Note 1301 — I.—PHÆNOGAMOUS OR FLOWERING PLANTS. (continued 10)

The circumstances are fully narrated by La Condamine (Mém. de l’Acad. royale des Sciences, année 1738). But the cure of the countess was known in Europe much before this, for it is mentioned by Sebastiano Bado in his Anastasis, Corticis Peruviæ, seu Chinæ Chinæ defensio published at Genoa in 1663. When Bado wrote, it was a debated question whether the bark was introduced to Europe by the count of Chinchon or by the Jesuit Fathers.