Travels in Peru and India / While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India.

by Sir Clements R. Markham

[7] Mr. Spruce's Report, p. 25.

[8] The first Marquis of Astorga married Leonora, daughter of Don Fadrique Henriquez, Admiral of Spain, and sister of the Queen of Aragon, who was mother of King Ferdinand the Catholic: so that Ana was sixth cousin to her contemporary King Philip IV

[9] Nobiliario genealogico de los Titulos de España, por Alonzo Lopez de Haro, Madrid, 1626.

[10] Alcedo.

[11] Creacion y Privilegios de los Titulos de Castilla, por Don José Berni. The Counts of Chinchon were hereditary Alcaides of the Alcazar of Segovia. In 1623 the Count of Chinchon here received Charles I. of England, and gave him a supper of "certaine trouts of extraordinary greatnesse." In 1764 the then Count of Chinchon ceded the Alcazar to the crown.

[12] A large supply of seeds of this kind has been sent to India and Ceylon.

[13] Howard's Nueva Quinologia de Pavon, No. 1.

[14] Sebastian Badus asserts that bark was brought to Alcala de Henares as early as 1632.—Humboldt's Aspects, ii. p. 268.

[15] I translated and edited Acuña's Voyage for the Hakluyt Society in 1859.

[16] Disertacion por Dr. Don Hipolito Unanue.