670 ORD. XL. Oleracee. 
LAURUS CINNAMOMUM. | CINNAMON - TREE. 
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SYNONYMA. Cinnamomum. Pharm. Lond. & Edin. Cassia 
cinnamomea. Herm. Lugd. Bat.129.t. 655. Pluk. Almag. 88. 
Cinnamomum foliis latis ovatis frugiferum. Burm. Seyl, 62. t. 27. 
Arbor canellifera Zeylanica, cortice acerrimo seu prestantissimo, 
gui Cinnamomum Officinarum. Breyn. Prod. ii. 17. Cinnamo- 
mum sive Canella Zeylanica. Rauh. Pin. 408, Canella seu Cin- 
namomum vulgare. Bauh. Hist. 1446. The Cinnamon-tree of 
Ceylon. Rati Hist. 1561. LaurusCinnamomum. J4dcq. Americ. 
p. 83. t..1e: Rasse Coronde. eylonarum. 
Class Enneandria.. Ord. Monogynia. L. Gen. Plant. 509. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal. 0. Cor. calycina, 6-partita. Nectarium glan- 
 dulis 3, bisetis, germen cingentibus. Fiiamenta interiora 
glandulifera. Drupa 1-sperma. 
Sp. Ch. L. foliis trinerviis ovato-oblongis: neryis versus apicem 
evaneseentibus, 
THIS valuable and elegant laurel rises above twenty feet in 
height; the trunk extends about six feet in length, and one foot 
and a half in diameter ; it sends off numerous Binnchies: which are 
covered with smooth bark, of a brownish ash colour; the leaves 
stand in opposite pairs upon short footstalks; they are of an ovalish 
oblong shape, obtusely pointed, entire, firm, from three to five 
inches long, of a bright green colour; and“ marked with three 
whitish longitudinal nerves; the common peduncles grow from 
the younger branches, and after dividing, produce the flowers in 
a kind of paniculated umbel. The petals are six, oval, pointed, 
concave, spreading, of a greenish white or yellowish colour, ‘and 
the three outermost are broader than the others; the filaments are 
nine, shorter than the corolla, flattish, erect, standing in ternaries 
and, at the base of each of the three innermost, two small round - 
