DRIMYS WINTERL. 
THE SECONDARY CHARACTERS, 
Daimys. Calyx, two—three cleft. Corolla two—three pe- 
tals, (sometimes more), Stamens, numerous, clavate. Anthers 
two-celled. Ovaries four—eight. Carpels conjested, baccate, 
many seeded. 
Calyzx splitting unequally. Petals numerous. Stamens club-shaped, with terminal 
two-lobed anthers. Style none. Berries superior, aggregate. Seeds, several in a 
double row. 
THE SPECIFIC CHARACTERS, 
Dremys Wintert. Leaves, alternate, obtuse, oblong, glau- 
cous beneath. Peduncles simple, approximated or very short, 
divided into elongated pedicels. 
Leaves alternate, petiolate, oblong, obtuse, entire, smooth. Flowers small, solitary, 
or in clusters of from three to four. Bark of the trunk gray, that of the branches green. 
THE ARTIFICIAL CHARACTERS. 
Ciass Ponyanpria. Stamens twenty or more, arising from the 
receptacle (hypogynous.) Orper Pouyeynia, Leaves never pel- 
tate. T'rees with large showy flowers. 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
Wintir’s Barx was brought before the medical profession in a 
paper read to the Medical Society of London, in 1779, by the 
facetious John Fothergill, M.D. In this paper is published 
a history of the discovery of the tree, with a botanical account 
of it, drawn up by the celebrated Dr. Solander. It appears that 
the tree and the bark were unknown until the return of Captain 
John Winter from a voyage to the South Seas, in 1579. Captain- 
Winter was the commander of the ship Elizabeth, which sailed 
with Sir Francis Drake in 1577, but after having passed through 
_ the Straits of Magellan, on the 8th of October of the following 
year, was obliged by stress of weather to return to the Straits, 
and remaining there some time, procured the bark, which - 
_ sius, in honor of him, named Cortex Winteranus. — 
Other navigators, upon visiting the Straits, noticed the tree, 
| but _—* dofinita » was known of its — until in 1691, _ = 
