266 THE CALISAYA MORADA. Chap. XV. 



young man, a nephew of Gironda's, had planted a C. Calisaya 

 in a small clearing a few leagues up the ravine, I went to 

 examine it. The clearing was on a steep declivity sloping 

 down to the river, and had been partly planted with coffee 

 and coca by its solitary occupant. The tree was a Calisaya 

 morada, having been a root-shoot twelve inches high when it 

 was planted in January, 1859. It is now seven feet high, six 

 inches and four-tenths in circumference round the ti'unk, and 

 three feet three inches across the longest branches from one 

 side of the stem to the other. It was growing on the side of 

 a steep hill, quite open to the south, east, and south-east, at 

 the edge of a clearing, vrhile mountains covered with forest 

 rise up close behind it, on the north and west, to a great 

 height. It is planted in a soil consisting of stiff yellowish 

 loam, composed of vegetable matter, mixed with the disin- 

 tegration of the soft clay slate. This is probably the only 

 cultivated chinchona-tree in Peru. In returning to Lenco- 

 huayccu I saw a flock of Alectors, large birds analogous to 

 turkeys, and many parrots ; and on my arrival I found that 

 Mr. Weir had already made up the chinchona-plants, in 

 four Kussia-matting bundles, ready to start for Sandia on 

 the following morning. 



