ORD, XXXII. Cruinales. 569 
- QUASSIA SIMARUBA. SIMARUBA QUASSIA.* 
ee ER NN ae EN ea eR 
SYNONYAMA. Simarouba. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Simaruba 
amara, Aublet Hist. des Plantes de la Guiane Vrangoise. tom. i. 
» p. 859. tab. 331, 332. Euonymus fructu nigro tetragono, vulgo 
Simarouba. Barrere France equinoxiale. p.50. Le Simarouba 
vel Bois amer, Des Marchais Voyages en Guinée et a Cayenne, 
vol. ii, p. 124. Bancrofi’s Nat. Hist. of Guiana, p. 84. A Bo- 
tanical and Medical account of the Quassia Simaruba. Wright in 
the Transactions uf the Royal Society of Edinb. vol. ii. p. 73. & seq. 
Class Decandria. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 529. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Nectarium 5-phyllum. 
Pericarpia 5, distantia, 1-sperma. 
Sp. Ch. Q. floribus monoicis, foliis abrupte pinnatis: foliolis 
alternis subpetiolatis, petiolo nudo, floribus paniculatis. 
Supp. Plant. 
THIS tree grows to a considerable height and thickness, and 
sends off alternate spreading branches: the bark which covers the 
trunks of the old trees, is black, and a little furrowed, but that of 
the younger trees is smooth, grey, and here and there marked 
with broad spots of a yellow colour: the wood is hard, white, and 
without any remarkable taste: the leaves are numerous, and stand 
alternately upon the branches; each leaf is composed of several 
pinne, nearly of an elliptical shape, on the upper side smooth, 
and of a deep green colour, on the under side whitish, and stand 
alternately upon short footstalks: the flowers are of a yellow 
colour, and placed on branched spikes, er long panicles: the 
+ 7am eng is known in Tannich by the names of Mountain Damson, Bitter 
Damson, and Staye-wood. The shops are supplied with this bark from Guiana; 
but now we may have it from our own islands at a moderate expense.” veep” Ce. 
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