ENNEANDRIA. 

 CLASS IX. 



j^ NINE STAMINA. 



'^ This Class has three Orders. 



ORDER 1. 



No British Plant of this Order, 



CINNAMON. This valuable tree grows to moxogy. 

 more than twenty feet in height j the trunk extends ^^'^' 

 about six feet, and is one foot and a half in diameter 3 one Pistil- 

 it sends off numerous branches, which are covered 

 with a smooth bark, of a brownish ash colour} the 

 leaves, which are a bright green, stand in opposite 

 pairs upon short foot-stalks 3 somewhat of an oval 

 shape obtusely pointed, entire, firm; from tliree 

 I to five inches long, marked with three longitudinal 

 » nerves of a lighter colour. The blossom contains 

 ^ one pistillum and nine stamina shorter than the 

 \ corolla, and consists of six petals of a greenish white 

 or yellowish colour 3 tlie fruit is a pulpy perlcar- 

 pium resembling a small olive, of a deep blue colour, 

 inserted in the corolla, and containing an oblong 

 ^nut. 



^ The true Cinnamon-tree is a native of Ceylon, 

 "•^ where, according to Ray, it grows as common in 

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