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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 January 2013
The Quassia Polygama has long been known in Jamaica, and in fome other islands in the West Indies, not only as an exexcellent timber, but as an useful medicine in putrid fevers and, fluxes. With us, it is called Bitter-wood, and in the Windward Islands, the Bitter Ash. The bark has for some time been prescribed by practitioners here, and exported to England in considerable quantities, for the purposes of the brewers of ale and porter. On these accounts, a fuller description of this plant than has hitherto appeared, will be acceptable to the botanist and the public at large.
page 206 note * London Medical Journal, part III. for 1787.
page 211 note * The drawing alluded to cannot now be found. The figure annexed was taken from a dried specimen in the Herbarium of Dr Wright, who saw the plant, in full flower and fruit, in 1785. Vid. Pl. II.
page 213 note * This loss may be compensated by the abundance of the Cinchona Caribæa seu Jamaicensis, described by Dr Wright in the 67th vol. of Phil. Trans. and which, we are assured, has been found to answer all the purposes of the Cinchona Officinalis.
page 213 note † See Dr Wright's Account of the Medicinal Plants growing in Jamaica, London Medical Journal, part iii. for 1787.