Tas. 7515, 
CROTON ELUTERIA. 
Native of the Bahama Islds. 
Nat. Ord. Eurnorsracex.—Tribe Croronez. 
Genus Croton, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p- 293.) 
Croton (Eluteria) Hluteria; frutex v. arbuscula lepidota, ramis gracilibus, 
foliis longiuscule petiolatis ovato-cordatis obtuse acuminatis utrinque 
subtus precipue argenteo-lepidotis penninerviis marginibus subcrenatis, 
petiolo gracili eglanduloso, stipulis obsoletis : ff. masc. calycis laciniis 5 
patulis ovato-oblongis obtusis, petalis calyce duplo longioribus sub- 
spathulatis obtusis utrinque pubescentibus, staminibus 10-12 petalis 
longioribus, fl. foem.: calycis tubo hemispherico, lobis 5 late ovatis 
obtusis erectis ciliolatis, petalis maris, disci glandulis 10 minutis, 
staminodiis paucis, ovario globoso glanduloso, stigmatibus 3 sessilibus 
multifidis. : 
C. Eluteria, Benn. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. iv. (1860) p. 29. Daniell in 
Journ. Pharm. Soc. Ser, 2, vol. iv. p. 145, cwm Ie. Miill. Arg. in DO. 
Prodr. vol. xv. pars. IT. p. 516. Bentl. & Trim. Med. Pl. t. 238. Griseb. 
Fil. Brit. W. Ind. p. 39 (partim). 
C. homolepidus, Muell. Arg. l. ce. 518. P 
C. cascarilloides, Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cub. 17 (Herb. Wright. n. 1971)? (non 
Geisel.). 
Clutia Eluteria, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1042 (excl, Syn.). 
C. Eluteria s. Cascarilla, Woodv. Med. Bot. p. 633, t. 228, fig. 2. 
Elutheria, Linn. Hort. Cliff. p. 486. 
Elutheria Providentiz, folio cordato, &c., Petiv. Coll. (1747) 4, n. 276. 
This interesting plant, the ‘‘Sweet-wood” of the 
Bahamas, yields the ‘Cascarilla Bark” of commerce, 
which has been from a very early period imported into 
Europe from Nassau, New Providence; though it was 
not till comparatively recently (1860) that it was distin- 
guished from several congeners with which it had been 
confounded. It seems to have been in cultivation in 
Europe upwards of a century and a half ago, for it is 
enumerated by Linnzus in his ‘Hortus Cliffortianus,” 
published in 1787, and according to Dr. Daniell it was 
introduced into England (probably from Holland) by 
Phillip Miller, though I do not find any mention of it in 
that author’s “ Dictionary of Gardening.” Its identification 
as the Linnean Hlutheria Providentie by the late Mr. 
JANUARY Ist, 1897, 
