[322] Poeppig calculates the yield of Huanuco at 500,000 lbs.
[323] Poeppig, Reise, ii. p. 252; also Van Tschudi, p. 455.
[324] In Caravaya the llipta is made into a pointed lump, and kept in a horn, or sometimes in a silver receptacle, in the chuspa. With it there is also a pointed instrument, with which the llipta is scratched, and the powder is applied to the pellet of coca-leaves. In some provinces they keep a small calabash full of lime in their chuspas, called iscupurus.
[325] Bonplandia, viii. p. 355-78.
[326] The information in this chapter is derived from personal observation; from the essay on coca by Dr. Don Hipolito Unanue, in Nos. 3 to 8 of the Museo Erudito; and from the works treating of coca, by Van Tschudi, Travels in Peru, p. 455; Dr. Poeppig, Reise in Peru, ii. p. 248; Dr. Weddell, Voyage dans le Nord de Bolivie, p. 516; the Bonplandia; and a memorandum by Dr. Booth, of La Paz. These are the best authorities on the subject.
[327] Dr. Weddell, the discoverer of this species, had never seen it in flower. I brought home leaves, flowers, and fruit of the C. Caravayensis, which are now in the herbarium at Kew.
[328] An Umbellifer. The roots taste something like a parsnip, and there are four kinds—white, yellow, brown, and reddish.
[329] Lenco appears to mean "sticky mud," and huayccu is a ravine, in Quichua.
[330] Com. Real. i. lib. viii. cap. 15.
[331] Lib. iv. cap. 29.