138 A COMPENDIUM OF 
to view many resin cells of an orange yellow. 
Odor aromatic, and reminds one of cinnamon; 
taste aromatic, biting and slightly bitter. Canella 
contains starch, resin, albumen, mucilage, vola- 
tile otl and eugenic acid. The medical proper- 
ties are tonic, and carminative; and in combina- 
tion with aloes, emmenangogue. Pulvis aloes et 
canella (hiera picra) was once a very popular 
mixture and enters into combination with rhu- 
barb to make the officinal vinum rhei, (wine of 
rhubarb). 
Cascarilla, Cascarilla, Croton Eleteria. —Nat- 
ural order, Euphorbiacee. This particular 
species is a small shrub or tree found growing in 
Jamaica and other West India Islands. The 
height is rarely over six feet and it has many 
angular branches and twigs which are covered 
With leaflets ovate in shape with obtuse points; 
their external surface is of a handsome green 
color, whilst the under surface is of a silvery 
gray and pubescent; flowers streaked with yel- 
low, and infloresce in terminal spikes. The 
organs of reproduction are in separate flowers 
and often on different trees (moncecious); the 
corolla has five petals; calyx cylindrical in shape 
and five cleft or toothed, filaments united, 
Stamens from 10 to'15 in number. The cas- 
_ ¢arilla as it occurs in commerce is in quills or 
_ curved pieces of various lengths, fissured and of 
a gray colorexternally, and about -/, of an inch (2 
millimeters) thick, having some corky layers re- 
maining on the bark, the inner surface is smooth 
and somewhat lighter in color; when broken 
the fracture is short; under alens of some power, 
the bark shows a finely striated structure, with 2 
