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Tas. 6120. 
CINNAMODENDRON corticosvum. 
Native of the West Inhes. 
Nat. Ord. CANELLACER. 
Genus CinnamMopENDRON, Endl. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 121). 
CINNAMODENDRON corticosum ; glabcrrimum, foliis anguste elliptico-v. obovato- 
oblongis -lanceolatisve sepe gibbis v. inequilateris obtusis v. subacutis 
marginibus recurvis basi rotundatis acutisve, cymis parvis axillaribus, 
sepalis 5 ovato-oblongis apice recurvis rotundatis, petalis 4-5 erectis 
oblongis, antheris 16-20. 
CINNAMODENDRON corticosum, Miers Contrib. to Bot,, vol. i. p. 121, t. 24; 
Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 109. 
A well known West Indian tree, as the Mountain Cin- 
namon of Jamaica, or Canella bark of that islana and St. 
Thomas, but not the true Brazilian plant of that name, which 
is its solitary congener, the C. awil/are of Endlicher. These 
two very distinct trees were indeed long confounded together, 
and their bark is still imported under the same name of 
Canella, and employed Jargely as an aromatic stimulant to 
purgatives and tonics, being ‘reputed to be well adapted for 
debilitated stomachs. The Caribs (ancient natives of the 
Antilles) and the negroes of the present day employ it is a 
condiment. As an aromatic, Pereira says that it ranks 
between cinnamon and cloves. Mr. Hanbury informs me 
that the bark was exported during the last century as 
“Winter’s bark” and is still found in the market ; as also that 
it is probably the “ Wild Cinnamon tree of Sloane, commonly 
but falsely called Cortex Winteranus,” though the tree that he 
figures Phil. Trans. xvii. 465, (1693) is certainly Canella alba. 
It is a local plant growing in Jamaica only in mountain 
Mets of the parishes of St. Thomas in the Vale and St. 
ohn. 
In the following description I have followed the view of 
the nature of the outer floral whorls adopted in the Genera 
Plantarum, though more disposed to regard the outermost 
SEPTEMBER, 1874, 
