cinchonas

A collection of cinchonas was in possession of one of the Bolivians, though it represented but

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It will at once strike the reader as desirable that specimens of cinchonas should be cultivated in hothouses under the influence of the electric light, in addition to that of the sun.

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They brought to Marcoy specimens of half a dozen cinchonas, for him to sketch, analyze and decorate with

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A veritable treasure which they had unearthed, worth all the others put together, was a line of those violet cinchonas which the native exporters call _Cascarilla morada_, and the botanists _Cinchona Boliviana_.

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But for two valuable cinchonas possessed by Bolivia, Peru can show twenty, many of them excellent in quality, and awaiting only the enterprise of the government and the natural exhaustion of the forests to the south.

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This repeated proof that the most valuable of all the cinchonas, together with nearly every one of the others, were to be discovered in a small radius along the valley of the Cconi, filled the explorers with triumph, and demonstrated beyond a doubt the sagacity of Don

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One of these specimens was a variety of the _Carua-carua, _ with large leaves heavily veined: the other was an individual resembling those quinquinas which the botanists Ruiz and Pavon have discriminated from the cinchonas, to make a separate family called the _Quinquina cosmibuena.

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The cascarilleros of South America divide the species into a category of colors, according to the tinge of the bark: there are yellow, red, orange, violet, gray and white cinchonas.

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The cinchonas under favorable circumstances become large trees: at present, however, in any of the explored and exploited regions of their growth, the shoots or suckers of the plants are all that remain.

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The success of the bark-hunters in their search for cinchonas had cheered all hearts, and the luxurious supper of dried mutton and chuno arranged for them on their return gave a reminiscence of splendor to the thatched hut on the banks of the stream.

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