THE 
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY 
JULY, 1 852. 
ON ERYTHROPHLEUM JUDICIALE, (THE SASSY BARK TREE OF 
CAPE PALM AS.) 
By William Procter, Jr. 
The first paper on this subject, published at page 301, vol. xxiii- 
of this Journal, was necessarily imperfect in its botanical relations, 
owing to the flowers of the plant not being among the specimens 
on which the account was based, the tree being in fruit at the 
time they were collected. Since then I have received from Dr. 
McGill, through Moses Sheppard, Esq., of Baltimore, several very 
perfect specimens of the inflorescence of the Sassy bark tree, pre- 
served in diluted alcohol, by which its characters have been studied, 
and are presented in the following essay. 
After a careful examination of accessible works on the botany 
of Western Africa, no further accounts of the Sassy tree or allied 
trees have been found, than those mentioned in the first essay. 
Neither Endlicher, Lindley, nor Don, who give the generic charac- 
ters of Erythrophleum, (Afz.) mention any species, or give the 
specific characters of any of them. 
The Red water tree of Sierra Leone, first noticed by Winterbot- 
tom in his account of that colony, (vol. i. p. 129,) was afterwards 
noticed by Professor Afzelius, who resided several years in that 
region, and was erected into a new genus Erythrophleum* distinct 
* From the red color of the bark. 
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