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while in their opinion it agrees with Cinchona in habit. Hence they 

 think it is a genus intermediate between Cinchona and Mussanda. 



The name Georgia bark, imposed on this tree, is derived from 

 the circumstance of its medicinal employmentby the Georgians, and 

 it is said successfully, in intermittent fever. It is the inner bark which 

 is possessed of bitter and febrifuge virtues, and is used in decoction. 

 A more particular account of the medicinal virtues of this native 

 bark, which promises to be the best indigenous substitute for the 

 Peruvian medicine, will be given in the third volume of my "Vege- 

 table Materia Medica of the United States," which will be published 

 in a short time. 



The drawing was made from fine specimens, obtained from the 

 garden of Messrs. Landreth, near this city, where it flowered in 

 great perfection this summer. It is there a bushy shrub, about eight 

 feet high, and grows luxuriantly, though in an open border. 



The table represents a flowering specimen, culled in July, of its 

 natural size. 



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