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

[56] The pupil and fellow-workman of Mutis, from whose notes he wrote.

[57] Anales de la Historia Natural de Madrid, 1800.

[58] Floræ Columbiæ specimina selecta, i. p. 21: Berlin, 1858. A superbly illustrated work by Dr. Karsten.

[59] Die medicinischen Chinarinden Neu-Granadas, von H. Karsten: Berlin, 1858. I have had this pamphlet translated for the use of those intrusted with, or interested in, the chinchona cultivation in India and Ceylon. It contains a great deal of valuable information respecting the most favourable situations for the production of alkaloids in chinchona barks, and other particulars respecting the growth of the bark, and the methods of collecting it. Dr. Karsten is a careful observer and a scientific botanist and chemist, and his observations form a very important addition to our knowledge of this subject.

[60] Report of the Administrador Don Ignacio Cavero, Semanario, p. 183.

[61] 300 dried specimens, and 242 coloured drawings, sent in the ship 'Buen Consejo.'

[62] Namely:—

[63] I have examined Pavon's dried specimens from Huanuco, now in the botanical gardens at Madrid.

There are leaves of C. lanceolata, from the forests of Muña; leaves and capsules of C. ovata, some of the former very slightly cordate, from Panao and Pillao; leaves, flowers, and capsules of C. purpurea; and leaves and capsules of C. nitida, from Cuchero.