CORTEX WINTERANUS 



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mended in America as an external application for reducing inflam- 

 mation/ 



MAGNOLIACE^. 



CORTEX W^INTERANUS. 



Cortex Winteri, Cortex MageUanicus ; Wintei^'s Barh, Wintei^'s CinTul- 

 mon ; E. Ecorce de Winter; G. Wintersrinde, Magellanischer Zimmt. 



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Botanical Origin — Drwiys^ Winter 



tree distributed 



Mexico 



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It 



presents considerable variation in form and size of leaf and flower 

 in the different countries in which it occurs, on which account it has 

 received from botanists several distinct specific names. Hooker' has 



to a single type, a course in which he has 



in his monograph of the small order 



reduced these 



been 



Winte 



followed 



racecif. — 



species 



by Eichler 



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in the botanic garden at Dublin. 



History — In 1577 Captain Drake, afterwards better known as Sir 



Seas 



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ships ; and having: abandoned two of his smaller vessels, passed into the 



Ma 



year. But on the 7th September, 1578, there arose a dre£ 

 which dispersed the little fleet. Drake's ship, the Pelican, 



southward, the El 



the command 



eadful storm, 

 was driven 

 bin Winter, 



repassed the Straits and returned to England, while the third vessel, the 

 Marigold, was heard of no more. 



Winter remained three weeks in the Straits of Magellan to recover 

 the health of his crew, during which period, according to Clusius (the 

 fact is not mentioned in Hakluyt's account of the voyage), he collected 

 a certain aromatic bark, of w^hich, having removed the acridity by 

 steeping it in honey, he made use as a spice and medicine for scurvy 

 during his voyage to England, where he arrived in 1579. 

 , A specimen of this bark having been presented to Clusius, he gave 



it the nnmp nf Hnr^^inr,^ 



Winte 



quot 



i^fter wards 



Exot 



erpuB, 

 ;. He 



received. a specimen with wood attached, wliich had been 



Van Noort, another well-known Dutch navigator, who visited the 



Maerella 



make a boat, and that the bark of the trees was hot and biting like 



pepper. 

 Europe. 



Murray 



bark to 



J J^«^^ooi- ofPharviacy, 1872. 385. 

 X iy^^ SP^^^^, acrid, biting. 

 ^(ora Antarctica, ii. (1847) 229 



* Martins, Flor, Bras. fasc. 38(1864) 134 

 Eichler however admits five principal varie 



ties, viz. a, Magellanica; p, ChilaiSis; y 

 Granatensis ; d.revohUaj «. anguMlfolia. 



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