POWDERED VEGETABLE DRUGS 



208. (Fig. 200.) WINTERA. Winter's Bark. 

 Fl. ex. 60. 



Winter's Zimmt, G. Ecorce de Winter, Fr. 



The bark of Drimys Winteri Frerster, Magnoliacese. 



Cinnamon brown. 



Aromatic, camphoraceous. 



Very pungent, somewhat bitter. 



Outer bark cells filled with reddish brown coloring matter. Inner 

 bark parenchyma mostly empty; numerous larger cells filled with a 

 bright yellow resin. Sclerenchyma cells much as in coto and paracoto, 

 pores large, some filled with brown granular matter. 



Confused with and substituted for coto, paracoto and canella. 



