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occupation of a site, with a dwelling-house for the European gardener, at an elevation 
of 6000 feet above the sea, and 2500 lower than the temporary buildings at Sinchal. 
After I left Darjeeling, I procured the occupation for one year of a garden and dwelling- 
house at Lebong, a warm, well-sheltered spur below Darjeeling, at an elevation of 
6000 feet above the sea. The plants and all the stores were removed from the tem¬ 
porary buildings at Sinchal to this site in the first week of April. Although the distance 
was seven miles, the arrangements were so carefully made by Mr. Jaffrey, who personally 
superintended the removal of the plants, that only one plant of Cinchona succirubra 
was slightly damaged. The number of plants brought from Sinchal to Lebong on the 
1st April were as follows :— 
Return of Cinchona Plants in the Nurseries at Darjeeling on the 31s£ March , 1863. 
Names of Species. 
Remaining on 
31st October. 
Remaining on 
31st March. 
' 
Remarks. 
C. succirubra. 
213 
328 
C. Calisaya. 
25 
30 
C. nitida. 
61 
100 
C. micrantha. 
51 
80 
C. Peruviana. 
8 
18 
C. Condaminea . 
None 
31 
The produce of eleven 
C. Pahudiana. 
1,921 
1,892 
plants of this species 
! C. species ignota . 
7 
10 
brought from Ceylon 
on 28th January. 
Total. 
2,286 
2,489 
When the highly unfavourable circumstances under which the plants were placed are 
remembered, along with the fact that the propagation of C. Pahudiana had been entirely 
discontinued, the progress shown in this Keport is satisfactory enough; for the best 
species, those which it is my object to increase as rapidly as consistent with the healthy 
condition of the plant, had been increased from 365 on the 31st October, to 592 on 
the 31st March. On the 1st April, 327 plants belonging to the following species of 
Cinchona were added to the stock at Darjeeling. These plants were obtained from 
Madras on the 31st January, 1863, and of the original number, 350, received from 
Madras, only 23 had been lost between Calcutta and Darjeeling during the two months 
that had intervened from the date of their arrival in Calcutta and their reaching Dar¬ 
jeeling. The numbers received are as follows :— 
Return of Cinchona Plants received at Darjeeling , including those from Madras , 
on the ls£ April , 1863. 
Names of Species. 
Number of Plants 
received from 
Madras on 1st 
April. 
Old stock existing 
at Darjeeling on 
1st April, 1863. 
Total Number of 
Plants at Darjeel¬ 
ing on 1st April, 
1863. 
C. succirubra . 
97 
323 
420 
C. Calisaya . 
21 
30 
51 
C. nitida . 
44 
100 
144 
C. micrantha . 
48 
80 
128 
C. Peruviana . 
23 
18 
41 
C. Condaminea . 
94 
31 
125 
C. Pahudiana . 
None 
1,892 
1,892 
C. species ignota . 
None 
10 
10 
Total.. 
327 
2,484 
2,811 
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