654 ORD. XXXIX. Tricoccw. ‘cruria cASCARILLA. 
female flowers stand in spikes, and are composed of a calyx 
divided into five ovate leafits, enclosing an equal number of small 
whitish petals, and within these the nectaria are placed. The 
female flower produces a roundish germen, supporting three bifid 
spreading styles, terminated by obtuse stigmata: the capsule is 
globular, rough, marked with six furrows, and divided into three 
cells, containing a solitary oval shining seed. 
The history of the Cascarilla Clutia will determine what was 
left doubtful in that of the Croton Cascarilla, which is figured on 
the authority of Linnzus;* though we then observed that it did 
not appear “ sufficiently ascertained” whether or no it furnished 
the officinal Cascarilla. This point however we can now con- 
fidently decide in the negative. 
Among other circumstances, which tended to involve the parental 
source of Cascarilla long in uncertainty, was the assertion of some 
authors,® that it was a native of the Spanish Main, and was thence 
imported into Europe; thus founding a presumption, that the 
Cascarilla and Elutheria Barks were different, and that the latter 
only was the produce of the Bahama Islands. But this assertion 
we have discovered to be contrary to fact; for, upon inquiry, we 
do not find that this drug was ever exported from Spanish America, 
but that the Bahamas have constantly supplied the European 
markets with Cascarilla bark, a parcel of which was sent here 
from one of those Islands, along with specimens of the tree pro- 
ducing it; of which the figure here given is a faithful representa- 
tion, as may be seen by comparing it with the original in the 
herbarium of Sir Joseph Banks. 
But it will be necessary to observe here, that Dr, Wright, in his 
account of the medicinal plants growing in Jamaica,‘ gives the 
name Croton Elutheria to a tree, the bark of which he says “ is the 
* The bark of this plant, according to Dr. Wright, has none of the sensible 
qualities of Cascarilla. 
* See Boulduc. Hist. de Pc. des Sc. 1719. p. 14. Spielmann Mf, M. p. 249. 
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