[1292] Ledger’s Calisaya is beautifully figured and exactly described in Howard’s Quinology of the East Indian Plantations, parts ii. and iii.
[1293] Figured in Howard’s Nueva Quinologia, art. Chinchona succirubra.
[1294] Howard, l.c. p. 9.
[1295] Phil Trans. xl. for 1737-38. 81.
[1296] Der Gesellsch. naturf. Freunde zu Berlin Magaz. i. (1807) 60.
[1297] Reise in Chile, Peru, etc. ii. (1836) 222.
[1298] Blue Book—East India Chinchona Plant, 1863. 74. 75.
[1299] Travels in Peru and India, 1862. 2.
[1300] Quoted by Weddell in his Hist. des Quinquinas, p. 15, from De Jussieu’s unpublished MS.—The town of Loxa or Loja was founded by the Spaniards in 1546.
[1301] The circumstances are fully narrated by La Condamine (Mém. de l’Acad. royale des Sciences, année 1738). But the cure of the countess was known in Europe much before this, for it is mentioned by Sebastiano Bado in his Anastasis, Corticis Peruviæ, seu Chinæ Chinæ defensio published at Genoa in 1663. When Bado wrote, it was a debated question whether the bark was introduced to Europe by the count of Chinchon or by the Jesuit Fathers.