630 ORD. XXXIX. Tricocce. croton cAscariLua. 
of a white or yellowish colour; the stamina are numerous, com- 
monly from ten to fifteen. The female flowers have no corolla; 
the calyx consists of five or six oval leaves; the styles are three, 
forked ; the capsule divides into three cells, each of which con- 
tains a single seed. 
Writers on the Materia Medica have differed much respecting 
the plant which produces the officinal cortex cascarillz ;* and even 
now this point does not appear to be sufficiently ascertained: the 
London College has therefore cautiously avoided making any bota- 
nical reference to the plant which affords it. Linnaeus, whose 
authority is certainly the best, in his first edition of the Mat. Med. 
considered the Cascarilla as a species of the Clutia; but in the 
second edition it is described as a Croton, and in his .Amenitates 
Academice we are again presented with the Clutia Cascarilla.’ 
What adds to this uncertainty is, that under both these genera it 
is referred to the same synonyma of Sloane and Browne ; yet it is 
remarkable, that neither of these authors notices the medicinal 
uses of its bark, although so long known as a medicine in great 
estimation in every part of Europe. 
The plant,* from which the annexed figure of the Cascarilla is 
taken, was found to agree very accurately with the generic cha- 
* This may be understood from the following names: 
Cortex Thuris. Dale Pharmac. p. 346. Cortex Thuris ae dictus, vel 
Thymiama. Rati Hisé. 1841. Storax rubra officinarum. Bauh. Pin. 453. 
Thus Judeorum. Park. Theat. 1602. Schakarilla, Chakarilla. a Exot. 8. 
Kina-kina Aromatica, Cascarilla, Cortex Eleterii sive Scacarilla officinarum, 
Cortex peruyianus griseus sive spurius. Geoff. M. M. 
» Vide vol. 5. p. 411. 
* It is mentioned only as being used in medicated baths, and for fomentations, 
Vide Sloane l. c. The Ricinoides Eleagni folio of Catesby, is stated by him to be 
a goad aromatic bitter, and, on being burnt, to yield a fine perfume. Carolin, 
vol. 2. p. 46, Walter, in his Flor. Partin: does not mention the Cascarilla, 
though he discovered a new species of the Croton. 
4 This specimen was procured from the garden at Sion-House, the seat of his 
Grace the Duke of Northumberland 
