PHNALS. 161 LAURELS. 
. C, Cassia Blume.—(Cinnamon Cassia. CHINESE CINNAMON.) 
Leaves long-oblong, acute at each end, triple-nerved ; the ribs vanishing 
___ below the point. 
Habitat, China. 
Quality and Uses. As in Cinnamon, less sweet, and more astringent. 
Campnora. Nees. 
Leaves ribbed ; buds scaly.’ Calyx thin. Otherwise as Cinnamomum. 
1. . oficinarum Nees. ‘Laurus Camphora Linneus.—(Campnor TREE.) 
Leaves triple-nerved, shining on the upper side, with a porous gland in the 
__ axil of the veins on the under side. 
Habitat. Island of Formosa, China, Japan. me 
Quality, Acrid, anodyne, vascular excitant, sudorific, poisonous, anaphrodisiac. 
Uses, Typhoid fevers, internal inflammations, measles, scarlatina, spasms, strangury, 
satyriasis, nymphomania, onanism, cholera. 
Nectanpra. Rottboell. 
Leaves yeiny. Fertile stamens 9, with 4-celled subsessile anthers, of which 
the inner only are extrorse. Calyx rotate. 
1. N. Rodi Schomburgk.—(Brsiri or GREENHEART TREE.) ; 
ves nearly opposite, oblong-elliptical, shortly acuminate, coriaceous, 
smooth, shining and obscurely netted on the upper side ; panicles few- 
flowered, axillary, much shorter than the leaves, finely downy ; anthers 
all thick, oblong, without glands. Bentham. 
Habitat. Guiana. 
Quality. Powerfully tonic and febrifugal. cae : 
Uses. “Yields the alkaloid Beebeerine, of great value in intermittents. 
Sassarras. Nees. 
Leaves veiny. Anthers all introrse, 4-celled. Fertile stamens 9. 
1. 8. officinale Nees. Laurus Sassafras Linnzus.—(SAssaFRas TREE.) 
Leaves thin, oblong, entire or 2-3-lobed. 
Habitat. United States. 
ity. Wood and bark stimulant, sudorifie, subacrid. 
Tees, Rheumatism, venereal diseases. 
Laurus. Linneus. 
Leaves veiny. Anthers all introrse, 9.celled, Fertile stamens 12. 
1. L nobilis Linneeus.—(Sweet Bay.) 
ves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 
ae toothed, purple-ribbed, with a hairy pore a 
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