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But it will be nécetfary to obferve here, that Dr. Wright, in is 
account of the medicinal plants growing in Jamaica,® gives the name 
Croton Elutheria to a tree, the bark of which he fays “is the fame 
as the Cafcarilla or Elutheria of the fhops:” it feems therefore pro- 
bable, that different fpecies of Clutia may produce bark of the fame, 
or of fimilar qualities to that of Cafcarilla,as we find feveral inftances 
in which the fame drug is produced by various fpecies of plants. 
That the tree here called by Dr. Wright Croton does not belong to. 
this genus, but it is evidently a Clutia, appears by the dioicous fpe- 
cimens of it fent by him to the Prefident of the Royal Society; a part 
of which, with the male flowers, is delineated in the prefent plate, 
in order that the Jamaica and Bahama Cajfcarilla may be compared 
together; the former being diftinguifhed by figure I. 
The Clutia Eluteria feems to have been firft introduced into Britain 
by Mr. P. Miller; but it is not to be found in the King’s garden at 
Kew, nor have we {een it cultivated any where near the Metropolis. 
According to a late German author,’ it grows abundantly in the 
Bahama Iflands, where the bark, which forms a principal export, is 
fold at the very low rate of 105, 6d. a @. 
Refpecting the medical hiftory, qualities, and ufes of Cafcarilla 
bark, we have nothing to add to what is given in the firft volume of” 
Medical Botany. 
_ © Med. Fourn. vol. 8. p. ‘ 
4 Vide Je D, Schepf. Reife durch einige der mittlern und fudlichen vereinigtem 
pordameritanifchen fiaaten nac oft-Florida undden Bahamh deft 
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