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G[Rir?ITH], R. E. (55) 
SIMJff.UBA. JSmer. Jour. Phnm, 8: ca-22. 1835. 
The first account of Siaaruba is that some of the 
"bark was sent to Europe in 1713 by the Count of Porchartrain, 
as an article used "by the natives with signal, success in the ^iire 
of diseases of the "bowels. In 1741 little additional in- 
formation appeo-rs to have "been acquired, as Geoffrey (50) 
srys: "est cortex radicis arhoris ignotae in Q^iiana nascentis, 
et ab incolis simaruha nuncupatae." Jussieu, however, used 
it with "benefit in 1718 in an epidemic dysentery prevrlcnt 
in Poris, 
In 1753 Linnaeus, who had not yet seen spocimens 
of the tree, ascri"bod it to a species of Pist acia, or 
Tcr e"binthus major botuj.ao corticc fructu t ri?:'A' ru lari . In 
1756 Browne (27) descri'bed a tere'binthus, or turpentine tree, 
the roots of which he was of opinion furnished the Siraaru"ba 
"bark. 
In 1763 Linnaeus had changed hif( opinion and stated 
that the bark was f\xrnished 'oy the 3ur sera. g.L' t Lm i f c r a , referring 
to the Pist acia of former editions and to BroT/ne and Sloane, 
and in his apiX'^ndix also to Tore'cint hus nm cricana polyphylla 
and to the Q rx\i^ elemi tree of~Catesby, Jo.cquin, on a visit to 
the Ucst Indies some years lo.ter, found that the roots of this 
Bur sera f^U'nishcd a bark much different from Simaruba. 
In 1773 Wright, in J.-jnaicr,, found that it was derived 
from a species of Quasr^ia av'd F.c;nt specimens of fruit and 
root bark to Hope of "Idlnbitr A'h and also the next year to 
Po therein of London, The latter transmitted them to Linnaeus, 
vv;ho acknowledged the correctness of Ti7right' s observations by 
adopting this ncj-,o in the suppleracnt to his Systema Yegctabilium . 
The sync2\"'Tny of this species appears to be as follows: 
" Q,uassia sirp. ru.ba Lin. Supplem. 334; Willd, Spec, ii. 558. 
Poiret. Lie-,. i:<nt,hod. vi. 35. Lamarck. Illustrat. t. 343, 
f. 2, T7oodvii::-D. IJerl. Bot. ii. p. 211, t. 76, Simarouba . 
Aablot, Act. Par--, r.;. 177C. Slma roab ?; ai:i3ra .Aubl. G-uian. ii, 
859, t. 331, 532: _S, ofiic^ noil s. Lc^:andolle. Syst. ^. 
Guyanensia , Hi chard, 31 em. Hist. i^rt. ii. 785, etc." 
GRIPPO, N. (57) 
LIS22I PEK COIvBATTEPJ: LE MALATTIE LELLE PIALTTE l\fEL PERIODO 
PRIMAYIRILS. Picentinc 14(3-4): 53-55, 1925. 
[Abstract in Rev, Appl. Ent. (A)l3: 322. 1925.] 
i/IyzAis percjica e and M, amygdali infesting the peach 
req.uire a solution of carbolic tobacco extract or a de- 
coction of quassia (4 or 5 percent) for their control. 
