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• This reputation is based on the abundance in that country of two species, the _Cinchona calisaya_ and _Boliviana, _ the best known and most valued in the market. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
• Malaria victims were treated with quinine, an extract from the bark of the cinchona tree.
• But because of cultural differences and a dearth of long-range radio transmitters those initiatives also ended up being small-time, such as fake surrender orders from their commanders dropped on Japanese troops in Burma or rumors spread that their quinine, which comes from the cinchona, was made from the worthless bark of other trees. Wild Bill Donovan
• The stereochemistry of quinine is formidable: it has four chiral centres, and thus 16 stereoisomers - of which only one is the natural ingredient of cinchona bark.
• Fortunately, the group was traveling through the very region that is home to the fabled cinchona tree—the "fever tree," as the natives called it—whose bark is the source of quinine, used as a treatment. An Expedition Without End
• -- This belongs to the cinchona family, and produces the fruit called genipap or marmalade box. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
• In 1735, Joseph de Jussieu, a French botanist, collected detailed information about the cinchona trees.
• On the coasts of New Andalusia, the cuspa is considered as a kind of cinchona; and we were assured, that some Aragonese monks, who had long resided in the kingdom of New Grenada, recognised this tree from the resemblance of its leaves to those of the real Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1
• The cinchona tree is native to the eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains in South America.
• The cinchona tree was, in effect, the key to all the other riches of the New World, because without it Europeans could not survive the debilitating fevers that seemed to strike everyone who ventured into the Americas.