1Connect the following: 1630s, A Spanish viceroy of a South American country who got his title from a Spanish county which is a town and municipality now 50 km from Madrid and the introduction of a particular South American plant in the mountains of Nilgiris& Darjeeling in the 1850s and what do you arrive at?
The cinchona plant from which quinine is extracted and used for treating malaria and also manufacturing tonic water.
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First Published: Mon, May 06 2019. 01:20 IST
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