648 ORD. XXXIK. Tricocce.  WwiINTERA AROMATICA. 
Polyandria Tetragynia. Schreb. Gen. Plant. 929... 
Gen. Ch. Cal. 3-lobus. Petala6.s.12. Germina clavata. Stylus 9. 
Bacca clavata. 
Sp. Ch. W. pedunculis aggregatis terminalibus, pistillis quatuor. — 
THIS very large tree often rises to the height of fifty feet. 
The bark of the trunk is grey, and somewhat wrinkled, but that on 
the branches is green and smooth. Leaves oval, or elliptical, 
entire, obtuse, flat, smooth, shining, evergreen; of a pale bluish 
colour underneath, and placed irregularly upon thick footstalks. 
Flowers white, placed on long peduncles, which proceed from: the 
ale of the leaves at the tops of the branches. Bractez oblong, 
entire, concave, pointed, whitish, placed at the base of the pedun- 
cles. Calyx of one leaf, firm, dividing into three irregular pointed 
dobes. Corolla of seven petals, which are unequal, oval, obtuse, 
-concave, erect, white. Filaments numerous, (from 15 to 30) much 
_ shorter than the petals. ere large, oval, divided bengeeinestty. 
Germina from three to six, turbinated. y - Stigmata 
divided, flat. Capsules fleshy, containing four iran poli seeds. 
It is a native of the Streights of Magellan and Terra del Fuego. 
Dr. Solander relates that “ the tree which produces the Winter’s 
‘* Bark was utterly unknown to the Europeans till the return of 
*« Captain John Winter, who, in the year 1577, sailed with Sir 
*« Francis Drake, as commander of a ship called the Elizabeth, 
«« destined for the South Seas; but immediately after they had 
“* got through the Streights of Magellan, Captain Winter, on the 
* 8th of October, was obliged, by stress of weather, to part com- 
‘““ pany, and to go back again into the Streights, from whence he 
« returned into England in June 1579, and brought with him 
*« several pieces of this aromatic bark, which Clusius called after 
«s him Cortex Winteranus. Several authors have mentioned it 
** since in their botanical works; but all they have said has been 
