t 
80 
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LAURUS CINNAMOMUM." 
CINNAMON.tREE. 
^ 
STNONTMJ, Ciiinamomum 
r 
Pharm, Lond, Eff Edi 
Caffl 
la 
cmnamomea 
Hernu Ltigd. Bat, iig. t. 6^^. Pluh Almag, 88 
Cinnamomiim foliis latis ovatis frugifemm. Burnt, ZeyL 62. t. 27 
Arb 
nellifera Ze;) 
qui Cinnamomum Officiij 
mum five Canella Zeylan 
cortice 
rimo 
feu praiftantiffimo 
.. ^r^j'f/. Pro^. ii. 17. Cinnamo- 
^^//y&. Pin, 408. Canella feu Cin- 
namoraum vulgare. Bauh, Hifl. 
446 
The Cinnamon 
of 
Ceylon. Raii Hift 
56 
i 
p. 59. t. 
Raife Corond 
Laurus Cinnamomum. Jacq, A. 
r 
ZeyL 
Clafs Enneand 
r 
Ord, Monogynia. L, Gen, Plant, 509 
^ 
^ ^ 
Ef. Gen. Ch 
dulis 
5 
CaL 
bifet 
o. 
C 
aly 
\ 
landulifera 
germen 
la, 6 partita. iVd-^^ 
gentibus. Filament. 
interiora 
Drupa i-fperma 
V 
\ 
Cb 
L. foliis trin'erviis 
r 
evanefcentibus. 
obi 
is: nervis verfus apicem 
*■ - * 
THIS valuable and elegant laurel rifes above twenty feet in height 
the trunk extends about fix feet 
diam 
th, and one foot and a half 
fmooth bark, of a' brownifh afh 
fends off niinierous branches, v^hich are covered with 
pairs upon fhort footftalk 
■ ■ 
the leaves ftand in oppofi 
o • 
s 
they are of an ovalifh 
btufely pointed, entire, firm, from three to five inches 
and marked with three whitifh : 
g fhap 
bri 
sht green colour, 
g 
of 
nerves 
the 
longitudinal 
.AC. J. .^?™"^^" peduncles grow from the younger branches, 
T^\/ f r.i ^^ r^' produce the flowers in a kind of paniculated umbel. 
ave, fpreading, of a greenilh 
and the three outermoft are broader than 
The petals are fix, oval, pointed 
white or yellowifh 
the others 
) 
the filament 
7 
ihorter than the 
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flattifh 
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