UPA—XAN_ eae 
every bark. It is solid, black, hard, shining, insipid—so- 
luble in water, but dogs not form mucilage—insoluble in 
alcohol—precipitated by nitric and oxymuriatic acids, in 
the state of resin. a. 
No, 543,—Upas antrar. The celebrated Upas 
tree—the poison of the East Indies, about 
which so much fable existed, prior to the in- 
vestigations of our countryman, Dr. Horse- 
field, of Java. 
; W. 
No, 544,—Wintera aromAtica. Winter’s Bark’ 
tree. ee : 
Cl. 13. Ord. 4. Polyandria Tetragynia. Nat. ord. Magno- 
liz, Juss. ’ 
Cabinet specimen, Jeff. Coll. No. 735. + 
Orvicinat, Winter aromatice, Cortex. Edin. Winteraaro-— 
matica, Cortex U.S. Winter’s Bark. 2 
Native of the straits of Magellan—a large evergreen tree— 
discovered in 1577, by Captain Winter, Whose name it 
bears; very rare—scarcely ever met with in the shops. 
Quatirizs. Aromatic odour—pungent, hot, spicy taste, 
slowly imparted, but very permanent—contaias a volatile 
oi], on which its properties depend; it may be obtained 
__ by distillation in water. 
MEDreax_Prorertizs anp Uses. A warm aromatic, adapt- 
éd to every p which such a medicine is proper— 
has been used in scurvy; combined with simple bit- 
ters in dyspepsia—resembles ith which it is 
confounded. 4 
45.—Wooara. mS 
\ poisonous substance, produced, according to the opinion 
of Bancroft, by a species of Lrane—it differs little from 
The Pteunta {Pee D919.) Tt te nod hy the Indians of 
Guyana, to poison their arrows. 
be 
No. 546.—X ANTHORRH12A APIIFOLIA. Parsley-leay- 
ed Yellow-root. 
Cabinet specimen, Jeff. Col]. No. 736—figure, No. 737. 
Officinal by Phar, U. S. The root. = 
Indigenous. A pure bitter tonic. For a detaile account, 
hed Wee. oP Barton’s Veg. Mat. Med. U. S. Vol. I. 
plate 46. 
