There are numerous species of chinchona, producing bark of greatly different values.
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Among others is the chinchona-tree, from which quinine is obtained.
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This is the celebrated Peruvian bark, to which the name of chinchona has been given.
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We shall be safe there, and I doubt not obtain shelter in one of the huts of the chinchona gatherers.
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The region round the little town of Loxa, on the southern frontier of Ecuador, is the original home of the chinchona.
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Sister Simplice, who had been watching with her, availed herself of this slumber to go and prepare a new potion of chinchona.
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Its use dates back to World War II, and it's derived from the bark of the chinchona tree, like quinine, a centuries-old antimalarial.
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The chinchona (it is erroneously spelt cinchona) tree constitutes the type of a natural order (Chinchonaceae), which also includes ipecacuanhas and coffees.
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The tree itself was not described until 1738, and Linnaeus established the genus "Chinchona" in honor of the Countess.
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I found it in forest in the Chinchona reserves, at an elevation of about 5000 feet, on the 14th May.
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[Footnote: See Cleghorn, Forests and Gardens of South India, Edinburgh, 1861, and The British Parliamentary return on the Chinchona Plant, 1866.
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I found both of them the same day (the 21st May), in the Chinchona reserves, at an elevation of about 5000 feet.