WINTERA AROMATIGA. 
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for several hours, when laborious respiration, followed by torpor, 
Irembliugs, coma, and convulsions, usually precede the spasms or 
tetanus with which it extinguishes life. Its effects upon man are 
nearly the same, and the /?os/-7«orfem examination, both of men and 
animals, shews that it acts immediately on the nervous system. 
WINTERA AROMATICA. 
Winters Bark Tree.* 
C7«ss PoLYANDRiA.— Oz-cfer Tetragynia. 
Nat. Old. OLERACEffi, Linn. MAGNOHACEiE, Jussk 
Gen. Char. Calyx three-lobed. Petals six fo twelve. Ger- 
mens club-shaped. Style none. Berries four to eig-ht, ob- 
ovate. 
Spec. Char. Peduncles aggregate, terminal. Pistils four. 
This tree is a native of the Straits of Magellan and Terra del 
Fuego, growing in the vallies which are exposed to the sun. It was 
first discovered by Captain John Winter, who accompanied Sir 
Francis Drake in the expedition destined for the South Seas in the 
year 1577. During the time Captain Winter's ship remained in the 
Straits, in consequence of stress of weather, his ship's crew made 
use of the bark as spice. On his return to England, he brought 
specimens of the bark with him, which Clusius named, in honour of 
the discover. Cortex Winteranus. 
The Wintera Aroraatica is a very large evergreen tree, rising to 
the height of fifty or more feet; the bark covering the trunk and 
older branches is greyish and wrinkled, on the younger branches green 
and smooth ; the leaves are elliptical, obtuse, smooth, entire, two 
inches in length, of a shining green on the upper surface, paler 
* Fig, a, a petal, b. The stamens, c. The calyx. 
