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| _CHINCHONA* CULTIVATION IN INDIA. 
| COMMUNICATED BY Clements R. MARKHAM, F.S.A., FRGS, 
[The important and interesting experiment which is now progressing in 
India. under) the. able superintendence of Mr. M‘Ivor, of introducing the cul- 
tiyation of the species of Chinchona plants, the barks of which yield quinine 
and chinchonine, is well worthy the care and expense which has b 
hills, and the earlier stages of their experimental cultivation, have been full 
detailed by Mr. Clements Markham in his Vs recently published by Murray, 
f Travels in Peru and India) We are now in a position to supply an account 
of the subsequent progress of the Glüsidiodl cultivation, from official docu- 
importance of which to India, and, indeed, to the whole civ rilized world, is in- 
.ealeulable.— p.] 
Extracts from the. latest Report. of Mr. M‘Ivor, the Superintendent 
of Chinchona Plantations on the Neilgherry hills :— 
“It is now (July, 1862) a little more than a year since we fairly 
began the cultivation of quinine-yielding Chinehonas on the Neil- 
Berens and although our operations are necessarily in the first stages, 
e information -which has been obtained with reference to the nature 
e requirements of the plants, their propagation and cultivation, and 
the general success which has attended our efforts, will, I trust, render 
this Report not uninteresting. The species introduced into India are, 
mmn Calisaya, C. succirubra, three varieties of C. officinalis, C. nitida, 
C. micrantha, C. Peruviana, C. lancifolia, and a speci. s without name ; 
and the present condition of our experiment holds out great promise 
that the importation into India will be attended with results equal to 
‘those effected by the introduction of sugar-cane into the West aia 
H 1506, of rice into America, and cotton into Egypt. 
“The great losses which have generally been sustained yy placing 
ewy-importd plants at once out in the open air, suggested to us the 
at- 
tenti Mie iie ft that Lanes pa his ps wor Pad pela oa se ke the 
edition of 1767, Cinkona. "Those who have hitherto objected to the correct spelling 
(Chinchona, because the genus aise named after the Count of Chinchon) on the plea 
MA Linnzus wrote Cinchona, will see the impropriety of adhering any louger to that 
With regard to the nomenclature of the species, and its varieties, from the forests 
