Georgia Bark, the common name of Pincl-neya Pubens, one of the handsomest of our native shrubs. It grows in bogs and along the banks of streams from South Carolina to Florida, and sometimes attains the height of 20 ft., though, as it throws up many stems from the same"root, it retains a shrub-like form. It has the general botanical characters of the rubiaceae, to which family it belongs. The leaves are large, oval, acute, and downy on the under surface, as are the flower clusters which are borne at the ends of the branches; these consist of several live-flowered fascicles of purplish-spotted flowers, with a tube nearly an inch long and a reflexed limb; the calyx is short and flve-lobed, one of the lobes being expanded into a large, ovate, rose-colored leaf, which is more showy than the flower itself. The plant is closely related to cinchona, and is one of the many that have been proposed as substitutes for Peruvian bark. From the reports of physicians living in the states where it grows, it appears to have decided anti-periodic properties, though slower in its action than quinia. As an ornamental plant it is deserving of the attention of those who live in a climate where the winters are mild; in England it is sufficiently valued to be cultivated as a wall plant.

The genus was named by Michaux in honor of Gen. Charles C. Pinckney.