HYPOPETALER. 
Posed to yield Angustura bark. The bark of the Winter’s- 
bark tree ( Wintera aromatica or Drymis a.) is antiscorbutic, 
_ and also stomachic and carminatiye, and is very pungent and 
aromatic. The seeds of Illicium anisatum are highly aroma- 
tic and stimulant ; these, and the flowers of some other plants 
vin this family, are employed to give an aroma to various li- 
-quors, both in Europe and in the West Indies. 
Officinal Plant. 
Wintera aromatica. 
ORDER LXXIX. 
MENISPERMEZ. 
: Cuaracrers.— Twining shrubs, with simple, petiolated, 
alternate, mucronate leaves, without stipules ; flowers, mi- 
nute and generally diccious ; calyx and corolla formed of se- _ 
Yeral sepals and petals, in 1 row or more, with 3 or 4 in 
each row, inserted under the pistils, and early deciduous ; 
stamens often monadelphous, sometimes free, in number equal 
to the petals, or 2, 3, or 4 times as numerous, but variable, 
anthers adnate; ovaries many, }-celled, and with 1 style, dis- 
tinct, or occasionally united into a 1 or many-celled ovary ; 
pericarp generally a 1-seeded drupe, somewhat crooked or 
kidney-shaped; seed of the same form as the pericarp, with) 
ho or very little albumen, and a curved embryo. noe 
‘Exampie.—Mehispermum Coceulus. (Anamirta .) eg pe 
“Meprcrxat Prorerties.—Many of the roots of the pl ; nts 
this small family contain a bitter principle, and @ con 
le  yemae of starch. Calumba-root, a — 
