38 CHINCHONA CULTIVATION IN INDIA. 
desirableness of placing our plants, in the first instance, under the pro-- 
tection of glass. This gave us the power of rapidly increasing the 
plants, while it offered the great advantage of enabling us to note with 
much accuracy the various conditions affecting their health and growth; 
and this was rendered of more importance as the information we origi- 
nally possessed, with reference to the cultivation of these plants, was so 
vague and ambiguous, and in many cases, indeed, so conflicting, con- 
tradictory, and absurd, that it rendered the attainment of early prac- 
tical knowledge of great value; while we based our theory of cultiva- 
tion upon the observations of Mr. Markham, and the other agents em- 
ployed in introducing the plants into India. 
** As early as 17th August, 1860, orders were received to select and 
prepare sites for the cultivation of the plants. But at that time we 
felt our information inadequate to enable us to perform this very im- 
portant task with the degree of certainty required, and it was suggested 
that, prior to their final adoption, they should be examined and approved 
by Mr. Markham. That gentleman visited India towards the -— o 
of Toxa, Mr. Markham has sent ont the following Memorandum to India; and the 
n suggested has been adopted in the following p es of C 
J . ritusing 
2, Chahuarguera ; 3, crispa. Dr. Hooker, in a recent Feier of the c Botaticil 
Magazine,’ has na amed "s species C. officinalis, reverting to to the i epi name given 
y Linnæus (see p. 9 of * Travels in Peru and India’), Dr. Hooker says :—' When 
once the E of hus is departed from ii _ perfectly good cause, the Me is 
— The genus was 
pon the one plant called Ywinanias by or "Con ee to which fme gave 
the s specific name of C. officinalis. This hors which appears to us in every way un 
objectionable, Ae m was s adopt ted by Vahl and Lambert, vanas ck, 
i 
Hooker :—1 vitusin ng spt discov 
Ia n puni ei it should therefore bear his Si var. - DREAM. 2. That 
to bear the 
Chinchona has already been called efter Humboldt, and it is the refore sed 
call this variety Bonplandia. 3. The variety crispa by Tafalla requires (i: aeration: 
ves nae m en —— C. officinalis: 1, var. Condaminea ; 2, var. Bonplandianas 
