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the Andes, betwixt the village of this mame and the sie de 
fos Corrales. 
Such was the state of the discovery of Cinchona north of the 
equator until the year 1772. All the Cinchona bark of com- 
merce was from Loxa, Gauancabamba, and Jaen, perhaps even 
from Riobamba and Cuenza. The whole was shipped at the 
ports of the Pacific. No advantage was derived from the im- 
portant discovery in the provinces of Pasto and Popayan. In 
the year 1772 Don Jose Celestino Mutis discovered the Cinchona 
about Santa Fe, and since this epoch Europe received Cinchona 
bark which did not double Cape Horn, and which came by way 
of Carthagena de Indias to Cadiz. 
M. Mutis had resided already twelve years in the kingdom of 
New Granada. He had ‘travelled twice through the forests be- 
tween Guaduas and Santa Fe, where the Cinchona tree is surround- 
ed by the beautiful Granada oaks. - If we consider the diversity of 
plants which engage the attention of the botanist in these coun- 
tries; if we reflect that in the tropics the height of the trunks 
withdraws from our eyes both leaves and blossoms; we shall be 
the less surprised that M. Mutis discovered the Cinchona only in 
1772, when he found it in blossom. This excellent explorer of 
nature, who is a native of Cadiz, studied three years in Madrid, 
and was induced by a love of botany to accompany the vice- 
roy Don Pedro Misia de la Cerda, as his physician, to Santa 
Ve. He lived along time in the districts of Pampelona and 
de la Montuosa, a name which, to the greatest dissatisfaction 
of M. Mutis, Linneus has construed into Mexico; so that 
this Swedish botanist has quoted all the New Granada spe- 
cimens which he received from la Montuosa, as Mexican ones.* 
This error is the more singular, since Linnzus, who correspond- 
ed with Mutis always by way of Carthagena de Indias, must have 
* For instanee, Mannettia reclinate, 
