( 96 ) IX. The Botanical Hijiory of the Canella alba, by Olof Swarfz, M. D. Foreign Member of the Lintiean Society. Read December 7,, 1788. THIS tree, the bark of which has frequently been mifl'aken for the real Cortex Winteranus, has, like many other medi-cinal plants, been hitherto but imperfedlly known to botanifts. Clufius is the firft who has recorded the introduction of this bark from the Weft-Indies, which feems to have been at the be-ginning of the feventeenth century ; as he fays in his Exot. lib. iv. cap. 4, de Canella alba quorundam, *' Ante paucos annos (before 1605) coepit exoticus cortex inferri, cui nomen Canellae albse indi-derunt ;" and it confequently became firft known about 20 years after Winter's return from the Straits of Magellan ; whofe bark we alfo find to have been firft mentioned and defcribed by Clufus, in notis in Garciam, p. 30, under the name of Cortex Winteranus, as a cotnpli-ment to the difcoverer. Caspar Bauhin mentions our bark feveral times in hisP/««*; and calls it, p. 409, Pfeudo-caflia cinnamomea Americana. Canella Peruana. c Canella
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