CANELLE^. 



229. C. Inophyllum Linn. sp. pi. 732. DC. prodr. i. 562. 

 W. and A. i. 103. — (Rheede. iv. t. 38. Rumf. ii. t. 71.) — 

 East Indies. 



Branches terete. Leaves elliptical or obovate, obtuse or retuse. 

 Racemes longer than the leaves, lax, from the axils of the upper leaves, 

 or in a terminal panicle. Sepals and petals 4. Drupe spherical, large. 

 W. and A. — Seeds yield an oil. Resin of the roots supposed by some 

 authors to be the same as the Tacamahaca of the Isle of Bourbon. 



230. C. Calaba Linn. sp. pi. 732. Burnt, ind. 120.— 

 C. apetalum Willd. C. spurium Choisy W. and A. i. 103. — 

 Rheede iv. t. 39. Burm.jl. zeyl. t. 60. — Travancore. 



Young branches square, Leaves cuneate obovate, obtuse or emar- 

 ginate. Racemes lax, about as long as the leaves, axillary near the 

 ends of the branches. Sepals and petals 2. Drupe oblong, small. 

 W. and A. — Produces the true East India Tacamahaca. 



§ ? CANELLE^E. 

 Nat. syst. ed. 2. p. 75. 



CANELLA. 



Sepals 5. Petals 5, somewhat coriaceous, glaucous twist- 

 ed in aestivation. Stamens combined in a tube ; anthers 15, 

 resembling furrows. Stigmas 3. Berry 3-celled, or by abortion 

 sometimes 1-celled ; cells 1-2-seeded. Embryo surrounded by 

 fleshy albumen, curved, with linear cotyledons. 



231. C. alba Murr. syst. 443. Broicne Jam. 215. t. 37. f. 3. 

 Swartz act. linn. lond. i. 96. t. 8. S. and C. ii. t. 66. Woodv. 

 t. 117. N. and E. iii. 327. plant, med. t. 418. — Winterana 

 Canella Linn. sp. pi. 636. — Woods, mountains and rocky hills 

 in the West Indies, and main land of America. (Wild Cin- 

 namon.) 



Tree from 40 to 50 feet high. Inner bark thick, smooth, pale, with 

 a biting aromatic taste, something like cloves, dry and crumbling between 

 the teeth. Leaves scattered, shining, yellowish green, obovate, cuneate 

 at base, dotted when young, opaque when old. Flowers small, clus- 

 tered, purple ; petals concave, erect, thick, deciduous. Berry the size 

 of a pea, fleshy, smooth, blue or black, hot and biting while green. 

 Seeds generally 2. — All parts of the tree when fresh are hot aromatic 

 and pungent. Bark yields by distillation a warm aromatic oil reckoned 

 carminative and stomachic. It is often mixed with oil of cloves, in the 

 West Indies. In this country it is principally employed as an aromatic 

 addition either to tonics or purgatives in debilitated conditions of the 

 digestive organs. Canella bark has also been employed in scurvy. 

 Pereira. 



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