Pinchicya pnhcsccns, 



THE PUBESCENT PINCKNEYA. 



Synonymes. 



Pinckneya pubens, 



Fincneya pubescf.ns, 



Pincneya pubescent, 



Behaarte Fincneya, 



Pinckneya, 



Georgia Bark, Pinckneya, 



MicHAUx, North American Sylva. 



Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. 



Persoon, Enchyndium Bolanicum. 



France. 



Germany. 



Britain. 



United States. 



Dtrivalions. The word pubescent is derived from the Latin pubesco, to become downy , in allusion to the down which grows 

 upon the flowers, leaves, and branches of this tree. Pubescens signifies an incipient state of becoming covered with hair or 

 down ; and pubens implies fully grown wiih hair or down. The French and German names have the same signification as lh 

 botanic one. From the properties of the bark of this species, and from its abounding in the state of Georgia, it is called Georgia 

 Bark. 



Engravings. Michaux, North American Sylva, pi. 49; Audubon, Birds of America, ii., pi. cliv. j Loudon, Arboretum Bn 

 Unnicum, ii., fig. 830; and the figures below. 



Specijic Characters. 

 with red. 



Branches and leaves tomentose. Flowers rather large, pubescent, white, and tinned 



Descripllon. 



52iS!^HE Pinckneya pubes- 

 cens is a low free, di- 

 viding itself into nu- 

 j;^ meroiis branches, and 

 rarely exceeds the height of twenty -five feet, 

 with a stem five or six inches in diameter. Its 

 leaves are opposite, four or five inches long, of 

 a light-green colour, and downy beneath. The 

 flowers, which put forth in May and June, are 

 white, with longitudinal rose-coloured stripes, 

 and occur in panicles at the extremity of the 

 branches. Each flower is accompanied by a 

 floral leaf, bordered with rose-colour, near the 

 upper edge. The capsules are round, com- 

 pressed in the middle, and contain a great 

 number of small winged seeds. 



Geography^ (^c. The Pinckneya is indige- 

 nous to the southern parts of the United States, 

 and particularly abounds on the borders of 

 swamps in Georgia and Florida, where the soil is deep and fertile, and where 

 the situation is rather cool and shady. In England, the plant is generally kept 

 in green-houses or cold-pits ; but it will thrive much better if planted in the free 

 groimd, and trained against a wall with a southern exposure. It requires a 

 shady situation, and is said to thrive best in a mixture of sand and peat. 



Properties atid Uses. The wood of the Pinckneya is soft, which, together 

 with its diminutive size, renders it unfit for use in the arts. The inner bark is 

 extremely bitter, and appears to partake of the febrifugal virtues of the Cinchona 

 oflicinalis; for, the inhabitants of the southern parts of Georgia successfully 

 employ it in the cure of the intermittent fevers, which, during the latter part of 

 -"mmpr and in autumn, prevail in that coimtrv. 



