Pinckneya pubescens, 
THE PUBESCENT PINCKNEYA. 
Synonymes. 
Pinckneya pubens, 
Pincneya pubesce.ns, 
Pincneya pubescent, 
Behaarte Pincneya, 
Pinckneya, 
Georgia Bark, Pinckneya, 
Michaux, North American Sylva. 
Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. 
Persoon, Enchyridium Botanicum. 
France. 
Germany. 
Britain. 
United States. 
novations The word pubescens is derived from the Latin pubesco, to become downy , in allusion to the down which grows 
nno the flowers leaves, and branches of this tree. Pubescens signifies an incipient state of becommg covered with hair or 
npon me nt erB > ininl ' ips fullv erown w ith hair or down. The French and German names have the same signification as the 
totanfc one f FtZ Z^o^JoHte bark of this species, and from its abounding in the state of Georgia, it is called Georgia 
Bark. 
Engravings. Michaux, North American Sylva, pi. 49; Audubon, Birds of America, ii., pi. clxv. ; Loudon, Arboretum Bri 
tannicum, ii., fig. 830; and the figures below. 
Specific Characters. Branches and leaves tomentose. Flowers rather large, pubescent, white, and tinned 
with red. 
Description. 
| HE Pinckneya pubes- 
cens is a low tree, di- 
viding itself into nu- 
merous branches, and 
rarely exceeds" the height of twenty -five feet, 
with a stem five or six inches in diameter. Its 
leaves are opposite, four or five inches long, of 
a light-green colour, and downy beneath. The 
flowers, which put forth in May and June, are 
white, with longitudinal rose-coloured stripes, 
and occur in panicles at the extremity of the 
branches. Each flower is accompanied by a 
floral leaf, bordered with rose-colour, near the 
upper edge. The capsules are round, com- 
pressed in the middle, and contain a great 
number of small winged seeds. 
Geography, <$fc. The Pinckneya is indige- 
nous to the southern parts of the United States, 
and particularly abounds on the borders of 
swamps in Georgia and Florida, where the soil is deep and fertile, and where 
the situation is rather cool and shady. In England, the plant is generally kept 
in green-houses or cold-pits ; but it will thrive much better if planted in the free 
ground, and trained against a wall with a southern exposure. It requires a 
shady situation, and is said to thrive best in a mixture of sand and peat. 
Properties and Uses. The wood of the Pinckneya is soft, which, together 
with its diminutive size, renders it unfit for use in the arts. The inner bark is 
extremely bitter, and appears to partake of the febrifugal virtues of the Cinchona 
officinalis; for, the inhabitants of the southern parts of Georgia successfully 
employ it in the cure of the intermittent fevers, which, during the latter part of 
c-immpr nnd in autumn, prevail in that countrv. 
