488 CHINCHONA PLANTS Chap. XXVIII. 



in the Government gardens at Ootacamund, was sanctioned, 

 which was completed early in December. It is 63 feet long 

 by 21 broad, and will hold about 8000 plants. 



The Dutch Government in Java, at the request of the 

 Government of India, arranged to forward some chinchona- 

 plants of the species cultivated in that island to Calcutta ; 

 and accordingly 100 of C. Calisaya, 300 of C. Paliudiana, 

 and 7 of C. lavcifolia were transmitted. Of these 48 of C. 

 Calisaya, 4 of C. lancifolia, and 250 of C Paliudiana arrived 

 at Ootacamund on the 20th of December, 1861. In exchange 

 for these plants a supply of C. suceiruhrce, and a proportionate 

 number of the other species, will be sent to Java, " not more in 

 return for the valuable accession actually received to om- stock 

 of plants of C. Calisaya, than in acknowledgment of the very 

 courteous and liberal spirit evinced by the Dutch authorities."^ 

 At about the same time Mr. Mclvor also sent 100 plants of 

 C. succiriibra and 50 of each of the " grey-bark " species to 

 Calcutta, with a view to the establishment of a chinchona 

 plantation in the Sikkim or Bhotan hills. 



The plants which arrived from Java were dj-awn and weak, 

 and had evidently been grown without sufficient hght. They 

 were all more or less affected by rot at their roots, and many 

 of the roots were covered with fungi. A few of the plants of 

 C. Calisaya died, but the others recovered under Mr. Mclvor's 

 watchful care. 



A large parcel of seeds of C. Condanrnwa, probably of two 

 varieties (Chahuarguer a and Uritusiyiga), and a smaller packet 

 of seeds of C crispa, were despatched from England in 

 January, and arrived at Ootacamund in March, 1862. By 

 this time Mr. Mclvor had discovered the best method of 

 treatment for chinchona-seeds. He sows in very sandy soil ; 

 and while so much Mater is never given as to make the 

 particles of soil adhere to each other, yet the soil is kept 



* Secretary to the Government of ImJia, to the Serreiury to the Government of 

 Fort St. George, Dec. 9th, 1861. ' 



