DESCRIBED BY LINN^US AS CL. ELUTERIA AND CL. CASCARILLA. 29 



author, both of which are remarkably good representations of a 

 plant of which Dr. Daniell has brought home excellent specimens, 

 and which (as far as I am aware) has never before been forwarded 

 to European herbaria. Catesby's description is as follows : — " The 

 Ilathera Bark ; La Chachrille. These shrubs grow plentifully on 

 most of the Bahama Islands, seldom above ten feet high, and 

 rarely so big as a man's leg, though it is probable that, before 

 these islands were exhausted of so much of it, that it grew to a 

 larger size : the leaves are long, narrow, and sharp-pointed, and of 

 a very pale light -green colour ; at the ends of the smaller branches 

 grow spikes of small hexapetalous white flowers, with yellow 

 apices, which are succeeded by tricapsular pale-green berries, of 

 the size of peas, each berry containing three small black seeds, one 

 in every capsule. The bark of this tree being burnt, yields a fine 

 perfume ; and, infused in either wine or water, gives a fine aromatic 

 bitter." 



As in the former case, it was not until after the publication of 

 the species in the first edition of his ' Species Plantarum,' that 

 Linnaeus became possessed of a specimen totally diiferent from 

 the original plant, but which he nevertheless referred to it. The 

 same concurrence of circumstances as in the former case leads 

 me to believe that this also was received from Dr. Patrick Brovme. 

 It perfectly agrees with the description of Clutia Cascarilla given 

 in the same Dissertation in the ' Amcenitates Academicae,' vol. v. 

 p. 411, with the synonym of Browne, and with the figure of 

 Sloane's ' History of Jamaica,' there quoted, and is the " Wild 

 Rosemary" of most of the "West Indian Islands, subsequently de- 

 scribed by Jacquin under the name of Croton linear e — a name, 

 which has since been generally, but erroneously, considered as 

 synonymous with the Chdia Cascarilla of Linnaeus. 



It only remains to formularize these details, with the addition of 

 discriminative characters, premising that both the original species 

 and those which have been substituted for them are true Crotons, 

 in the comprehensive sense in which that genus is still maintained. 



1. Croton eluteria, foliis petiolatis subcordato-lanceolatis obtuse 

 acuminatis supra viridibus squamulis peltatis raris punctatis subtus 

 dense argenteo-lepidotis lueidis, spieis siraplicibus axillaribus termi- 

 nalibusque monoicis. 



Elutheria Providentiae, folio eordato subtus argenteo. Sweet Bark, s. 

 cortex bene olens. Petiv. coll. 4, n. 276. '^ 



Elutheria, L. Hort. Cliff, p. 486 ! ' • 



