Tradition states that El Almendro was founded in 1892, when Nery L�pez, Perfecto Romero Acosta, Francisco Gonz�lez, and others, searchers of rubber trees and growers of Ipecacuanha ( known locally as raicilleros ) arrived looking for rubber and Ipecacuanha ( known locally as raicilla ).
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Their only child, a daughter Mary Louise ( known as May ), was born in 1859 . As part of his India Office duties Markham investigated and reported to the Indian government on the introduction of Peruvian cotton into the Madras Presidency, on the growth of ipecacuanha in Brazil and the possibilities for cultivating this medicinal plant in India, and on the future of the pearl industry at Tirunelveli in Southern India.
