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Laurus Cassra. Cassia, or BASTARD 
CINNAMON. 
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Clafs and Order. 
EnNWEANDRIA MONOGYNIAs 
Generic Charaéfer. 
Cal. 0. Cor. calycina, 6-partita. Neéarium glandulis tribus, 
, bifetis, germen cingentibus.. 4/am, interiora glandulifera, Drupa 
1-{perma. 
Specific Charaéier and Synonyms. 
LAURUS Cofia; foliis trinerviis ovato-lanceolatis acutis : ju- 
nioribus coloratis, pedunculis trichotome paniculatis di- 
varicatiflimis. 
LAURUS Goffa ; foliis triplinerviis lanceolatis. Sp. Pl. 528. 
Willd. 2. p..477- Pevfoon Syn. 1. p. 448. Burm. Ind. gr. 
LAURUS Caffa; paniculis laxis fublateralibus, Lom. Enc. 3. 
p. 441. ill, t. 321. f. 2. 
LAURUS Camella. Mill. Diét. n. 12. 
CINNAMOMUM perpetuo florens, folio tenuiore acuto. 
Burm. Zeyl. 63. t. 28. 
CASSIA lignea. Blackw. t. 391. (fig. ex Hort. Malab. mutuata). 
CASSIA malabarica. Herm. Lugdb. 130. : 
CASSIA cinnamomea myrrhe odore, folio trinervi fubtus cefio, 
Pluk. Alm. 8g. : 
en AMOMUM feu Canella malabarica f. javanenfis, Baub, 
in. 40Q- Sg . 
CARUA. Hort. Malab. 1. p. 107. #. §9- 
_We believe it may ftill be confidered as in fome degree a 
difputed point, whether the Caffia and Cinnamon barks of the 
fhops are not the produé of the fame {pecies ; and in Rees’s 
New Cyclopedia, the lateft publication on the fubjeét, a doubt 
is expreffed whether the Lauaus Ginnamomum and Cafia are not 
