WINTERANIA, in botany, a genus of the monogynia order, belonging to the dodecandria class of plants; for the characters of which, see the BOTANY Table. There is but one species, the canella; see Plate CCLXXXVI. It grows usually about 20 feet high, and eight or ten inches in thickness, in the thick woods of most of the Bahama islands. The leaves are narrow at the stalk, growing wider at their ends, which are broad and rounding, having a middle rib only; they are very smooth, and of a light shining green. In May and June the flowers, which are pentapetalous, come forth in clusters at the ends of the branches: they are red, and very fragrant, and are succeeded by round berries, of the size of large peas, green, and when ripe (which is in February) purple, containing three shining black seeds, flat on one side, otherwise not unlike in shape to a kidney-bean: these seeds in the berry are enveloped in a slimy mucilage. The whole plant is very aromatic, the bark particularly, being more used in distilling, and in greater esteem, in the more northern parts of the world than in England. This bark is that which is commonly known in the shops by the name of Winter's bark; tho' truly not the right, as Sir Hans Sloane has judiciously informed us. See the following article.