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Mr. M. Moss, in his Narrative and Commercial Report — 
of an Exploration of the West River to Nan ning fu, 1881, 
states that Cassia is only grown in Lo ting chou [W. Kuang 
tung] and in the districts surrounding the town of Tai wu, 
the produce being respectively known in the trade by the 
name of Lo ting and Tai wu Cassia. [ Tai wu is probably 
the Fe KS of Chinese maps, S.E. of Sin chou fa in Kuang si]. 
In 1882 Mr. Cu. Forp, Superintendent of the Botan., etc. 
Department, Hong kong, visited the Chinese districts where 
Cassia bark is produced, and published a very valuable article 
on the results of his investigations. Before Forp decided 
the question on the botanical origin of the Chinese Cinnamon 
or Cassia lignea, it was customary to refer the Chinese drug 
to Cinnamomum Cassia, first described by Blume in 1825, 
from a plant cultivated in Java [not to be confounded with 
C. Zeylanicum, or Laurus Cinnamomum, L., from Ceylon, 
known in Europe from an early period]. Forp proved by 
Personal observation that the plant yielding the Chinese 
Cassia bark was indeed the plant described by Blume. He 
found that there are three chief districts in which it is 
Produced, wiz. Tai wu [v. supra], Lo ting and Luk po 
[not found on the map, but according to the geographical 
Position given by Forp it lies N.E. of Lo ting]. Forp 
describes the peeling of the bark by the Chinese. By 
distillation the leaves afford Cassia oil. What is called Cassia 
buds are the immature fruits. 
Step, Gcon., 139 :—Cinnamomum Cassia (this is ¢. 
dulce, Nees ). Japonice: nikkei; sinice: HE. E China 
introducta, hine ac inde colitur in usum medieum.—Lbrd., 
140:—Cinnamomum Maruba. Japonice: maruba nikkei. 
E China introductum, in usum medicum cultum. [This seems 
to be C, sericeum, Stes, See Francu. & Sav., Znum., 1, 411. ] 
Kwa wi, 97:—Nikkei. Sinice: #3 or [ the first 
