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The Cinchona Region of South America, 1862

The shaded area indicates the native distribution of cinchona trees in the Andes. From Peruvian Bark: A Popular Account of the Introduction of Chinchona Cultivation into British India, 1860-1880, by Clements Markham, London, 1880

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