[87] Hist. of Jamaica. London, iii. (1774) 705—also i. 495.
[88] It is so labelled in the Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society, 28th April, 1873.
[89] Pharm. Waarenkunde, 1827-29. i. Taf. 3. fig. 7.
[90] As shown by De Lens’ own specimen kindly given to us by Dr. J. Léon Soubeiran. There are specimens of the same bark about a century old marked Cortex Winteranus verus in Dr. Burges’s cabinet of drugs belonging to the Royal College of Physicians.
[91] Griesbach calls it a low shrubby tree, 10-15 feet high. Mr. N. Wilson, late of the Bath Botanic Garden, Jamaica, has informed me it grows to be 40-45 in height, but that he has seen a specimen 90 feet high. (Letter 22 May 1862.)—D. H.
[92] Loc. cit.
[93] From the Arabic Bádiyán fennel.
[94] Amœnitates, 1712. 880.
[95] Flora Japonica, 1784. 235.
[96] Adansonia, viii. 9; Hist. des Plantes, Magnoliacées, 1868. 154.