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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 same as 

 the cascarilla or elutheria of the shops :" it seems therefore probable 

 that different species of clutia may produce bark of the same, or of 

 similar qualities to that of cascarilla, as we find several instances in 

 which the same drug is produced by various species of plants. 



That the tree here called by Dr. Wright croton does not belong to 

 this genus, but it is evidently a clutia, appears by the dioicous speci- 

 mens of it sent by him to the President of the Royal Society ; a part 

 of which has the male flowers carefully preserved, so that the Ja- 

 maica and Bahama Cascarilla may be compared together. 



The Clutia Eluteria seems to have been first introduced into* 

 Britain by Mr. P. Miller ; but it is not to be found in the King's 

 garden at Kew, nor have we seen it cultivated any where near the 

 metropolis. 



This small tree grows several feet in height, and sends of nume- 

 rous branches, especially towards the top : the bark, which cover? 

 the branches is brown and smooth, but that of the trunk is exter- 

 nally more whije and rough: the leaves are entire, lanceolate, 

 somewhat cordate, and elongated towards the apex, which is 

 blunt, on the upper side of a bright green, on the under side paler, 

 and placed alternately upon long footstalks. Both the male ami 

 female flowers stand in spikes, and are composed of a calyx divid- 

 ed 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, roughs 

 marked with six furrows, and divided into three cells, containing a 

 solitary oval shining seed. 



Upon this decision of Woodville, Turton has since introduced 

 the cascarilla as a clutia, or cluytia, as he writes it, into his recent 

 edition of Linnaeus, and the same authority has been bowed to by 

 most botanists. Wildenow*, however, has revived the claim of the 

 croton to this species, and the London college, in their late Phar- 

 macopoeia, have adopted this last arrangement. The question* 



Spec Plat. iv. SSI, 



