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WINTERA AROMATICA, ~ WINTER’s BARK TREE, 
ame : 
SYNONYMA. Winterana- aromatica. Solander in Med. Obfer- 
vations &F Inquiries. vol. 5. p. 41. ¢.1. Drimys Winteri pedunculis 
aggregatis terminalibus. Forfer i in Nov. AG, Upfal. vol. 3, p. 18%. 
. Laurifolia magelliana, cortice acri, Banh. Pin, -Periclymenum 
redtum foliis laurinis cortice acri aromatico. Sloane in Phil. Tranf- 
vol. 17. p. 923. tab. 16 ft 1. 2. 
_ Winteranus cortex. Pharm. Edinb. . 
Polyandria Tetragynia. Schreb. Gen. Plant. 929. 
Gen. Oh. ‘Cal. 3-lobus. es ~ f. 
Qe ———* — oO 
Baca clavata. ese : 
; 
a o o. W. peduneats segrezt teins, itil g quatuor. 
THIS very large: 
bake of the trunk 
branches. is green anc 
obtufe, flat, {mooth, 
derneath, and placed 
ight of fifty feet. The 
inkled, but that on the 
e oval, or “elliptical, entire, 
en, of a pale bluifh colour un- 
\ thick footftalks. Flowers white, 
placed on long pedu proceed from the alz of the leaves. 
at thé tops of the branches. Bratex oblong, entire, concave, pointed, 
whitith, placed at the bafe of the peduncles. Calyx of one leaf, firm, 
pi dividing i into three irregular pointed lobes. Corolla of feven petals, | 
which are unequal, oval, obtufe, concave, ereét, white. Filaments. 
~ numerous, (from 15 to 30) much fhorter than the petals. Antherz 
large, oval, divided longitudinally. Germina from three to fix, 
turbinated. Styles none. Stigmata divided, flat. Capfules flefhy, 
containing four triangular feeds. 
It is a native of the Streights of Magellan and Terra del Fuego. 
Dr. Solander 
