Note 419 — I.—PHÆNOGAMOUS OR FLOWERING PLANTS. (continued 3)
Reading edition
Humboldt, Reise in die Aequinoctialgegenden des neuen Continents, iv. (Stuttgart, 1860), 252.—Humboldt and Bonpland in 1804 obtaining, from the Caroni river, flowering branches of the “Cuspa” (l. c. 1. 300) or “Cuspare,” as it is called by the Indians, believed it to constitute a new genus. In 1824 St. Hilaire ascertained it to belong to the genus Galipea.
The tree is figured in Bentley and Trimen, Med. Plants, part 26 (1877).