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worthlessness of the species.* In fact, no good kinds are found 

 in this part of the country, and all the seeds sent home by 

 M. Hasskarl were equally valueless. He collected speci- 

 mens of C. lanceolata of Pavon, at a place called " Escalera 

 do San Eafael," on the road between Uchubamba and 

 Xauxa.^ 



From Xauxa M. Hasskarl went to Cuzco, and thence in 

 September to Sandia in the pro^^nce of Caravaya ; but finding 

 that the seeds of ehiuchona-trees are ripe in August, and that 

 he had arrived too late, he returned to Lima, and finally 

 took up his abode at Ai-equipa until the following year. In 

 Blarch, 1854, he again set out, crossed the Andes to Puno, 

 and, after wandering over part of Bolivia, at length reached 

 the little village of Sina in Caravaya, near the frontier 

 between Peru and Bolivia, in April. He had assumed the 

 feigned name of Jose Carlos Miiller, and had printed it on his 

 cards, one of which he presented to the governor of Sina, 

 Don Juan de la Cruz Gironda, requesting him to procure a 

 supply of chinchona-plants for him. Gironda refused, but 

 introduced the stranger to a Bolivian named Clemente 

 Heniiquez, a clever and intelligent, but dishonest and un- 

 scrupulous man. Henriquez. agi-eed to procure 400 plants 

 of C. Calisaya for a certain sum, part of which was to be 

 paid down, and the remainder on delivery of the plants. M. 

 Hasskarl then went on to the "S'illage of Sandia, where he 

 took up his abode, without entering the chinchona forests, 

 and waited there until the plants should arrive. Meanwhile 

 Henriquez employed an Indian to collect the stipulated 

 number of plants, round a place called Ychu-corpa,® on the 

 frontier of Bolivia ; and when they were brought to him he 

 went to Sandia, delivered them to M. Hasskarl, and received 

 his money. An outcry was afterwai'ds raised against Hen- 



* Howard. ' Howard. 



"^ Ycliu is grass in Quichua, and corpa a lodging. 



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