DESCRIBED BY LINNZUS AS CL. ELUTERIA AND CL. CASCARILLA. 29 
author, both of which are remarkably good representations of a 
plant of which Dr. Daniell has brought home excellent specimens, 
and which (as far as I am aware) has never before been forwarded 
to European herbaria. Catesby’s description is as follows :—“ The 
llathera Bark; La Chachrille. These shrubs grow plentifully on 
most of the Bahama Islands, seldom above ten feet high, and 
rarely so big as a man's leg, though it is probable that, before 
these islands were exhausted of so much of it, that it grew to а 
larger size: the leaves are long, narrow, and sharp-pointed, and of 
а very pale light-green colour; at the ends of the smaller branches 
grow spikes of small hexapetalous white flowers, with yellow 
apices, which are succeeded by tricapsular pale-green berries, of 
the size of peas, each berry containing three small black seeds, one 
in every capsule. The bark of this tree being burnt, yields a fine 
perfume ; and, infused in either wine or water, gives a fine aromatic 
bitter." 
Ав in the former case, it was not until after the publication of 
the species in the first edition of his ‘Species Plantarum,’ that 
Linnzus became possessed of a specimen totally different from 
the original plant, but which he nevertheless referred to it. The 
same concurrence of circumstances as in the former case leads 
me to believe that this also was received from Dr. Patrick Browne. 
It perfectly agrees with the description of Clutia Cascarilla given 
in the same Dissertation in the * Amcenitates Academicæ, vol. v. 
p. 411, with the synonym of Browne, and with the figure of 
Sloane's * History of Jamaica, there quoted, and is the “ Wild 
Rosemary” of most of the West Indian Islands, subsequently de- 
scribed by Jacquin under the name of Croton lineare—a name, 
which has since been generally, but erroneously, considered as 
synonymous with the Clutia Cascarilla of Linneus. 
It only remains to formularize these details, with the addition of 
discriminative characters, premising that both the original species 
and those which have been substituted for them are true Crotons, 
in the comprehensive sense in which that genus is still maintained. 
1. CROTON ELUTERIA, foliis petiolatis subcordato-lanceolatis obtuse 
acuminatis supra viridibus squamulis peltatis raris punctatis subtus 
dense argenteo-lepidotis lucidis, spicis simplicibus axillaribus termi- 
nalibusque monoicis. 
Еш ега Providentiz, folio cordato subtus argenteo. Sweet Bark, s. 
cortex bene olens.  Petiv. сой. 4, n. 276. 
Elutheria, L. Hort. Cliff. p. 486 ! 
