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X. The Botanical Hiftory of the eh aan y Obf RU 4 ar. D. : 
Foreign Member of the Linnean Society. 
Read December 2, 1788. 
HIS tree, the bark of which has frequently been miftaken 
for the real Cortex Winteranus, has, like many other medi- 
cmal plants, been hitherto but imperfectly known to botanifts. 
Clufius is the firft who has recorded the introduction of this 
bark from the Weft-Indies, which feems to have been at the be- 
ginning of the feventeenth century; as he fays in his Exot. lib. iv. 
cap. 4, de Canella alba quorundam, ‘ Ante paucos annos (before 
1605) coepit exoticus cortex inferri, cui nomen Canellz albæ indi- 
derunt ;" and itconfequently became firft known about 20 years after 
Winter's return from the Straits of Magellan; whofe bark we alfo 
find to have been firft mentioned and defcribed by Clufius, in notis in 
Garciam, p. 30, under the name of Cortex Winteranus, as a compli- 
ment to the difcoverer. 
Caspar BAUHIN mentions our bark feveral times in his Pinax; 
and calls it, p. 409, 
Pfeudo-caffia cinnamomea Americana, 
Canella Peruana. 
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