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lerce : ana this also is the case with the buds of the ( 'nssiu ma- 

 labarica, which in Malabar are called Cubeba. The accounts of 

 a Cubeba, produced by a species of Piper, seem to have ren- 

 dered Loureiro's report suspected by the compiler of the Ency- 

 clopedie (Supp. iii. 318.), but without reason. Cabal*, in the 

 native language of India, signifies a kind of roast, like that of 

 the heroes in Homer : 



Now any spice suited for garnishing such roasts, by sticking it 

 between the rows of minute bits (pio-TvXXov) of meat, transfixed in 

 a row by the wooden skewer (o£gXo?) on which they are roasted, is 

 called a Cabab or Cubeba; and the sharp pedicels of both the 

 Cassias, as well as of the Piper, serve for this purpose. 



The younger Burman (Fl. Ind. 91. ), following Linnams, called 

 the Cassia malabarica the Lauras Cassia, with the same syno- 

 nyma as in the Flora Zeylanica ; but he introduced a new species, 

 the Lauras Malubatram, composed of the Katou Karua (llort. 

 Mai. v. /. 53.), which is undoubtedly the same with his father's 

 plant (Thes. Zeyl. t. 28.), which he quotes for the Lauras Cassia. 

 He joins to the Katou Karua, the Siudoc of Rumphius (Hub. 

 Amb. ii. 69.), which may indeed be the same plant, there being 

 no figure, and a description so imperfect that it may be referred 

 to almost any of the species, which nearly resemble the Cinna- 

 mon. Willdenow abandons this Malabathrum, there not bein<£ 

 the slightest indication in either Rheede or Rumphius of its 

 leaves possessing the qualities of the drug ; and he makes the 

 Katou Carua with five stamens, and a flower divided into five, a 

 mere variety of the Laurus Cinnamomum. 



In that valuable collection the Encyclopedic Methodique (iii. 

 433.) we have the synonyma of the Laurus Cinnamomum pro- 

 perly enough given. To these, given by Linnaeus to the Laurus 



Cassia, 



