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DRIMYS WINTERI. 
Other navigators upon visiting the Straits noticed the 
tree, but nothing definite was known of its botany, until, in 
1691, a Mr. George Handasyd, upon his return, presented 
some specimens to Sir Hans Sloane, who gave a description 
and figure in the Philosophical Transactions. But it ap- 
pears that the flowers and fruit were wanting, and a syste- 
matic location was impossible, until, in 1768,Capt. Wallis, 
of the Dolphin, brought some perfect specimens, which 
came into the hands of Dr. Solander, who, from these and 
his observations when staying at Terra del Fuego, drew 
up his description. 
" Winter's Bark Tree ( Winterana aromatica) is one of the 
largest forest trees upon Terra del Fuego; it often rises to 
the height of fifty feet. Its outward bark is on the trunk 
gray, and very little wrinkled ; on the branches quite 
smooth and green. 
" The branches do not spread horizontally, but bend 
upwards, and form an elegant head of an oval shape. 
"The leaves come out without order, of an oval, elliptic 
shape, quite entire, obtuse, flat, smooth, shining, of a thick 
leathery substance, evergreen ; on the upper side of a lively 
deep green colour, and of a pale bluish colour underneath, 
without any nerves, and their veins scarcely visible ; they 
are sometimes narrower near the footstalks, and there their 
margins are bent downwards. 
"In general the leaves are from three to four inches long, 
and between one and two broad ; they have very short 
footstalks, seldom half an inch long, which are smooth, con- 
cave on the npperside, and convex underneath. From the 
scars of the old footstalks the branches are often tubercu- 
iated. 
" The peduncles or footstalks for the flowers, come out of 
the axillae foliorum, near the extremity of the branches; 
they are flat, of a pale colour, twice or three times shorter 
than the leaves, now and then support only one flower, but 
