; peduncles trifid, three-flowered. l. ovate, acuminated, on very short petioles, glabrous; stipules broad, short, acute. h. 25ft. Guiana, 1803.