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

[36] Aspects, ii. p. 267.

[37] Semanario de la Nueva Granada.

[38] From Martius: a note in No. 1 of Howard's Nueva Quinologia de Pavon.

[39] Some of these MSS. are, I believe, in possession of Don Pedro Carbo, of Guayaquil.

[40] Spanish edition of General Miller's Memoirs, i. p. 42.

[41] It is the form of C. Condaminea, represented in the unshaded branch with capsules, Plate x. of the Plantes Equinoctiales.

[42] It comes in very small quills, as if taken from a mere shrub.

[43] Besides quinine several other febrifugal alkaloids are found in the chinchona barks, one of the most important of which is chinchonidine, discovered by Pasteur in 1852.

[44] I found some very beautiful dried specimens of this species in the botanical gardens at Madrid last year. The lanceolate leaves and panicles of flowers still retained their colour. They were marked "Cascarilla fina de Uritusinga de Loxa, Quin. de Pavon."

[45] Howard's Nueva Quinologia de Pavon.