CN eee erne: 
LAURUS CINNAMOMUM. ORD. XL. Oleracee. 671 
glands are placed ; the antherz are double, and unite over the 
top of the filament; the germen is oblong, the style simple, of the 
length of the stamina, and the stigma is depressed and triangular: 
the fruit is a pulpy pericarpium, 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 the woods and hedges as the hazel 
with us, and is used by the Ceylonese for fuel and other domestic 
purposes. Its cultivation was first attempted in this country about 
the year 1768 by Mr. Philip Miller, who observes, “ that the 
Cinnamon and Camphire trees are very near akin,” and that if the 
berries of these trees were procured from the places of their 
growth, and planted in tubs of earth, the plants might be more 
easily reared than by layers, which require two years or more 
before they take root. We wish, however, to ene those who 
make the trial, to plant this fruit immediately u 
from the tree, for Jacquin remarks, “ careoa ad sationem 
transportari semina nequeunt, quum paucos intra dies nuclei cor- 
rumpantur, atque effoeti evadunt.”* Ray seems to think that the 
Cassia cinnamomea of Herman, the Cassia lignea, and the Cassia 
fistula of the ancient Greek writers, were the same, or varieties of 
the same species of plant.’ But an inquiry of more importance is, 
whether the Cinnamon of Ceylon is of the same species as that. 
At Ceylon, “ it is particularly owing to @ certain kind. 
of Wild Doves, which, from their feeding on the fruit of the Cinnamon-tree, they, 
call Cinnamon-eaters, aes poe trees grow so plentifully in this island.’ A Seba. 
* Jacquin’s Americ. 
Ph. Trans. vol. 36. p. 1 
® It is necessary to —- that the ancient signification of these names is very 
different from the modern. The younger branches of the tree, with their bark 
covering them, were called by the Greek writers x»ayuo Cinnamomum, and 
sometimes EuAcxacia, or Cassia lignea; but when they were divested of ne bark. 
which by its being dried became tubular, this bark was denominated zac ie ovSayd, 
or cassia fistula,—But as in process of time the wood of this tree was found 
useless, they stripped the bark from it, and brought that only; which custom pre-. 
vails at this day, See account of the Cinnamon-tree Pe Dr, Watton, Phil. Trans. . 
yol, 47. 
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