REMARKS ON LAURUS CASSIA, 341 
of the plant as represented in the figure; for, if any depen- 
dence is to be placed on the description, it is impossible to 
admit it into the genus. On this, however, we cannot place 
much reliance, as it was not the practice a century ago, when 
a description was written, to examine the structure of flowers 
with the same care that is now bestowed. Should it be ob- 
= jected that the species I quote as the C. perpetuo florens is 
clothed with yellowish pubescence, which is not mentioned by 
Burman, then I possess another from the same country 
(Ceylon), perfectly glabrous, and agreeing in the form of its 
. leaves, but differing in having more numerous and smaller 
flowers, which may be substituted; and which I do not con- 
sider, any more than the other, as a variety of the genuine 
. cinnamon-tree. | | 
; The Malabar plant Carua (Hort. Mal. I. tab. 57), on the 
. other hand, I should pronounce to be a very passable figure 
f a plant in my herbarium, named by Nees himself, Cinna- 
momum iners; but, whether or not I am right in the species 
to which I have referred it, I feel no hesitation in giving it as 
my opinion that it is not referrible to any form of the C. 
&eylanicum. Neither can I agree with him in believing the 
plant figured under the name of Laurus Cassia in the Botani- 
cal Magazine, No. 1636, is referrible to the Ceylon species, 
but is I think very like the Malabar one, the only species of 
the genus to which the name Cassia should be applied, if that 
name is still to be retained in botanical nomenclature, as being 
the only one of the three associated species known to pro- 
. duce that drug. Another plate of the Botanical Magazine, 
~ (Laurus Cinnamomum, No. 2028,) I also refer here, and feel 
greatly at a loss to account for its introduction into that work 
|. Undera different name from the preceding. The plant which 
Nees formerly considered the Laurus Cassia, but now calls 
~ Cinnamomum aromaticum, from China, is a closely allied 
. Species but is distinct, and furnishes much of the bark 
Sold in the European markets under the name of Cassia; 
though it has nothing whatever to do with the Laurus Cassia 
of Linnzeus, which, from the preceding history appears strictly — 
