THE 
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
JUNE, 1847. 
ART. XXV. — DEIMYS CHILENSIS. De Candolle. The Winter's 
Bark of Chili. 
By Joseph Carson, M. D. 
The genus Drimys belongs to the natural family of Mag- 
noli ace ae, sub-order Winteracese ; and to Polyandria, 
Polygynia of the Sexual System. The name Drimys 
was given to the genus by Foster, and has been adopted 
by De Candolle after Lamarck. 
Generic Character. Carpels congested, baccate, many- 
seeded ; filaments thickest at the apex ; cells of the anthers 
separate. — De Candolle. 
The essential characters consist in a calyx splitting 
unequally, the numerous petals, club-shaped stamens, 
with terminal two-lobed anthers, no style, berries supe - 
rior and aggregate, and seeds several in a double row. 
Specific Characters. Leaves oblong, obovate, glau- 
cous beneath ; peduncles crowded, one-flowered or arising 
from a common peduncle j petals six to nine, oblong sub- 
obtuse. Berries oval, sub-compressed, obtuse. De Can- 
dolle, Prodrom, vol 1, p. 78. 
Dr. Lindley, in his Medical Flora, has confounded this 
plant with J; wo other species — the D. winteri and D.grana- 
tensis ; the former found in the neighborhood of the straits 
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