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# is very abundant, and grews spontaneously in the pro- 
vinces of arma, Xauxa, Hudnuco, Hnuamalies, and in that of 
the Panatahuas, I have never heard that the natives collect 
its roots for trade er other purposes, nor indeed those of an- 
ether species of the same genus, which grows abundantly 
among the ‘Huaesaro ; and collacted in. sivther parts, end mised 
with it. Bt 
In the Pi ai of ii I te seen shine of aa. roots 
a Huacsaro, and of the other species which are brought by 
way of Payta and Huayaquil, as well as the capital of Peru, and 
shipped at Callao for Cadiz; whence it follows that these roots 
are collected in the provinces of Caxamarca, nacho 
tas, and Chachapoyas, belonging to the Behopric of Truxillo, 
and in other places bordering on Huayaquil. | 
- The common method of collecting the roots of th > Calagu: 
is to dig up the plants with a spade, and strip ‘them of the 
leaves, stalks, shoots, and fibrous parts, leaving only the trunk 
of the root, which is exposed to the sun, that it may be dried 
and cleared of the adherent earth: many persons, however, 
wash the roots before they strip the shoots and fibres; a readier 
and safer operation for wholly clearing them from the soil, and 
enabling them to dry sooner, as the fibres are more easily remo- 
ved when the roots have been washed and half dry, than when 
they are green and covered with soil. % , 
The drying of all the Calagualas ‘is_ ) posing 
them to the sun. immediately. after dhe: have a glled. up 
and washed; for, on being left some days in the shade, they 
grow mouldy and. Tose their due colour and consistency, which 
they retain when quickly dried in the sun, or, in case of neces- 
sity, in stoves,or heated ovens, care being taken to turn and move 
: them occasionally, that the moisture exhaling from them. may 
