Bennett, of the British Museum, is due to the specimen 
of the Hortus Cliffortianus being in that institution. 
CO. Eluteria is a native of all, or almost all, the islets 
of the Bahamas Archipelago ; and probably also of Cuba, 
for the Croton homolepidus of the latter island is hardly, 
if at all, distinguishable from it (by dried specimens), The 
bark is exported in the form of quills, and having an 
agreeable aromatic odour when burned, is an ingredient 
in the. manufacture of incense and pastilles, and is also 
used to flavour tobaccos. Its taste, on the other hand, is 
warm and nauseously bitter, which is against its employ- 
ment as a drug, for which it is recommended in cases of 
chronic diarrhoea, dysentery, and some forms of dyspepsia. 
The annual export of the bark, which has been during the 
last twenty years, on an average, 100,000 lbs., is now 
decreasing, and this has led the Governor of the island, 
Sir W. F. Haynes Smith, K.C.M.G., in a dispatch dated 
May 6th, 1896, to address a request to the Secretary of 
State for the Colonies, “that the authorities of Kew 
would assist him in framing regulations for the gatherin 
the ‘Cascarilla Bark’ on the Crown lands of the Colony.” 
In this dispatch Sir W. Haynes Smith points out “ that 
the sources of supply have been improperly drawn upon, 
to the destruction of the plant and the quality of the 
bark,” and that the latter ‘might be improved, and its 
use in commerce largely increased. He adds, that ‘‘ the 
best quality is gathered at Atwood’s Cay, containing about 
6500 acres, which is altogether Crown property, where 
licenses to gather have hitherto been granted, but where 
there are no regulations on the subject of gathering, 
or revenues derived from it, while the supply is de- 
teriorating.”’ : 
In accordance with this request, in the following June, 
Dr. Morris, the Assistant Director of Kew, who had 
visited the Bahamas, drew up a Report, indicating the 
proper measures to be taken for increasing both the 
quantity and quality of the bark in future, and other 
matters for consideration in connection with the subject. 
It is only of late years, and after a prolonged corre- 
spondence, that living plants of this Croton have been re- 
introduced into Europe. This was in May, 1887, when a 
case containing three was received at the Royal Gardens 
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