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CANELLACE.E 



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stripped from the wood, the bark is gently beaten with a stick, 

 removes the saberoiis la.v^r Tiir o f,iT.fV,o^ i^a«f;..rv +1ia -mmnlTi. 



wlHch removes the saberoiis layer. By a further beating, the remain- 

 wfh f f ■^+t^^''^^^^^ ^^? having been peeled off and dried, is exported 



without further preparation.' 



Description— Canella bark occurs in the form of quills, more or 

 iess crooked and irregular, or in channelled pieces from 2 or 3 up to 6, 



}Cf^?'^ '?'^.f. f ^^""S^^' i ^^ "^ch to 1 or 2 inches in width, and a 

 nne or two m thickness. The suberous layer which here and there has 

 escaped removal is silverv otpv and dotted with minute lichens, 



consists of inner cellular layers 

 or light orange-brown tint, often a 



tjsecipea removal is silve 

 Commonly, the external 



little 

 scars. 



^phlceum) 



grey, 

 surface 



ijuca.(im) or a briglit buff, or light orange-brown tint, often a 



wnnkled transversely, and dotted (but not always) with round 



ine inner surface i« wl^^fic-u ^„ „: „„il ;i ^uiipr 



smnnk ^^^^//^^^^r surface is whitish or cinnamon-coloured, eithei 

 thT WV ''''^\ ^Y'^. longitudinal stri^. Some parcels of canella sho^v 



the bark much bruised °and 

 mentioned process of beating. 



itudinally fissured by the above- 



e bark hrea-kft t,ra-n?;verselv with ii 



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The bark breaks transversely 



short rrr^r;, ir. '^^^i^mg me bark breaks transversely witn a 

 speL^em ft' ^^^^^^l.^^^ch distinctly shows the three, or in uncoated 

 ^d SoHn. r' '"' ^?^ ^^y^'^' *1^^^ of th^ liber being the largest, 

 whicnietn? ^ ^^^1^1'^ted rays or bundles into the middle layer, 

 JeUo y colour ''""'''^^' ^^'S^ ^^^ unevenly scattered oil-cells of a 



agreeable 



- "o.^v.c.^xc ^iiiuamon-iiiie odour, and a I 

 J^ven the corky coat is somewhat aromatic. 



» ^ 



acrid taste.^ 



Microsc,^ ^^^ 



very numerous layerrof laroe c 

 undulated rather than rectangular 



The spongy suberous coat consists of 



cells with thin walls, showing au 



outline. The next small zone is 



row, 



constituted nf ..1 t ^'^^^^ng^lar outline. The next small zc 

 o^f^mit^&^^^^^^ f 1« .- a single, double, or triple 



times (in'unBpl^ not very extensive groups. This tissue is some- 

 boundary between tr''^r\^ conti^uoas envelope, marking the 

 cellular kyer but .' ' ?'^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ the middle portion of the 

 takes place when .^f'''''?!?^'^^ ^^ *l^i« thick- walled tissue often 

 suberous layer ^ ^''''' ^^ ^^ ^^'^ enveloped and separated by the 



very larleTeHs filWl^wf^'^^i?'' "^'^^^^^ ^ ^^^'^'ow tissue with numerous 

 chief pof tion of fe Zh) ^'f T "'^^"*^^1 ^^1- The liber forming the 

 which on traverse seTtrn f '^^ ^""^^'^^ ^^'"^ prosenchymatous cells 

 cartilaginous appeamnco ^""'"^JT^^ ^>a^>cls of a peculiar horny. or 



guished as /fo.3S r S ""^ ""^'"^ '^"'^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^ave been distm- 

 .h^.„ ^.T r* ^2/ «^oe>- (Hornhast of Havtvo^ ^™^„:^_n 3 m.^ i;i... fibres 



show reti^ulSmar'ki^'r^f. ^^' ^^^'"^^^ ^^^ters).^ The liber-fibre, 

 deposits on their cell t.!!. t^I % Peculiar character of the secondary 

 and smaller: the mednU.,; ^^l-cells in the liber are less numerous 



of the crv^^itnli;,.. 7 c. 7 ^^^^ ^^'^ ^Ot verv ah^^in..^ „r,7ac« nn account 



ot the crystalline tufts of oxalate nf T-^ "'^V''''' ""^'?' ""1 ' 

 This crystalline oxalate rpto^. • / calcium deposited in the 

 appuii-ance. ' '^^^'^' ^^i^* obstinately, and has a striking dark 



eiy obvious unless on account 

 cium dfiDosifpi^ in the latt«r 



Bahamas. Th; i^ond i ," "^"'^^^^ «f the 

 to W uot aIways"Te;l^a'!!!g -««5d seem 



to be absolutely identical with canella alba, 



still retains its proper fragrance afterneariy 



two centuries. — F. A. F^ „ -,. 



' I'irst figured and described 1 



^^^^^.—Aaniee^enwfjen op het. . i ■ t/^"^ 

 <itr Pkarnu A'eerlundka, 1854-5ft 467. 



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