The earth and its inhabitants .. . he natives when Juan de Vega ventured to use it in1(5.^8 to cure the chuclnt, or endemic ague contracted by the Countess de Chin-chon. Henceforth the poivon de la condem (countesss powders ), later called Jesuits powders, Jesuits bark, or Peruvian bark, entered into theEuropean pharmacopoeia. The ratanhia, much used in the case of dysentery and hiemorrhages, was alsoa member of the Ecuadorean flora. The cinnamon discovered by GonzaloPizarro in the eastern forests is a nectandra, one species of which yields the * Meteorological conditions of Ecuador : F)t*rme«
The earth and its inhabitants .. . he natives when Juan de Vega ventured to use it in1(5.^8 to cure the chuclnt, or endemic ague contracted by the Countess de Chin-chon. Henceforth the poivon de la condem (countesss powders ), later called Jesuits powders, Jesuits bark, or Peruvian bark, entered into theEuropean pharmacopoeia. The ratanhia, much used in the case of dysentery and hiemorrhages, was alsoa member of the Ecuadorean flora. The cinnamon discovered by GonzaloPizarro in the eastern forests is a nectandra, one species of which yields the * Meteorological conditions of Ecuador : F)t*rme« of Alitiide. Menn Tem- 11 1 - iw .^ Roinfall. •* Feet. perature. Heat. Cold. J Debet*. Guayaquil 33 79= F. Quito . 9,;0 68° F. 79° F. F. 47 Cuenca 9,470 68° F. FLOEA OF FCUADOE. 241 so-called cinnamon of Santa Fe. Another tree growing in the same regionproduces copal, and the upper Kio Mira basin is the home of the false pepperUchinus niolle) which has become so common round the Mediterranean seaboard. I to. The Quitonians also possess the gumjKsa, a kind of tea, which grows sponta-neously in dense thickets on the slopes of Pichincha and other mountains. In the Ecuadorean Andes the upper limit of arborescent vegetation attains analtitude of 11,800 feet above sea-level. But many vast spaces comprised within17 242 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES REGIONS. this zone are absolutely treeless, despite a superabundant rainfall. Thus thevolcanic uplands of the (iuito and Riobamba basins have no trees except willows(capitd) or wild cherries {rhamnushumbokltiana), fringing the river-banks. On thesandv Riobamba plain nothing is seen except agaves, euphorbiic, Baibiry figs,and other cactusjs, besides a species of reed kuowa by the (iuichui name of nij^ig(anuido nitid(i). Even far below the plateau, in the Guallabamba gorge, trees are absent, whichis to. be attributed, not to the climate, but to the volcanic ground, wherethe rain waters rapidly disappear. But forest growths
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