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DRIMYS WinrTer1. 
Winter's Bark. 
Nat. Ord. MaGNnoLtaceE#.—PoLyYaNDRIA MoNoGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Flores hermaphroditi. Calyx estivatione clausus, valvatim de- 
) cil Rs coneavis, persistentibus. Corolle petala 6-24, 
fia, decidua. Stamina plurima, hypogyna, juxta 
nem inserta, pluriseriata; filamenta late linearia, 
biloculares, loculis subrotundis, extrorsum adnatis, 
longitudinaliter dehiscentib ‘Ovaria 2-8, in summo toro verticillatim sessilia, 
dorso gibba libera, unilocularia. Ovula juxta suturam ventralem 6-9, biseriatim 
pendula, anatropa. Stigmata in ovariis subterminalia, sessilia, mammilleeformia. 
Bacce obovato-gibbe, sessiles. Semina abortu pauca, inversa, obovata ; testa 
crustacea. Embryo in basi albuminis carnosi, minutissimus, orthotropus ; radi- 
cula supera.—Arbores vel frutices in America a Mexico ad fretum Magellan, 
necnon in Nova Zelandia crescentes, cortice aromatico, foliis sparsis petiolatis esti- 
pulatis integerrimis subtus incanis vel glaucis, calycibusque et petalis plus minus 
pellucido-punctatis, floribus axillaribus, solitariis vel in apice ramulorum approzi- 
matis aut congestis, nunc umbellatis, bracteis involucrantibus caducissimis, squa- 
mulis gemmarum terminalium convolutis, acuminatis, caducis. Endl. 
Drimys Winteri; foliis ellipticis lanceolatisve subtus glaucis, floribus umbel 
latis 3-plurifloris, calyce diphyllo, petalis lanceolatis numerosis, ovartis — 
subdecem. cent 
Drimys Winteri. Forst. Gen. p. 84. ¢. 42. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p 718. 
Hook. fil. Bot. of Ant. Voy. v. 2. p. 229. Git 
WINTERANA aromatica. ‘Sol. Med. Obs. v. 5. p. 46. ¢. 1.” 
. WINTERA aromatica. Murray, Syst. p. 507. Smith in Rees’ Oycl. 
Drimys Granatensis. Linn. fil. Suppl. p. 269. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 78. 
Vintera Granadensis. Hum. et Bonpl. Pl. Aiquin. v. 1. p. 205. t. 58. 
Drrmys Chilensis. De Cand. Syst. Veg.v. 1. p. 444. Prodr.v. 1. p. 78. De 
Lessert, Ic. v. 1. t. 85. Hook. et Arn. in Bot. Mise. v. 3. p. 134. 
Drimys Mexicana. De Cand. Syst. v. 1. p. 444. Prodr. v. 1. p. 78. 
We are glad to be able to figure, from a living plant, a 
flowering specimen of a tree which once possessed some cele- 
brity under the name of Winter's Bark, the use of it having 
been brought into notice by Captain Winter, who accompanied 
Sir Francis Drake, in the year 1578, to the Straits of Magellan, 
where it was first discovered. It afterwards became confounded 
AUGUST IsT, 1854. 
