With great care and trouble chinchona plants and seeds have been transported from South America to India by Professor Markham; and in the mountainous regions of the East the tree is now cultivated and flourishing.
The chinchona (it is erroneously spelt cinchona) tree constitutes the type of a natural order (Chinchonaceae), which also includes ipecacuanhas and coffees.
Jussieu tells us that the first fever cured by means of Chinchona bark was that of a Jesuit at Malacotas, some leagues south of Loxa, in the year 1600.
Loxa afterwards became famous for its forests of Chinchona trees yielding Peruvian bark; the healing virtues of which were not made known to the Spaniards until fifty years after the time of Cieza de Leon.
The forests here abound in those beautiful chinchona trees, the fragrance and beauty of whose flowers are almost forgotten because of the inestimable value of their bark.
This is the celebrated Peruvian bark, to which the name of chinchona has been given.
They make their way into the unknown forest, where they suppose, from its elevation above the sea and its general appearance, that the chinchona trees will be found.
I should have mentioned that the chinchonatrees surrounding us were very beautiful and graceful.
We shall be safe there, and I doubt not obtain shelter in one of the huts of the chinchona gatherers.
But of far greater importance was the introduction into Europe of that priceless febrifuge and antiperiodic--chinchona bark.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chinchona" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
