LAURACEAE. 69 
CINNAMOMUM. 
(Family Lauraceae). 
Small aromatic trees:  ever- 
green. Twigs terete, or com- 
pressed at base, moderately stout 
or those developed from buds of 
the season slender: pith rather 
large, continuous, white. Buds 
solitary, ovoid, sessile or prompt- 
ly developing so as to be stalked 
for a time, small and either 
naked or scaly, the terminal en- 
larged and with more numerous 
scales. Leaf-scars opposite or al- 
ternate in 4 ranks, half-round, 
somewhat raised: bundle-sear 1, 
C-shaped: stipule-scars lacking. 
Leaves simple, entire, stalked. 
The camphor tree has become 
frequent as a street tree in south- 
ern cities, where it thrives. 
The true Malayan cinnamon ap- 
pears to be scarcely hardy in the 
United States, but the Chinese cassia-bark tree (C. Cassia) 
is said to stand frost and to be grown as a shade tree, and 
also for its cinnamon-flavored bark, etc., in Florida, where, 
as in southern California, several other species of the genus 
are planted. 
Like many other genera which are confined to the tropics 
today, Cinnamomum was wide-spread in northern latitudes 
when circumpolar cold was less pronounced than it is now. 
Buds scaly: leaves alternate: camphor-scented. 
(Camphor). (1). C. Camphora. 
Buds naked: leaves opposite: cinnamon-scented. 
(Cinnamon). C. zeylanicum. 
