ON THE CASCARILLAS OF 
Atben acutis vel I acuminatis sub- 
rofun 
o 
the genus are so imperfectly described, 
that we pianot ee refer it to 
ny. We possess the same, or a closely 
allied akong pe Trinidad. It is 
common about Tucuman; where, with 
oper specion, it is called Barba ps 
gsi. Ls ) M. urticefolia (Hook. et Arn.); 
ens piloso-hispida, foliis ovatis acu- 
"en incisi-serratis nervis subtus his- 
Flowers large, ed. Pappus e 
M.? Peale (Hook. et Arn.) ; 
scandens, glaberrima, foliis. Bos mede 
rimis, paniculis laxis terminalibus, pappo 
e pilis clavatis serrulatis, —St. Catharine, 
S. Brazil, Tweedie 
SuB-TRIB. IV.—TussiLAGINEX. Less. 
953. (1.) Adenocaulon Chilense. Poep. 
— Less. in Linnea, v. 6. p. 107.—Shady 
woods in the Andes, province of Valdi- 
via. Bridges (n. 573). 
ON THE CASCARILLAS OF CU- 
CHERO AND HUANUCO. 
mirai from Dr. Poe 
Per 
g’s “ Reise in Chili, 
und auf t} 
dem pedian, 
NEXT in order and importance to the 
. Coca,! the Fever Bark (Cascarilla) claims 
& place, as being the cause of the coloni- 
gation of Chinchao’s and Cuchero's wild 
and forest-covered mountains. The intro- 
the high price that the bark fetched at 
Loxa, no one, for years, thought of pursu- 
= Bee similar profitable trade in the well- 
> | ginal proprietors, who were active Spani- 
! See p. 161 of this Journal. 
CUCHERO AND HUANUCO. 
ards from the old country, became so 
wealthy, that they found numerous imi- 
tators, who not being possessed of land, 
were obliged to make distant excursions, 
partly in the wild woods on the other side 
the river, within reach of the independent 
Indian people, and partly in the humid and 
hot forests of the Lower Missions (at Chi- 
coplayo and Pampa hermosa) where they 
found an inferior but more easily attainable 
kind of bark. These poor and unprinci- 
pled speculators, less interested in the real 
welfare of the trade than those individuals 
who possessed large Cinchona woods of 
their own (at Cuchero, Pillao, and Cassapi), 
were guilty of great deception, and fre- . 
quently sold an adulterated and inferior 
article. Various kinds of Fever barks 
came into the market from the provinces 
north of Huanuco, under the name of the 
true Huanuco bark; and thus the pur- 
chasers in Europe became distrustful of 
them, and declared them to be of indiffer- 
ent quality, a character which they by no 
means deserve; my experiments on nume- 
rous kinds which I have collected and 
compared, proving them to possess, in the 
highest degree, all the medicinal virtues of 
this tribe. At the breaking out of the 
Revolution, when the union with the mo- 
ther-country was long interrupted, the 
emigration of many of these proprietors, 
and the want of capital in others, proved 
highly detrimental to the trade in bark: 
no new individuals came forward to sup- 
port the commerce with Spain and the few 
foreign merchants who resided at Lima were 
too ignorant of the nature of the business 
to venture upon making any extensive 
enced bark-collectors having dispersed for 
want of employment, the trade has fallen 
into abeyance ever since the year 1815. 
Many have been the endeavours made by 
the present proprietors of Cassapi, Cuchero, 
and Pampayaco, to revive a business which 
promises to be so profitable to themselves 7 
for the rest of fifteen years which the trees 
have enjoyed, has caused them to grow 50 
