quinquina (kinkina)

Same as quinaquina. quinquino (kin'ki-no), n. [S. Amer.] A tree, Myroxylon Pereira, the source of the balsam of Peru. It is found on a strip along the coast of San Salvador called the Balsam Coast. It has a height of 50 feet, branching at 8 or 10 feet from the ground; the leaves are pinnate, 6 or 8 inches long, the flowers numerous in erect racemes, the pods 3 or 4 inches long, narrow at the base, broadening and winged above, containing one seed. The balsam is obtained by the natives from the trunk by a proce of beating and incision. It was first exported by the way of Peru, whence its name. The fruit also yields to cold pre ure a valuable white balsam, and digested in rum furnishes a medicine, balsam i to, but neither of these is an article of commerce. See Myroxylon, and balsam of Peru (under balsam ).