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ere(fl:, (landing in ternaries, and, at the bafe of each of the three 
innermoft, two fmall round glands are placed ; the anthers are 
double, and unite over the top of the filament ; the germen is oblong. 
the ftyle fimple, of the length of the ftamina, and the ftigma is 
deprefled and triangular : the fruit is a pulpy pericarpium, refembling 
a fmallolive of a deep blue colour inferted in the corolla, and con- 
taining an oblong nut. 
The true Cinnamon-tree is a native of Ceylon, where, according 
to Ray, it grows as common in the woods and hedges as the hazel 
with us, and is ufed by the Ceylonefe for fuel and other domeftic 
purpofes. Its cultivation was firft attempted in this country about 
the year 1768 by Mr. Philip Miller, who obferves " that the Cinnamon 
and Camphire-trees are very near akin," and that if the berries of 
thefe trees were procured from the places of their growth, and planted 
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in tubs of earth, the plants might be more eafily reared than by layers, 
which require two years or more before they take root. We wifh, 
however, to caution thofe who make the trial, to plant this fruit im- 
mediately upon being obtained from the tree ; for Jacquin remarks, 
" Cseterum ad fationem tranfportari femina nequeunt, quum paucos 
intra dies nuclei corrumpantur, atque effoeti evadunt."* Ray feems 
to think that the CafTia cinnamomea of Herman, the CafTia lignea, 
and the Caffia fifhula of the ancient Greek writers, were the fame, 
or varieties of the fame fpecies of plant.'' But an inquiry of more 
importance is, whether the Cinnamon of Ceylon is of the fame 
fpecies as that growing in Malabar, Sumatra, &c. differing only 
through the influence of the foil and climate in which it grows, or 
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Americ. At Ceylon, " it is particularly owing to a certain kind of 
^hich, from their feedinor on the fruit of the Cinnamon-tree, they call 
A. Seba Ph. Tranf. 
CinyiamQn- eaters^ that thefc trees grow fo plentifully in this ifland." A. 
vol. 36. p. 105. : 
^ It is neceffary to obferve, that the ancient fignification of thefe names is very dif- 
ferent from the modern. The younger branches of the tree, with their bark covering 
them, were called by the Greek writers K/vv(;t/xaj//.oy Cinnamomum, and fometimes 
Caffi 
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proc^efs 
came tuDiiiar, tnis Daric was aenommatea nxaix o-v-j/yl 
or caffia fiftula. 
ftom prevails at this day. S 
Cinnamon-tree by Dr. Watfon, Phil. Tranf vol. 47 
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